What's on Your Placard?
From 1 Corinthians 2 – 1 and I, brethren, what I came to you, did not, with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God. 2 for I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. 3 I was with you in weakness and trembling. 4 And my speech and my preaching were not persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5 that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
In the Ken Burns Baseball documentary, longtime Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodger Vin Scully has a confession. Some have marveled at the calm restraint he exhibited with the simple call, “Ladies and gentlemen, the Brooklyn Dodgers are the champions of the world.”Scully said this was an illusion. “I couldn’t have said another word without breaking down.“
Paul points to much the same root of message discipline, recognizing one's own weakness. In fact, a friend tells me the word Paul uses when he says that Christ and Him crucified were his only message is the word for placard when the Gospels indicate the message above Christ's head on the cross.
Do we sufficiently account for our own weakness when we consider what to convey to others? If we consider it Satan's way, our pre-prepared elevator speech, our placard, if you will, will convey what we trust in about ourselves.
If we have come to the reckoning that Paul has under the conviction of the Holy Spirit, we will recognize how quickly our words are superfluous. Our pointing to Christ and Christ alone on the placard we hold before the world will be our single message because we recognize its power in our own lives, and the comparative worthlessness of every other gospel.
In the Ken Burns Baseball documentary, longtime Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodger Vin Scully has a confession. Some have marveled at the calm restraint he exhibited with the simple call, “Ladies and gentlemen, the Brooklyn Dodgers are the champions of the world.”Scully said this was an illusion. “I couldn’t have said another word without breaking down.“
Paul points to much the same root of message discipline, recognizing one's own weakness. In fact, a friend tells me the word Paul uses when he says that Christ and Him crucified were his only message is the word for placard when the Gospels indicate the message above Christ's head on the cross.
Do we sufficiently account for our own weakness when we consider what to convey to others? If we consider it Satan's way, our pre-prepared elevator speech, our placard, if you will, will convey what we trust in about ourselves.
If we have come to the reckoning that Paul has under the conviction of the Holy Spirit, we will recognize how quickly our words are superfluous. Our pointing to Christ and Christ alone on the placard we hold before the world will be our single message because we recognize its power in our own lives, and the comparative worthlessness of every other gospel.
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