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God Talk
February 24, 2008 - Ian
“Only one person has ever spoken to me about God at refreshment time after
church”. This comment was made to me recently by one of our members at Don Bosco.
That is very sad. Has that been your experience? And how often have you
mentioned God in your after church conversation?
I want to challenge us all, including myself, to talk about God more, especially
in the safe confines of church morning tea/refreshments at All Saints. After
church is a safe time when we are with people who have similar thinking to us,
after all they attend the same church. We have talked about God for the last
hour, sung about him, sung to him and talked with him and even heard from
him....So why end there? Surely God is worth talking about more than one hour
per week!
Could we not, when talking with people, also involve some talk about God? Like
asking, “How has God been good to you this week?” rather than asking “Was it a
good week?” If you are following up on an issue that you have talked about last
week, why not ask “Has God answered my prayers about...... (the issue)”? This is
also an incentive to make sure that we do pray!!!
The more we do it in the comfortable surroundings of church, the more likely we
might talk about God in the other life situations, where it might be harder.
Jesus talked about not hiding your light under a basket... (read Matthew
5:14-16) If we really are captivated by God then we will want to talk about him
and not be ashamed. But maybe we are ashamed?
Indonesia is a very religious nation and yes there is a fanaticism and so I
understand some hesitancy in talking about God but Indonesia is a culture where
asking about one’s religion is a comfortable, culturally appropriate question.
Maybe our real hesitancy comes from something else?
My original after church speaker continued to challenge me... “it is sad that
Jesus gets left out”. I agreed with her. For it is easier to talk about “God”
because God means different things to different people yet ‘it’ can all be
called ‘God’ without too much offense! But Jesus...well yes, here there is less
misunderstanding about the ‘term’.
I would rather we talked about Jesus, after all we are Christians, Christ’s
people and we of all people should be talking about Christ Jesus. But let’s
start with what is easier.
Try talking about God after church this Sunday.
Ian
Comments
It seems like I'm the one of those who are
rare talking about God after church. Sometimes we even talk about negative
things about people surround us. It's a bad behavior indeed, but we still enjoy
doing that. Thanks Ian, for reminding us to talk more about God. It's much
better than gossip.
Posted by Lidia on Thursday, February 21, 2008 at 05:25:41
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