Emphasis Preaching Journal
Ours is a quick fix...
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Ours is a "quick fix" generation. From "Fast Food" to "Jiffy-Lube" our slogan is: "We want what we want now!" This turn of mind is not new; it is as old as a group of scoffers in the early church. They pointed a derisive finger at the Christian community and said: "Hey there! Jesus promised he'd come again, but that was a generation or two ago and nothing has happened." These folk had a mental and emotional problem: they had a wrong idea of time and they possessed little patience. Time cannot be measured in bits; it flows and includes what has been and what will be.