Insights Magazine: February 2012

February 2012

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SED UT perspiciatis UNDE JESUS!

When

Words Get in the Way

in this issue 3 Confusion Charles R. Swindoll

pressure points

6 Jellyfish Ministry

Steve Johnson

“But all this

changed

when I read through the Bible for myself.”

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9 When the Bible is Offensive

Steve Callaway

STRONG FAMILY

12 How to Cross Communication Barriers Scott Tolhurst

laughing matters

14 Creamed by a Dairy Truck

Phil Callaway

Help Me Understand

17 Forgiveness Insight for Living Canada

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One of the toughest assignments in life is to communicate clearly what happened during a time when emotions were high.

People who “fall in love” can hardly describe it. Those who went through a calamity or experienced a sudden loss often convey the information in a confused manner. The same is true for people who were involved in car accidents.

The following is a series of actual quotes taken from insurance or accident forms. Believe it or not, they are the actual words of troubled people who tried to summarize their encounters.

Coming home, I drove into the wrong house and collided with a tree I don’t have.

As I approached the intersection, a stop sign suddenly appeared in a place where no stop sign had ever appeared before. I was unable to stop in time to avoid the accident.

The other car collided with mine without giving warning of its intentions.

My car was legally parked as it backed into the other vehicle.

I thought my window was down, but I found out it was up when I put my hand through it.

An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my vehicle, and vanished.

I told the police that I was not injured, but removing my hat, I found I had a skull fracture.

A truck backed through my windshield into my wife’s face.

A pedestrian hit me and went under my car.

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The pedestrian had no idea which direction to go, so I ran over him.

The guy was all over the road; I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him.

I saw the slow-moving, sad-faced old gentleman as he bounced off the hood of my car.

I pulled away from the side of the road, glanced at my mother-in-law, and headed over the embankment.

The indirect cause of this accident was a little guy in a small car with a big mouth.

The telephone pole was approaching fast. I attempted to swerve out of its path when it struck my front end.

I had been driving for 40 years when I fell asleep at the wheel and had an accident.

I was on my way to the doctor’s with rear end trouble when my universal joint gave way, causing me to have an accident.

“As non-Christians strain to follow our words, I wonder how many of them must wonder what our religious gobbledegook is all about.”

Are those unbelievable, or what?

The amazing fact is that each report was made by some sincere, serious individual who tried his or her best to be clear and concise. Emotions have a way of smearing the lens of logical thinking and precise communication.

It often happens to Christians when we share how we were “born again,” or how we became “new creatures” in Christ. As non-Christians strain to follow our words, I wonder how many of them must wonder what our religious gobbledegook is all about. We think we’re communicating clearly, but we’re not. We toss out terms familiar only to the “in” group yet foreign to non-Christians. (And then we blame the listener for not being interested!) Our secret language calls for a decoding process. How much better to talk in a plain, believable manner so the Spirit of God can make a new Christian!

Peter advised, “Always be ready to give

an answer to anyone who asks about the hope you possess” (1 Peter 3:15 NET).

Take that as an assignment from God. Always be ready! See if you can write out in one, non-technical, cliché-free paragraph the hope within you, or your salvation experience, or how someone can know God in a meaningful and intimate way.

Jesus took on this challenge when He spoke with a Jewish judge named Nicodemus. And if you remember, even though our Lord was painfully simple and the rabbi was awfully bright, Nicodemus still struggled as he tried to understand Christ’s words. Believe me—combating confusion is quite an assignment, especially when the emotions of the heart cloud the expressions of the mouth.

It’s not that many have never heard . . . it’s that they’ve heard and been confused by our verbiage.

Our job? Make it clear!

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by David Edmonson

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Pressure Points

Jellyfiish

Ministry

by Steve Johnson

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Recently while in Cuba I walked along a beautiful beach and came upon a jellyfish that had washed ashore. It seems high winds and strong currents had pushed hundreds of them toward the shore with many being cast up on the sand to await death.

I bent down and, careful so as to not be stung, gently pushed the jellyfish back into the water. As I did I thought of the story of the young man who, like me, had walked along a shoreline and—instead of jellyfish—tossed washed-up starfish back into the ocean, one at a time. When questioned by a passerby as to the futility of trying to save the hundreds of beached starfish, the young man simply answered, “I made a difference to that one.”

I like to think I made a difference to one or two jellyfish that day.

When I consider our Christian responsibility to be salt and light, transform culture, and make a difference in our world, I hear lots of rhetoric about the broad generalities of what Christians as a whole should do in standing up for justice and truth in society, about the big picture and large-scale movements.

I believe there is a place for that and some Christians are called and placed in positions to make a large impact in our society and world. But I can’t help think this isn’t the norm for most.

The majority of us are not placed in those high-level positions. Nor are we called upon by the Lord to make a largescale impact. Like me with the jellyfish, or the young man with the starfish, we

are called to make a difference to whoever crosses our path as we walk through life.

But I don’t see that happening. And it may be due to how we think about a thing called ministry.

Somewhere along the line subtle shifts occurred in our thinking about Christian ministry. One shift occurred regarding the person who does ministry. In much of our thinking the position of pastor and minister are synonymous. We think of our pastors as the ministers who minister by teaching, leading, counselling, and visiting. We think our part is to gather in the church building and be ministered to as if that was the end in view. Then we return to our daily lives for the week and leave ministry in the hands of the professional minister.

“We are called to make a difference to whoever crosses our path as we walk through life.”

Another shift occurred regarding the place where ministry takes place. When Christians began to build church buildings the thinking became that ministry takes place within the four walls of the church building. When people think of finding a place to minister they usually think of ushering or teaching Sunday school or serving somewhere in some program in the church building.

I think we’ve got it wrong.

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life and ministry (Acts 2:42-47; Eph. 4:12) and then sent out to minister as they lived their lives in the daily grind. The Bible teaches that every believer is a minister, gifted by the Lord uniquely to minister as we go through life. And while some ministry happens in a church building, it’s not the primary place for it. Ministry takes place out in the world where we live.

In the familiar story of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:30-35) it was the Samaritan, with his somewhat different culture, “as he traveled” that he ministered to and impacted the broken and bruised man. It was in the course of carrying out his daily life

and business that the Samaritan ministered and made a difference. He didn’t transform his culture that day, but he made a difference to the life of the broken man. He was a minister, ministering to his neighbour, a man who crossed his path.

It is that ministry kind of approach to life by Christians that will transform our culture. The world will not know we are Christians by our buildings, programs, drama, or music. However, they will know we are followers of Christ and be won to Him and transformed by Him because of our love and ministry to them.

We need to set our sights on ministering and making a difference to those whose paths we cross each and every day—the unbelievers we work with, who live next door, who come into our lives.

Even the small things we do to minister while living our lives can show love to those the Lord brings across our path.

These are the things that impact and transform culture little by little and one life at a time.

Just like that jellyfish.

Steve Johnson is the executive director at IFLC.

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When the Bible is

Offensive

by Steve Callaway

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The Bible is offensive! Come again, you say. If you, like I was, were a frequent Sunday school attendee in your formative years this statement may be shocking.

The Jesus I met there was a slightly effeminate blonde flannelgraph figure who spent His spare time hosting hilltop luncheons, burping babies, calming storms, and handing out healing and happiness like lollipops all the while emitting a strange radioactive glow.

But all this changed when I read through the Bible for myself.

While Scripture does paint a picture of Jesus as meek and mild, we also get a glimpse of an edgy, gritty, and yes, offensive Jesus.

A Jesus who resembles a cage fighter more than an Oompa Loompa. This Jesus called religious people dogs, snakes, and hypocrites.

He cursed fig trees, and instructed people to pluck out their eyes and cut off their hands if they couldn’t control them. He told crowds of people to eat His flesh and drink His blood, and seemed fairly set on the idea that those who reject Him will suffer eternal conscious torment in hell.

Offended yet? Wait. I’m not finished.

The oppression of women is depicted from Genesis to Revelation. In Leviticus, God’s people slice up animals by the cattle car then sacrifice them. Genocide shows up in Joshua, followed by corporal punishment, rules upon rules, and graphic violence. It culminates in Revelation when all hell breaks loose—literally—and God rains down plagues and disasters and starts tossing unrepentant sinners into the lake of fire.

Are we on the same page now? Good!

Which leads me to the question we’re all asking: What do I do when the Bible offends me?

Here are a few tips that may be helpful:

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Consider the possibility that the Bible isn’t saying what you think it is.

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might not be as bothersome if you do a little research. For example, slavery in the biblical context was indentured servanthood—nothing like the racially oppressive slavery that existed in early America. If we feel offended because the Bible doesn’t seem to condemn slavery, we must understand, as the biblical writers did, that the practice of slavery in the ancient Near East wasn’t so broken that it couldn’t be transformed by the power of the Gospel.

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Remember, you are a product of your culture.

If God stands over and above culture, then His words will contradict every culture at some point. In the West we tend to view the Bible’s sexual ethic as narrow and restrictive but we’re big fans of its emphasis on grace and love. But visit Saudi Arabia—where ankles are intolerably promiscuous and the idea of a gracious and loving God is absurd—and the model is flipped. When the Bible offends you, stop and ask, “Where are my heart and mind better informed by my culture than by this book?”

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Take a close look at your heart.

I’m a sinner. The Bible tells me “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” (Jer.17:9 KJV). So often the offended party within us is really the sin so deeply enmeshed in our hearts. If God lives in us, we are no longer in slavery to sin, but sin still informs our thoughts and desires. So examine yourself and ask God to reveal the areas where your heart resists His word.

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Don’t ignore the fact that you are offended.

That’s right. Allow the Bible to offend you.

If Scripture throws you an uppercut, take it square on the jaw. Let the offence sink in.

Then ask yourself: “Why am I offended?” God can use this process to transform you.

Emile Cailliet was an agnostic and intellectual, who came to a crisis of belief during World War I. A Bible found its way into Cailliet’s hands and when he began to read it he was so shocked at the way Scripture spoke into his broken condition he began to call the Bible, “the book that understands me.”

Are we, like Cailliet, allowing God’s word to understand and critique us, or have we, in our quest to understand the Bible, appointed ourselves judge over it?

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Remember the greatest offence of all: the cross.

That emblem of suffering and shame, the most repulsive, toxic, and offensive event in history resulted in the greatest of all possible goods. When the Bible offends you remember the offence, which transforms you. Cling to the knowledge that God would rather offend you than leave you in slavery to your sin and shame.

When the Bible offends you, remember the cross.

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arenting is a crash course in cross-cultural communication. If you want to communicate across the barriers of language, age, or context, don’t take a seminar—have a child!

Quickly, after children make their entrance, parents know what they want by deciphering the code of gurgles and coos. A novice might think translation becomes easier as our children grow, but then we enter the pre-teen and teen years. Parents pick up on cryptic phrases and become familiar with hip talk. Be warned: knowing hip talk does not (as every teen will attest) make parents hip.

We may understand the culture but not be part of it!

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you the street smarts of building cultural bridges. So, what if the same foundations we discover in our home can form principles for communicating outside the home? Every believer faces the challenge of presenting unchanging truth to a culture that morphs every 15 minutes. We are to convey Christ across the canyons of age, nationality, language, gender, cultural bias and spiritual blindness. There is no doubt the truth of Jesus can transcend every canyon, but are we equipped to carry Him well? Perhaps our parental experience can equip us to effectively acquaint our surrounding culture with the Gospel.

How? Consider these principles:

Look for points of connection.

Every parent has uttered the phrase, “When I was your age....” Despite the rolled eyeballs from our teens, the words attempt to create common ground for conversation. The same holds true in speaking Jesus with our neighbours. There is common ground between us. To bridge a cultural divide, look for common territory.

Remember a bridge touches both sides.

Say what needs to be said.

Hear what needs to be heard.

Parents learn early—if they speak only what children want to hear important stuff gets left out. Our message may not always be their choice but it is their need. So too we can be confident in the Gospel message we convey. It is a Word of rescue and hope even if it is not embraced quickly. Speak with authority, but an authority wrapped in the gentleness of listening. Parents find more of their message is heard when they do some of the listening. Evangelists find the same.

Don’t just speak—explain.

When my children didn’t get what I said to them I just said it louder. It didn’t work. I found that I needed to use more words and perhaps different words, and not just in language familiar to me. It took more time, but it achieved more.

When we present truth to our friends, we ought to re-shape Christian speech into verbs and nouns, which carry meaning instead of clichés.

Don’t say everything.

Moms know the wisdom of sparse language. They don’t have to tell a toddler about the chemistry of combustion to warn about matches. When we carry the Gospel, we tend to bring a wheelbarrow.

We dump all of it at the feet of our friends and think we have been effective by our exhaustive presentation. It may be that a little goes a long way when targeted to specific needs.

Make sure your life is connected to your lips.

With my kids it didn’t matter what language I used, how gentle my tone, or how witty my lecture. If my life contradicted my lips, everything was undone. There is no greater way to blow up a cross-cultural bridge than to dynamite it with hypocrisy.

How do I speak Jesus to the different sounds, looks, and behaviour of the cultures around me? Good parenting can instruct us. The home is training for our larger world. You may say that bridging barriers within the home is easier because of our love for family. I agree. Love is the motive and means. So, what if we loved the unsaved more? It can only help.

Scott Tolhurst is pastor of Richmond Bethel MB Church, Richmond, BC.

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Laughing Matters

by Phil Callaway

I wish you could meet Jim and Jean Southworth. They’re

my kind of people. No one understands better than the Southworths that no matter how tough things get there’s always light at the end of the tunnel. Even if it’s coming from the headlights of a truck.

At 5:30 one morning, Jim, Jean, and their three children were sound asleep inside their home on a peaceful residential street in Salem, Oregon. Their eldest son had just poured himself a drink in the kitchen before heading back to bed.

On a nearby hillside, the Curly’s Dairy guy rolled his van to a stop for a routine delivery. But when he returned, his mouth dropped open in horror as the van took a turn for the worse. Down the hill it went, backwards and gathering speed. The van jumped a few curbs and took out a maple tree. It flattened some shrubs and toppled a picket fence. Finally, it levelled the Southworths’ front porch and crashed to a halt in their darkened kitchen.

“It was like a bomb went off,” recalls Jim, a dentist. When his wife Jean saw the mess, she did what any homemaker would do: She cried over a spilt milk truck. But when she saw the slogan on the van staring out at her from the ruins of her kitchen, the tears vanished. “Here Comes Curly,” it said. And Jean started to laugh.

When the dust settled, Jim talked Curly’s out of three gallons of ice cream, though he said he would have preferred a year’s worth of milk. Jean wasn’t so sure she wanted Curly’s delivering anything to her house ever again. After all, the front porch was totalled. The eating nook was toast. And the front door? Well . . . no one quite knew where it was.

Insurance covered the $15,000 damage, and Jim and Jean decided the time was right to do a little renovation.

“Our remodeller said we saved on demolition costs,” laughs Jean, “although they don’t normally use Curly’s for that. We’re wondering about the poor driver. He’s probably in therapy. We hear that Salem customers cower in mock terror at approaching dairy trucks.”

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story on the front page of the newspaper, but we were left wondering why our reaction was considered so unusual as to be newsworthy at all. That’s the way it’s supposed to be, isn’t it? After all, we’re Christians. We’re supposed to practise love and forgiveness.”

Nowadays people in Salem call Jean “the ice cream lady,” but she doesn’t mind. “Pulitzer prize winners know what the first line will be in their obituaries,” she smiles. “At my funeral I’m sure somebody will say something about “When we live life with the day we got creamed by a dairy thanksgiving, people truck.”

For the Southworth’s, life is a lookoutside—and inside—the ing glass. Frown into it and it will Church will notice.” frown back at you. Laugh with it and you will find it a kindly companion.

“When we first heard the crash and They believe when we live life with thankssaw the crumpled walls of our house that giving, people outside—and inside—the morning,” says Jean, “we thought this was Church will notice.

“No matter what happens to us there’s the end for all of us. But once we realized we’d only been smashed into by a delivery always something to be thankful for,” says truck, we calmed down. Our entryway and Jean. “In our case, God protected us. The kitchen nook were destroyed, but our kids Curly’s truck could have easily come into our were OK. That’s what matters. Besides, bedroom instead of the kitchen that morning. Besides,” she laughs, “My husband is a what good would getting upset do?”

Did they consider a lawsuit? “Never,” dentist, He’s used to filling cavities.” says Jean. “But we were surprised at how Phil Callaway is the author of To Be Perfectly Honest. Visit him many wanted us to. It was fun seeing our at laughagain.org house. First they convinced Curly’s Dairy to park a truck out front. A handmade sign instructed the driver where to park: “Please park IN FRONT of the house not INSIDE the house.” In the flower beds, another sign read, “Danger. Runaway truck zone.” Through the truck window a Curly’s manager served up eight flavours of ice cream. And in the kitchen 67 guests gathered to browse through the accident photos.

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FORGIVENESS

FORGIVENESS There are times I wonder if I really understand “I can’t forgiveness and times where I know I don’t. For the most part I tell someone who has done me wrong “I forgive you,” and really forget it can mean it. Where I have trouble is when that person has wronged happened.” someone I love.

How do I forgive those who walk out on their families? And those people who hurt defenceless children? And what about those who talk maliciously behind others’ backs? How am I supposed to just let that go?

I know the Bible says keep no record of wrongs, and that revenge is for the Lord alone, but it’s really hard to forget about the bad things people have done. And what about the bad things I’ve done? I know I deserve death for the sins I’ve committed—how can God possibly forgive me for all the times I’ve rejected Him? And how can I live in that forgiveness when I can’t forget the things I’ve done?

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Our Problem — We live in a fallen world. With the introduction of sin our relationship with God was broken. A sin nature now in all of us means relationships are fragile and easily destroyed. Sinful acts, attitudes, and even just regular events of life can be catalysts for offences requiring forgiveness.

God’s Answers — God tells us to forgive as He has forgiven us (Eph. 4:32). Before seeking to forgive others, reflect on God’s forgiveness of you (Rom. 5:8). To forgive like God means to forgive: 1. Completely (Matt. 18:27). To forgive means to cancel a debt. Something owed is not owed any more. Once cancelled the right to seek repayment is given up.

2. Repeatedly (Luke 17:4; Matt. 18:21-22). Just as we continue to sin but God continues to forgive us, there is no point at which our sin becomes unforgivable. We must continue to choose to forgive.

3. Sacrificially (John 3:16). Forgiveness is costly. Somebody must pay. When we forgive as God forgives and let the offender off the hook, we may have to suffer for the cause of following Christ’s example.

4. With a view to reconciliation (Hos. 2:14-15, 11:8; Rom. 12:17-21). Just as God not only forgave our sin but reconciled us to Himself and restored the relationship when we repented, so the end in view is not just forgiveness of the offender, but reconciliation and restoration when they repent.

The Solution

1. “Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins“(1 Pet. 4:8). At the root of

all forgiveness is love. Many day-to-day offences can and should be overlooked easily. But if the offence is too big to overlook then deliberate action is needed.

2. Resist the desire for revenge. Let go of the need to see the offender punished. Release your desire for revenge to the Lord (Rom. 12:19).

“With the introduction of sin our relationship with God was broken.

A sin nature now in all of us means relationships are fragile and easily destroyed. ” 3. Forgiveness is a choice. It is a deliberate act of your will not based on feelings. Feelings follow choices. Therefore we must decide and choose to release, let go of, and cancel the debt or offence against us.

4. Keep choosing to forgive. From time to time things will trigger the memory of the offence. We may be tempted to revisit and dwell on it. At that point we must remind ourselves that we forgave the offence already.

5. We can forgive and be emotionally healed from the hurt. In order for there to be emotional healing we must continue to forgive (as in #4), and commit to not allowing ourselves to dwell on the offence, talk about it with others, or allow others to bring it up to us. Only as we do this for a long enough period of time will we experience emotional healing where we no longer feel our stomach churn when we remember the offence. by

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