"An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the
success of whatever he or she undertakes." - Victor Kiam
It is very common - lately I've discovered - to find people everywhere,
who will only want to identify with the good, or benefits ONLY in any
venture, but not with the consequences. As a result we are faced with a
situation where we only have 'members' those who just belong, instead of
'believers,' people who are down with the full package.
A number of years ago Norman Cousins wrote an editorial in Saturday Review in which he reported a conversation he had on a trip in India. He was talking with a Hindu priest named Satis Prasad. The man said he wanted to come to our country to work as a missionary among the Americans. Cousins assumed that he meant that he wanted to convert Americans to the Hindu religion, but when asked, Satis Prasad said, "Oh no, I would like to convert them to the Christian religion. Christianity cannot survive in the abstract. It needs not membership, but believers. The people of your country may claim they believe in Christianity, but from what I read at this distance, Christianity is more a custom than anything else. I would ask that either you accept the teachings of Jesus in your everyday life and in your affairs as a nation, or stop invoking His name as sanction for everything you do. I want to help save Christianity for the Christian."
Do you really believe in 'Jesus Christ,' or the name is just an exclamation to you? Do you take his principles from His Word to the letter, or you still have an opinion, on what He's already answered? Do you 'go to church' or you're 'The Church'? Are you just a member, or you're indeed a believer? Search your heart today, and decide.
A number of years ago Norman Cousins wrote an editorial in Saturday Review in which he reported a conversation he had on a trip in India. He was talking with a Hindu priest named Satis Prasad. The man said he wanted to come to our country to work as a missionary among the Americans. Cousins assumed that he meant that he wanted to convert Americans to the Hindu religion, but when asked, Satis Prasad said, "Oh no, I would like to convert them to the Christian religion. Christianity cannot survive in the abstract. It needs not membership, but believers. The people of your country may claim they believe in Christianity, but from what I read at this distance, Christianity is more a custom than anything else. I would ask that either you accept the teachings of Jesus in your everyday life and in your affairs as a nation, or stop invoking His name as sanction for everything you do. I want to help save Christianity for the Christian."
Do you really believe in 'Jesus Christ,' or the name is just an exclamation to you? Do you take his principles from His Word to the letter, or you still have an opinion, on what He's already answered? Do you 'go to church' or you're 'The Church'? Are you just a member, or you're indeed a believer? Search your heart today, and decide.
Let us pray: Father, I want to be a believer help me in Jesus name.
WISDOM NUGGET: Mark 10:29-30
"...But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time..." - KJV
"...But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time..." - KJV
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