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Barbs …. With A Point

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Categories: Church of Christ Bulletin Articles

The following barbs of wisdom come from The Sword and Staff publication, 2010, Volume 48, Number 2; pg. 13 (appropriate Scriptures and related articles have been added):

  • The law of use and disuse: We lose that which we fail to use (Matthew 25:24-29 NKJV).
  • Many people’s lives are empty because they have never put anything into them (Matthew 25:24-30 NKJV).
  • If we send a mixed message to our children in the way that we live, they will be mixed up about what matters in life.
  • As a person gets further and further away from God, he gets further and further away from those who are living close to God (1 Corinthians 15:33 NKJV).
  • It seems that some people who are careless couldn’t care less (Romans 1:21-32 NKJV).
  • Entertainment is not worship; neither is hilarity or play worship (Exodus 32:6 NKJV; cf. 1 Corinthians 10:7 NKJV).
  • Nothing succeeds like success, and nothing fails like failure (compare Judges 7 NKJV with Jeremiah 22:18-30 NKJV).
  • When the social aspects of church, along with entertainment, mean more to you than sound doctrine (2 Timothy 1:13 NKJV; 2 Timothy 4:3 NKJV; Titus 1:9 NKJV; cf. 1 Timothy 1:10 NKJV; 1 Timothy 6:3 NKJV) and the spiritual, you have a spiritual problem.
  • We must empty ourselves of self before we can be filled with the Holy Spirit (Matthew 16:24-25 NKJV; Ephesians 5:18-19 NKJV; Colossians 3:16 NKJV).
  • God made us with one mouth and two ears — that should tell us something (James 1:19 NKJV; cf. Ecclesiastes 5:1 NKJV).
  • Compromise, involving right and wrong, never solves problems — it only compounds and complicates them.
  • We should live so close to God that there is no room for the devil to come between us (Genesis 6:9 NKJV; 2 Kings 20:3 NKJV; Micah 6:8 NKJV; Malachi 2:4-6 NKJV).
  • You can expect irrational results to come from irrational actions that have been brought on by irrational thoughts (cf. Matthew 26:14-16 NKJV;.Matthew 27:3-5 NKJV).
  • When we play church, we besmirch the name of the church (James 2:1-9 NKJV).
  • So many churches are so full of the world, that you can’t tell where the world stops and the supposed church begins (cf. Revelation 2:1-5 NKJV; Revelation 3:1-6 NKJV).
  • No unreasonable act has a reasonable explanation (cf. Exodus 32:19-24 NKJV; Acts 5:1-11 NKJV).
  • When we become tolerant of wrong, it may be an indication that we have become too tolerant of wrong within ourselves (Isaiah 5:20 NKJV).
  • People who lie a lot, pretty soon begin to believe their own lies (Acts 5:1-10 NKJV).

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