Posted by Mars Hill Blog on 3rd January 2018 in Religion & Spirituality | story,testimony,love,Jesus,words
They say the only good news is bad news and that bad news sells. That’s what we are bombarded with, yet all it does is create fear, frustration, anger… In the same way Testimony can be powerful in building up, but also in tearing down, in creating fear, or faith…
Think of Job’s friends. What did they do? Breed despair and hopelessness? Think of Sanballat and Tobiah with
Nehemiah: trying to dishearten and bring fear. Peter and Barnabas with Paul.
We know psychologically that words are productive, and can create all kinds of responses in us from joy and hope, to fear and doubt. We know that words bring life and not death (Proverbs 18v21). However, we a...
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