…so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light (I Peter 2:9).
Show and tell. Sounds simple enough.
Every kindergartner knows the process. You bring something to school and then tell the class what it is. What it means to you. How it works.
A few years ago, I sat at the head table when veteran lineman Frank Warren was inducted into the New Orleans Saints Hall of Fame. His agent paid tribute to his star player.
We live in Dallas. I’ll never forget the day my five-year-old son took Frank Warren to his school for show-and-tell. Frank flew to Dallas just to do that for my child.
I sat there not quite believing my ears. This football player went to all the trouble of flying from New Orleans to Dallas for no other purpose than accompanying a preschooler to kindergarten for show-and-tell.
No wonder the agent was still speaking of it, years later. Who would not remember that?
A few years back Henry Blackaby spoke to Louisiana Baptists about post-9/11 life for Christians in America.
After 9-11, business as usual would be an affront to God…. So far, we are not being the salt and light God intended…. We have had very little effect on this society.
It should matter to every Christian that the world around us ignores us, that it does not take us seriously, and even scoffs at our faith.
We have no one to blame but ourselves.
AMC-TV was running the movie “Shawshank Redemption” twice each night. I finally sat down and watched it, the first time since it appeared maybe 20 years earlier. It was easy to see why it’s so memorable and even loved. The roles played by Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman wedge themselves in our consciousness and will not turn us loose without a struggle.
As a Christian, however, I was highly offended by the warden in that prison called Shawshank. He quoted the Bible, preached its platitudes, and then was guilty of the harshest brutality and greed. He even ordered murders to protect his criminal enterprise. All the while, Bible verses were displayed prominently and the man’s Bible was a major actor in the story.