A golf course can be a strange, new world to House People.
When a person spends his time in the great indoors, with his personal computer, television, cell phone, iPhone, Skype, emails, and hugging the air conditioner, entering a golf course for the first time can be culture shock.
Suddenly, the person is looking at nature for the first time, up close and personal. He is walking on real grass, he sees real bark on trees instead of the bark on his HD television. He sees and hears birds and squirrels. Perhaps a black snake will slither along a pea patch and disappear. He sees the roots of trees, stumps, rocks, and hears the sound of trickling water in a creek. Up in the sky, he will see a hawk searching for lunch, or a flock of Canadian geese flying in formation. Often, too, he will hear the sound of his own golf ball splashing in a lake. The heat of the sun is also burning his naked arms, for he has never had a suntan. And just as suddenly, he realizes that this is not ESPN, for now he is experiencing the wonderful, colorful world of God's creation---and he is most uncomfortable. At which time he will excuse himself at the earliest opportunity to trot along home and return to his comfort zone.
In like manner, the knowledge of Christ is a strange, new world for people who have never heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ---especially for Church People, who have found church to be no more than a comfort zone. They like the atmosphere, they like the pews, they like people being nice to them, and they like a nice, tender message from the minister who speaks softly and with a warm voice, after which they can say "Amen", shake the preacher's hand, and trot along home.
"How was your golf game, honey?" asks his wife.
"Oh, about the same."
"How was church, honey?"
"Oh, about the same."
When "Oh, about the same" is always the same response, you can be sure that everything was oh, about the same. Nothing has changed, and nothing is new.
Just as golf is a strange, new world for beginning golfers, so is the name of Christ to people who have never met Him for the first time: for Jesus is just a stranger, just as golf is a stranger.
Many people have heard about golf, but they have never played the game.
Many people, also, have heard about Christ, but they have never accepted His name. But when people accept Christ as Savior, they do, indeed, enter a strange, new world---a world that gets better and better as the days go by---and their lives will never again be: "Oh, about the same."
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When a person spends his time in the great indoors, with his personal computer, television, cell phone, iPhone, Skype, emails, and hugging the air conditioner, entering a golf course for the first time can be culture shock.
Suddenly, the person is looking at nature for the first time, up close and personal. He is walking on real grass, he sees real bark on trees instead of the bark on his HD television. He sees and hears birds and squirrels. Perhaps a black snake will slither along a pea patch and disappear. He sees the roots of trees, stumps, rocks, and hears the sound of trickling water in a creek. Up in the sky, he will see a hawk searching for lunch, or a flock of Canadian geese flying in formation. Often, too, he will hear the sound of his own golf ball splashing in a lake. The heat of the sun is also burning his naked arms, for he has never had a suntan. And just as suddenly, he realizes that this is not ESPN, for now he is experiencing the wonderful, colorful world of God's creation---and he is most uncomfortable. At which time he will excuse himself at the earliest opportunity to trot along home and return to his comfort zone.
In like manner, the knowledge of Christ is a strange, new world for people who have never heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ---especially for Church People, who have found church to be no more than a comfort zone. They like the atmosphere, they like the pews, they like people being nice to them, and they like a nice, tender message from the minister who speaks softly and with a warm voice, after which they can say "Amen", shake the preacher's hand, and trot along home.
"How was your golf game, honey?" asks his wife.
"Oh, about the same."
"How was church, honey?"
"Oh, about the same."
When "Oh, about the same" is always the same response, you can be sure that everything was oh, about the same. Nothing has changed, and nothing is new.
Just as golf is a strange, new world for beginning golfers, so is the name of Christ to people who have never met Him for the first time: for Jesus is just a stranger, just as golf is a stranger.
Many people have heard about golf, but they have never played the game.
Many people, also, have heard about Christ, but they have never accepted His name. But when people accept Christ as Savior, they do, indeed, enter a strange, new world---a world that gets better and better as the days go by---and their lives will never again be: "Oh, about the same."
www.bible.com
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