The Tipping Point
This Week's Theme: Being a Server
Friday, May 4, 2001
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Key Bible Verse: I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you (John 13:15).
Bonus Reading:John 13:3-17
Earl Palmer, in a fine little book entitled The Enormous Exception, tells the story of a premed student at the University of California, Berkeley "who became a Christian after a long journey through doubts and questions." When Palmer asked the young man why he had chosen Jesus Christ, he answered that what had "tipped the scales" in his spiritual journey were the actions of a classmate who happened to be a Christian.
During the previous term the premed student had been very ill with the flu and, as a result had missed ten days of school. "Without any fanfare or complaints," his Christian classmate carefully collected all his class assignments and took time away from his own studies to help him catch up.
The premed student told Palmer, "You know, this kind of thing just isn't done. I wanted to know what made this guy act the way he did.
I even found myself asking if I could go to church with him."
Palmer says, "I think the best tribute I ever heard concerning a Christian was the tribute spoken of this student. 'I felt more alive when I was around this friend.'"
Chuck Swindoll in Simple Faith
Respond:
Does anyone ever wonder why I am so unselfish, so thoughtful, so caring?
Thought to Apply:
True heroism is
undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
Arthur Ashe (late tennis pro)
Adapted from: Simple Faith (Word, 1991)
For your convenience, Simple Faith is available in the ChristianityToday.com bookstore. 1 of 1
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Jesus, help me to be more like You. Give me a heart of love for my friends, family and people who are lost and hurting.
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