Pay Up!

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  “Everything we do has a toll attached to it. Waiting around is a tax on traveling. Rumors and gossip are the taxes that come from acquiring a public persona. Disagreements and occasional frustration are taxes placed on even the happiest of relationships. Theft is a tax on abundance and having things that other people want. Stress and problems are tariffs that come attached to success. And on and on and on. There are many forms of taxes in life. You can argue with them, you can go to great—but ultimately futile—lengths to evade them, or you can simply pay them and enjoy the fruits of what you get to keep.” (Ryan Holiday)

Top Ten Reasons NOT to Share Your Faith with (fill in the blank)

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10. Satan does not want me to.

“Behold, I give you authority . . . over all the power of the enemy.” (Luke 10:17-19)
“Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world.” (1 John 4:4)

9. (fill in the blank) does not believe in hell.

“I am He that lives, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive forevermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.” (Revelation 1:18)

8. (fill in the blank) will think I am stupid.

“He who wins souls is wise.” (Proverbs 11:30)

7. (fill in the blank) thinks I am intolerant.

“Jesus said to him, ‘"I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.’” (John 14:6)

“And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved." (Acts 4:12)

6. (fill in the blank) knows the scripture better than I do.

“You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me.” (John 5:39)

5. (fill in the blank) said he was saved already, but believes Christianity is fake.

“They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, so that it would be shown that they all are not of us.” (1 John 2:19)

4. (fill in the blank) thinks the Bible is a bunch of fairy tales.

"'These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things which are written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.' Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.” (Luke 24:44-45)

3. Believes in God . . . that's enough.

“You believe that God is one, you do well; the demons also believe, and shudder.” (James 2:19)

2. (fill in the blank) is too hard to witness to.

“For the love of Christ compels us.” (2 Corinthians 5:14).

1. (fill in the blank) is a good person.

“There is none good but one, that is, God.” (Mark 10:18).

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