O.K., it's official, I am old and fat. This information hit me like a ton of bricks yesterday. I have been running with Mysha's Cross Country team, (which is where the fat part comes in), and we were trying to teach the kids about speed and determination. The coach and I tried to come up with examples of this to illustrate to the kids about what we were talking about. First we tried to use Carl Lewis, which was met with blank stares. Then we tried Michael Johnson, still no connection. Finally, we mentioned Usain Bolt and Tyson Gay, then the knew what we were talking about. Then it dawned on me that most of these kids weren't alive or old enough to see or know Michael Johnson or Carl Lewis (That's were the old part came in). They had never experienced their awe inspiring feats of speed and grace on the track. We had to find a way they could understand and not insist they go home and pull up footage of these two so they could understand what we were saying. We had to relate with them.
Today, we live in a highly unchurched popluation with people who do not know Jesus or the things He did. We are speaking to them of redemption and atonement and they don't have a clue of what we are talking about. Too many times we insist they go home and figure it out on their own but we need to be able to speak their language. We need to show them of what we believe and not try to make them just figure it out somehow. If we don't tell, who will?
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