IT IS BETTER TO SHOW IT THAN TO KNOW IT
We Decide
A person cannot help it if he/she is a, "know it all," (about everything or almost everything) but he/she can choose not to act like a "know it all."
My observation is, people who need and will accept help from an humble, considerate witness, won't listen to the "know it all," even when he/she is talking about vital issues. Christians do not have the right to be haughty, or to act haughty, since we are sent with God's message and we are directed to deliver that message in humility and love, as a servant to those in need.
Remember, we have been given something that belongs to other people, and we must not be the cause of those people failing to receive God's gift to them.
Romans 1:14
(14) I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.
Dangers
We must never obscure the message of Christ by highlighting other issues.
We must not obfuscate the eternal by aggrandizing the temporal.
We must not obliterate our full effectiveness by grandstanding the insignificant.
We must not obviate the essential by focusing on the incidental.
Choose The Right Path
Obviously, there is no such thing as actually "knowing it all." However, sometimes people believe they do have such a grasp of some subjects that they are convinced within themselves that they have the definitive answer or view on that subject. Rather than fall into the trap of arguing over the trivial, I am just saying that we should focus on the vital. Even if a person is right about certain subjects, it really does not matter in the scheme of things. As Christians, we can win arguments concerning the unimportant things, and lose souls, simply because being right about foolishness was more important than being like Christ.
It is good to ask, "What would Jesus do" in these cases. Sadly, some people either have such a skewed view of Jesus or such an exaggerated view of their importance and status that they insist other people bow to their ideas and understanding.
We Decide
A person cannot help it if he/she is a, "know it all," (about everything or almost everything) but he/she can choose not to act like a "know it all."
My observation is, people who need and will accept help from an humble, considerate witness, won't listen to the "know it all," even when he/she is talking about vital issues. Christians do not have the right to be haughty, or to act haughty, since we are sent with God's message and we are directed to deliver that message in humility and love, as a servant to those in need.
Remember, we have been given something that belongs to other people, and we must not be the cause of those people failing to receive God's gift to them.
Romans 1:14
(14) I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.
Dangers
We must never obscure the message of Christ by highlighting other issues.
We must not obfuscate the eternal by aggrandizing the temporal.
We must not obliterate our full effectiveness by grandstanding the insignificant.
We must not obviate the essential by focusing on the incidental.
Choose The Right Path
Obviously, there is no such thing as actually "knowing it all." However, sometimes people believe they do have such a grasp of some subjects that they are convinced within themselves that they have the definitive answer or view on that subject. Rather than fall into the trap of arguing over the trivial, I am just saying that we should focus on the vital. Even if a person is right about certain subjects, it really does not matter in the scheme of things. As Christians, we can win arguments concerning the unimportant things, and lose souls, simply because being right about foolishness was more important than being like Christ.
It is good to ask, "What would Jesus do" in these cases. Sadly, some people either have such a skewed view of Jesus or such an exaggerated view of their importance and status that they insist other people bow to their ideas and understanding.
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