Spiritual Transitions from Scotch Tape to the Gospel
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One of the most difficult things for people when witnessing is the
transition from the natural to the spiritual. This is a game we created
to help sharpen those skills. This is a fun game for people with adults
or youth groups.
To play the game you call out a person and name something for them to transition from and they have to transition from that to either a spiritual conversation or the gospel.
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- As many of you know, this is where we try to do our Spiritual Transition Game before each one of our
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- Striving for Eternity Academy classes. The Spiritual Transition Game is where we're training ourselves to transition from the natural to the spiritual.
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- So when we're sharing with individuals about any topic, we're training ourselves to be able to get into gospel conversations or spiritual conversations.
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- The topic that was given for me to transition to today is
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- Scotch Tape. Now, how would you transition from Scotch Tape to the gospel?
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- Well, there's actually a couple of different ways I'm thinking of it. But unfortunately, the thing that's come into my mind, as horrible as the thought of this is,
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- I just can't help it. Because I was watching America's Funniest Videos, and one of the videos was kind of where they took some...
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- Well, you know, you just hate guys that actually are dumb enough to video this. But a guy that was letting his...
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- a woman, maybe his wife, remove his chest hair. And so they put some chemical on it and stuck this
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- Scotch Tape and just kind of put layers of it on and just ripped it right off.
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- I don't know if the hair came off, but he definitely came out of his chair and was falling on the ground, kicking his legs.
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- It was very funny to see. But the idea is that it's probably not what
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- Scotch Tape was designed for. But you see, that's what people tend to do.
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- They try to make one thing fit a solution for everything, don't they?
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- They want to take Scotch Tape and make it the answer for everything. I mean, some people are going to use it for hair removal.
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- Yikes! Some people put it on their eyebrows and rip those hairs off, maybe.
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- I don't know. Some people actually use it for what it's meant for, like taping two pieces of paper back together.
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- Or you rip something and you want to tape it back. But the reality is that a lot of people use things like Scotch Tape for things it's not meant for.
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- You know, that is exactly the problem that many people have with religions because they use works like Scotch Tape incorrectly.
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- Do you know that God commands us to do good works? But the problem is,
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- He doesn't command us to do good works to earn righteousness. No, He tells us after we have been given righteousness, then we do good works.
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- Those good works are after we're already in a right state with God. But many people use works incorrectly because they try to use works to earn righteousness.
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- And good works do not earn righteousness. In fact, when someone argues for good works, it is one of the most disgusting things to God because they're saying, here's
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- God who came to earth, died on a cross. Almighty God, Eternal God, dying on a cross for a payment for sin.
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- And someone's going, ah, but look Lord, I walked an old lady across the street. Really?
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- You think that the good works that you do aren't any comparison to the good work that God did?
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- No comparison. It's even more disgusting than the picture of putting Scotch Tape on your chest hair and ripping it off.
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- As disgusting as that thought is, someone trying to offer their good works to God in place of the work that God did is even more disgusting.
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- That's why in Isaiah it says that God looks at your good works like filthy rags.
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- That's how wicked God sees it. That's how we're going to transition that one.