Spiritual Transitions from Dark Chocolate vs White Chocolate
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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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- So, as we do each week, we try to give a different spiritual transition where we're going to transition from something that is put into the chat room there during our live show into a transition from that to the gospel.
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- This is a way we practice the transitioning of the natural to the spiritual world. You saw that with Jesus, right?
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- He'd talk about the woman at the well, he'd talk about the water, and then he'd transition that into a spiritual message.
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- Can we transition from the topic today, which is dark chocolate versus white chocolate, from that to the gospel?
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- That's actually kind of easy. See, because white chocolate is white, it's pure, therefore it must be good.
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- Dark chocolate, well, you see, what they have to do to get people to eat dark chocolate is say it's healthy for you.
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- Because white chocolate doesn't need marketing gimmicks like that, because white chocolate just is good.
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- If you could only hear... So, the reality is that we know that anyone who's intelligent must like white chocolate better.
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- It's kind of like a smart car, they have to call it smart because you kind of have to be dumb to drive it because it's a death box if you get in an accident, right?
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- They call smartphones smartphones because, well, you know, people have to be dumb to use them, right?
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- Okay, now I'm getting myself in trouble. Okay, so here's the thing. How would I transition from white chocolate versus dark chocolate to the gospel?
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- It's very simple, actually, because here's the difference between white chocolate and dark chocolate. White chocolate is extremely sweet, and in all honesty, probably not so good for you.
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- Dark chocolate has got that bitter taste to it, but it's probably better for you.
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- You know, when I think of the bitter taste of it, sometimes it takes me back to the book of Jeremiah, where Jeremiah wrote
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- God's word and God told him to eat it. And he ate it, and it said it was sweet at first and then bitter in his stomach.
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- Now, the reason he did that was it was part of a judgment on the nation of Israel, but, you know, that makes me think about the fact that there's sin in our lives that caused the same bitter judgment.
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- You see, sin at a time when we first get to, we first engage in it, gives us an immediate pleasure, but that pleasure doesn't last because following the pleasure is that bitter guilt.
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- You know what that guilt is there for? That guilt is there. God has given us the blessing of guilt to know right from wrong.
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- It's called a conscience, so that we would know that we are out of favor with him, that we've broken his law, and that we must get right with him.
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- And that conscience is a gift from God so that we would fall on our knees and bow before the
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- Holy God and get right with him. I still think white chocolate is better, just saying.