Ok, so ‘Narrow-mindedness’ can actually be a good thing at times, right?
If you have no idea whatsoever what I am talking about, check out yesterday’s post here.
Ok, you with me? Good.
Well then, how did being narrow-minded get such a bad rap? Jesus tells us that the only way to join Him in heaven is, in fact, a narrow way—not a highway.
So narrow’s good, right?
And God’s Word tells us in various places not to fall victim to those who teach a different gospel, another way, or any combination thereof.
So narrow’s good, right?
But when is it bad?
When we miss God’s best because we are to narrow-minded—that’s when.
- When the Messiah finally came to earth (that’s Jesus) most missed Him because their ideas of what the Messiah needed to look like were far too narrow-minded.
- When the Pharisees, zealots, Sadducees, scribes, and Herodians all voted to have Jesus put to death because He wouldn’t walk the party line, they were being far too narrow-minded.
- When churches today see their attendance and level of life transformation shrink to next to nothing it is because they are often being too narrow-minded about how church should be done.
- When believers never experience miraculous movements of God in their midst it is often because their faith has been stunted by the sin of narrow-mindedness (yes, if misused, it’s a sin).
- When we overuse the phrase, “But we’ve never done it that way before!” — we’re being far too narrow-minded.
- When we EVER use the phrase, “That will never work!” We are being very narrow-minded.
If you don’t agree wit this series; you are being too narrow-minded!
I’m just saying!