If Christians Were Clocks...

...what kind would you be?




Would you be up in some tower banging away for all to hear, but basically unapproachable and so, mostly ignored but for a passing glance now and then?












Would you be some oddball clock that people mostly laughed at and you told the tale of time?















Would you just hang out with other clocks, seemingly in the world, but really completely apart and unconnected in any way?









Would you be an insistent sort, getting up in people's faces until they listened (and most likely turned you off and went about their business)?










Or would you be on a busy street, providing much needed help to those as they rushed by in their lives? Available, but apart; in the world, not of it. Noticeable and reachable, yet uncompromising in the message you gave out?


Tell me, tell me please, what kind of clock would you be?

Christianity on the Down Low

Do you ever think about how bold you are in your witness for Christ? I know I am falling short of this:

Then they came to Jerusalem. And He entered the temple and began to drive out those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves; and He would not permit anyone to carry merchandise through the temple. And He began to teach and say to them, "Is it not written, 'MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER FOR ALL THE NATIONS'? But you have made it a ROBBERS' DEN."
Mark 11:15-17 (NASB)

Now, I am not saying you should head out with a cat o' nine tails and do some ministry. That kind of action requires real righteous anger, and I am sure none of us are righteous enough to emulate our Lord and Savior on that front.

But you can model Him in proclaiming His coming kingdom. One of the last things Hew said to His disciples:

Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.
Matthew 28:19-20 (NASB)

Jesus definitely did not keep His faith on the down low. Not even close. I just do not think we are doing our job.