DO WHAT MATTERS

I do not know where I got this. But for the past month, it has been on the podium where my sermon notes always sit. As I roamed the stage, exhaling brilliant thoughts of the kerygma, exhibiting profoundness in the kerusso through homiletical expertise being proclaimed – this list was before me …

• Your encouragement matters
• Your generosity matters
• Your hospitality matters
• Your kindness matters
• Your service matters
• Your love matters
• Your patience matters
• Your forgiveness matters

These matters are secondary. This lifestyle, while worthy, finds its true worth not in living a certain way, but in following The Way. And The Way is Jesus.

My proclamation, my kerygma, of which I have surrendered my life to serving, to declaring, to sharing, is not about a lifestyle – but about Jesus. That’s the Good News. That’s what really matters.

And you – you can do all the good things – all the noble things – all the right things – but if you don’t believe in Jesus, then all those things mean very little in the eternal scope.

And once you know Him – then this list will be a natural outpouring of Him living in and through you.

That’s doing what matters!

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For a 2 min explanation of what it means to believe in Jesus – check here for a great vid – through the words of a child.

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The list probably came from Christine Caine. Her daily emails often are filled with pithy little lists that often get my mind going from 0 to 60 in under 2 seconds. The video – it is a production of the South Carolina Baptist Convention – great job guys!