10/21/14 Jaime about 30
"Our
basic problem as men is too many of us are spiritual couch potatoes!" I
told Jaime, a first generation immigrant from Ecuador whom I met while shopping
at a Menards. He had told me he
generally believes in God but leaves church-related issues and teaching his
children up to his wife: "She knows more about it than I do” he had said,
so I continued. “Part of the original
problem in the Garden of Eden is that Adam sat back and said nothing while Eve
was being tempted and deceived by the serpent” (even though Eve had not even
been created yet when God told Adam not to eat from the tree!). “She was first to eat the forbidden fruit but
God held Adam responsible. And as men we
need to take the spiritual responsibility in our family. But how will you teach your children if you
don’t know much about the Bible yourself?”
I told Jaime this in the midst of sharing the Gospel because I think it
is important to realize that our response to the Gospel isn’t just personal –
it has an impact on everyone around us as well, especially the very people we
love the most. This is true for
everyone, but seems to be especially overlooked or ignored by too many men, and
could be just what someone like Jaime needs to wake up to his God-given
responsibility.
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