Talk is a multi-gazillion dollar industry. Facebook, twitter, email, texts, phones, television, movies all have one thing in common…people talking. But catch the very last verse of the Gospel of John, “Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.” He didn’t say Jesus said many other things (which I am sure he did) but that Jesus did many other things. Too often we get caught saying without doing. Saying something is certainly a lot easier than doing something but at the end of the day it isn’t what we talked about that will matter, it is what we did.
So let us not be consumed by unproductive conversation. Rather, let us be busy doing the things that have to do with eternal life. Imagine if you did one thing for the kingdom before you allowed yourself one tweet, blog post or facebook comment…What might this world look like? Which is more important vs which do we spend our time on?
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The Gospel of Mark suggests ‘yes’
The Gospel of Matthew suggests ‘no’
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Good post
Seems like the English translations leave out all of the kai’s out of the Gospel of Mark. They are all over the place. Look at it…every verse from Mark 3:1-9 starts with Kai https://www.scripture4all.org/OnlineInterlinear/NTpdf/mar3.pdf
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