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THREE RISKS AND THREE BENEFITS OF BEING VULNERABLE

This week on the blog I am reposting an article from a few years back. You may have noticed that the past month has been pretty quiet in my little corner of the internet here. There have been many reasons and many factors.

However, in the vein of being…ahem…vulnerable…

I am going to take a small hiatus for the summer from content creation. Honestly, it is simply because I am tired. The last year has taken its toll on me emotionally, physically, and spiritually. My annual study break starts in July. I have a speaking engagement in a couple of weeks. Plus, next week my mom and dad will be here.

All great things.

All needed things.

All reasons I am going to take to rest, replenish, and recalibrate.

I will be back in August with brand new content. Don’t go anywhere. I promise, I will be back with and for you. Sometimes though, you just have to take a break to get better. With that said…here are the risks and benefits of being vulnerable. WHAT WOULD YOU ADD?

RE-POST: FIVE RESULTS WHEN CHURCHES GET HONEST

If someone challenged you to choose three words to describe Jesus, which would you pick?

Righteous?

Compassionate?

Loving?

All those would be good choices, but here’s another description that doesn’t usually make it to the top of our list.

Honest.

Jesus was honest. He told a woman caught in adultery, “Go and sin no more.” He called the Pharisees and Sadducees “a brood of vipers.” To their face.

Jesus didn’t mince words. He said, “I am the bread of life. . . . Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. . . . the one who feeds on me will live because of me. . . . Your forefathers ate manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever.”

His teaching was so new, so fresh, so honest, that some who followed him walked away (John 6:35-60).

That happens today, too, when we tell people the truth about Jesus. Some turn and leave because they can’t handle the demands Jesus makes on our lives. But many more, hungry for the truth, can’t resist Jesus when we’re honest about him. And that’s only one of five results I’ve seen when churches decide to be honest.

Trevor DeVage

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