Back on Day 12, I shared that I think that honesty and humility are the true essence of faith. I think that they are the true essence sharing faith too.

When it comes to sharing Jesus, I think too many followers of Jesus are paralyzed by fear, frozen by the hypocrite label. Most of us tend to think that to share Jesus we’ve got to have some semblance of perfection in our lives. Since we are not anywhere near perfect, we don’t bother letting people know that we are Christians because we don’t want to be called hypocrites.

When we think this way, we are missing some crucial - our non-Christian friends already know that we are not perfect. They are not surprised when we mess up. In fact, they may be a little amused by it. It is only when we *pretend* to be perfect that we run into trouble.

If we are honest and humble enough to admit our imperfections, we become channels through which God’s grace flows. If we apologize for an unkind word, if we admit our frustrations and discouragement, if we say we are sorry, we embody the honesty and humility that are the essence of faith. People are not attracted by perfection - who can be perfect? People are attracted by honesty and humility.

Can you be honest?
Are you humble?
If so, you are the kind of person through whom God will make his appeal!

Have any thoughts about this?