Alright followers, so I was looking back through my journal at notes I had taken from sermons over the past couple years and I found one from a couple months ago from Watermark (a non-denominational church in Dallas) and it really convicted me and the way I thought about my faith..soo I wanted to share it with y’all!!!
The basis of this sermon was about bad advice and that you can’t drop your friends, even if they don’t believe the same things you do or have the same morals as you. The sermon went on to explain why, in fact, you should consider another option…to actually try to reach out to them in faith.
The way they explained it is you have three circles of people in your life: the core, the comfort, and the care circles.
The Core: The core circle is the people in your life that believe what you believe and hold the same moral values as you. They are the people that you can always go to for good spiritual guidance when you need it.
The Comfort: The comfort circle is the people in your life that you were friends with in school or socially; people that you may know on a surface level, but who might not hold the same morals as you or might not believe in the same things as you.
The Care: The care Circle are people you know (friends or not friends) that no matter how hard you try to reach out in faith and talk to them, you are never successful and you feel defeated walking away from the conversation (You’re atheist friends and other non-believers)
The way the pastor explained that to get to the point where you can reach out into the different concentric circles, you should think of your faith as an oak tree.
Strange right? Why would anyone compare their faith and spiritual life to a tree?
Well how do trees grow?
Trees, when they grow, they don’t just shoot up and spread their branches. Nah, they first have to take root in a firm foundation to get the support before they can branch out and later drop their fruit.
Thats what I want. To have such desp roots in my faith that it doesn’t matter how far my branches need to stretch to reach those that need to hear the Good News.
That is the thought I wanted to leave with y’all. How deep are your roots?
