I study constantly. I love it. I need it. Put me in the room with most preachers and I assume to be among the least equipped as well as least informed. There is so much to know. Oddly, with God the more we learn the more we find there remains to learn. He keeps expanding on us.
This would be one reason the legalistic side of the church is so vocal. It does not want to be bothered by facts. Neither does it want to be pressed to learn new ways that would actually come from God. Personal growth seems to carry acute discomfort.
We are not to be a people who are only on the go (for Him); but on the grow.
The growing of faith takes us places. It will not allow us to sit in pews to participate in belly-button religion. Growing faith will call us, challenge us, and convert us again and again.
I've said all of this to get us to awaken to something that, at least for me, I had never given thought. The Muslim faith is full of individuals who are as lazy and indifferent in their religion as some are in ours; not more so than us, but just like us. This means an open door for the name of Jesus.
When we hear of any of an entirely different faith perspective, we tend to see them as devout, strong, aggressive in/for their belief system. But this isn't the case. They have the very same indifference levels that we in the Christian circle note. They have their legalists, their liberals, their moderates, and their "in name only".
Many of these, therefore, are open doors to the message of Jesus.
When encountering any of a completely different faith base, do not assume they would have no interest in Christianity. They not only would, many already have.
May we broaden our reach by opening our minds of what can be. Let others be the judge of whether they accept the nature and message of Jesus. May we not pre-judge causing millions to never get to hear of the God of the Resurrected Jesus and His Holy Spirit.
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