One of my favorite quotes is from Del Tackett, "Do you really believe that what you believe is really real?" When I first heard that thought, I had to pause and ask myself what do I really believe? If I believe in something, has what I believe become a part of my reality. More to the point, is what I believe expressed in how I live my life. I'm reminded of Paul talking to Timothy and saying to him, "faith without works is dead." Dead Faith? Am I among the "Walking Dead", people that say they believe but their life is not a reflection of that belief.
Coming back to my last post on "people", if I believe because of my Biblical Worldview that me loving people is no longer a choice but rather something I believe to be true, or better yet an expression of my faith, than shouldn't my life be an expression of that belief? Before we can be on mission with people we need to wrestle with our belief towards people. There is a verse in scripture where Jesus is being questioned about the law. I can imagine as the Pharisees and Sadducee's kept hearing Jesus confront their paradigm their questions became more frequent and more pointed. This is one of those times when Jesus took their question in stride and answered a ten part answer with two, love God and love your neighbor. This brings us full circle to my point, do we love, like, stand people? If we are going to be on mission with people we need to face the honest reality of that question. What is your answer?
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