Saying vs. Doing

A famous anthropologist said, “What people say, what people do, and what people say they do are entirely different things.”

That’s a good observation for us as Christians to consider. We talk a lot about the need of prayer. We may even read books and attend seminars about prayer. But how many of the 1,440 minutes God gives you each day do you actually spend in prayer?

We hear messages regularly about the need to share our faith in Christ. We enjoy missionary stories about what God is doing in a foreign country. But when did you last take time to actually talk to an unsaved person about their spiritual condition? How long has it been since you handed out a Gospel tract?

Consider again the quote, “What people say, what people do, and what people say they do are entirely different things.”

If that’s true for you, you might need to work on redeeming the time.

Rick Grubbs is best known as the host of “Redeeming the Time,” a one-minute radio program featured on hundreds of radio outlets around the world. He has spoken thousands of times on Biblical time management in all 50 states and 26 other countries. He is the author of the book “Morning Momentum: God’s plan for launching an unstoppable day”. He and his wife Carrie live in Salisbury NC with several of their 12 children.

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