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2 Neighbors talking. One is a heart surgeon and one is a world famous mechanic who works on some of the fastest cars on earth. Why do you make so much?

 

We as humans have a strange obsession with thinking we know more than the other person… Now we may not know as much as a heart surgeon, yet we will second guess why they do what they do, how they do it, when they did it… We assume that if we knew as much as him we would do it differently.

 

Have you been president? No? then shut up. 

 

People have become experts because they can type, fact check on the internet and hit enter.

 

Pressures no one knows.

My father from a large church talked about the pressures no one really understood.

130 plus staff members.

Trying to keep them all focused and in healthy relationships.

Dealing with Money

Dealing with the expectations of EVERYONE IN THE CHURCH

Keeping the church on track with the vision

 

 

THE RECIPE 

What does it take to make an assumption?

Incomplete information

Others opinions 

Your past experiences and expectations 

Your own sense of self righteousness 

Others skewed assumptions shared with you

Plus a lack of empathy and self awareness 

 

 

We are so arrogant- myself included when we assume and second guess others. Jesus was judged by the pharisees on just about every move he made, word he said and deed he did. 

But you know what the pharisees never did… they never took time to know him. Its so much easier to judge then to jaw with them. 

Believe it or not it was the Fonz (Henry Winkler) who said assumptions are the termites of relationships. 

 

 

Here is your test, get to know those who you don’t like. Pray for those you don’t like, ask God to bless those you don’t like. IF you have an assumption about someone- stop right there and get to know them. 

 

You want to assume something… assume that satan loves to plant seeds of judgement and assumptions because they grow into hate and apathy and they multiply at an incredible rate - did you just hear that? 

Why? Because lies multiply and thats all assumptions are… they are lies we tell ourselves.

The truth rests on a solid foundation… Assumptions are like tribbles… 

And finally You no longer care about the persons soul… you only care about their faults. 

 

You know the saying “when you assume you make an ass out of you and me”. Well thats the real problem- we have no fear whatsoever if we malign someone else’s reputation… we don’t mind making someone else look like an ass.

Would Jesus?