How to Apply THE GOOD NEWS in real life

So, let's say you're given a playbook for a football or basketball game. Then you listen to the coach go over and over the material in it. But, all you do is listen, read, and memorize it.

What will you do on game day seeing you have never held a football or basketball?

You've never ran any practice drills. You haven't even played a scrimmage game.

But hey, you've listened to the coach, read the playbook, memorized some plays, bought a pair of $100.00 shoes to match your uniform. You look like a football or basketball player. You even sound like one.

The fact is, without applying the information to real life, you'll only reach a certain point.

OK, let's say instead of a playbook, you're given a manual to learn Martial Arts.

But, all you do is read the manual and listen to someone verbally teach it.

How do you think your first match or tournament will go?

How will you respond when you are physically attacked?

To become someone who is skilled at Martial Arts or at least be able to defend yourself,

You would need to not only listen and read,

But actually put on gloves and practice proper striking, blocking, and grappling techniques.

You would need to use pads and gear to spar with others. This way you could begin to understand what it's like to get hit and give a hit.

In this way, you would begin to understand the flow and feel of what you've heard, read, and memorized.

You would find that even the physical exercises were developed to mimic falls, escapes, and so on.

We can't just listen and read about Martial Arts and become proficient at Martial Arts.

We would actually have to apply it in real life.

In the same way,

If you're given a Bible that contains the secrets of Kingdom living, the creation of the universe,

and

Our reason for being, but, all we do is listen, read, or maybe memorize the playbook.

We will undoubtedly only reach a certain point in our relationship with God.

If you're given this manual for sharing The Good News and living a life of freedom in Christ,

But, all you do is listen to it being taught or maybe read through it.

Again, you will only arrive at a certain point.

So many people are trying, striving, and struggling to survive,

Only to fail at life,

Because they haven't read

and

Applied the users manual.

We must become doer's of the word,

and

Not hearers only.

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