Secret Sauce and 7 questions

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What is your go to secret sauce?

Ketchup? Ranch? Horse radish? Maybe its your own secret sauce… mine is Horse radish, ranch and Ketchup… 

 

John Wesley was so concerned with building a righteous fellowship that he devised a series of questions for his followers to ask each other every week. Some found this rigorous system of inquiry too demanding and left. Today, the very idea of such a procedure would horrify many churchgoers. Yet some wisely follow just such a practice. Chuck Swindoll for example, has seven questions that he and a group of fellow pastors challenge each other with periodically: 

1. Have you been with a woman anywhere this past week that might be seen as compromising?
2. Have any of your financial dealings lacked integrity?
3. Have you exposed yourself to any sexually explicit material?
4. Have you spent adequate time in Bible study and prayer?
5. Have you given priority time to your family?
6. Have you fulfilled the mandates of your calling?
7. Have you just lied to me? 

The questions are important, but i want to challenge you with the humility it would take to answer these honestly.

 

I saw a post on FB yesterday that said

2 Chron. 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

 

Wicked = disagreeable. 

The irony of this person post with this verse is that they are the ones who constantly post about politicians and hate. They have to constantly point out what the other party does wrong and why their leaders are disgusting liars etc…

Where is the humility? Everything you post is disagreeable - 

 

Humility is “I am a sinner, no better than the President, the vice president, the KKK, the Democratic party, the Green Bay Packers, the thugs the rich, the fat, the ugly the spiteful and the guy who just cut me off… I am saved by grace. 

Humility is loving others because we understand that its only his love that changes us… not our hate. 

 

For God so hated the world that he pointed out everything that people do wrong.

 

Remember 1 Corinthians 13:4-5 4 Love endures with patience and serenity, love is kind and thoughtful, and is not jealous or envious; love does not brag and is not proud or arrogant. 5 It is not rude; it is not self-seeking, it is not provoked [nor overly sensitive and easily angered]; it does not take into account a wrong endured. 

 

It takes humility to do this.

Life taste so much better with humility.