Month: January 2012

Charles Blondin, AKA The Great Blondin, was a 19th century French acrobat and tightrope walker. In 1859 he became the first person to traverse 1100 feet across the 160-foot high gorge beneath Niagara Falls on a tightrope. In a demonstration of his skill, he then did it several more times including being blindfolded, pushing a wheelbarrow, wearing stilts, and carrying a man on his back.

After demonstration of his skill it is easy for many people to believe that Blondin could cross the wire with a person riding on his back.

It is a totally different thing to be trust him enough for you to be the volunteer to be carried on his back across the chasm…

Folks hem haw around when confronted with “how can you say yours is the right way and condemn everyone else to hell”

The thing is, it is not about you or me. It is about the truth of God’s word. It will not be my beliefs and standards or your beliefs and standards that we will be judged by.

It is God’s standard that we will be held to on that day. He has revealed His standard in scripture.

Don’t respond and try to defend “your point of view”, just refer folks to God’s word.

My confidence is NOT in myself, “my beliefs”, or “my way”. It is not about me at all.

Instead my confidence is God’s Word and what truth God has chosen to reveal to us through scripture in a way we can understand.

Don’t hem haw around, remember, this is your opportunity to present the Gospel.