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Know Our Hearts?
When we started our marketing firm years ago out of insane faith and obedience and nothing else, my constant battle for “doing things right” and communicating our message effectively oftentimes turned into an ogrelike persona. I was known for saying “know my heart.” But the reality was that it was near impossible to “know my well-intentioned heart” while my tone and delivery were tyrannical at the best of times—causing my employees to often walk away in tears. I had a marketing problem with myself. My actions spoke much louder and more clearly than my heart did.
That’s pretty much how it will always be, though. It’s because man looks on the outside. (1 Sam 16:7 ... man looks on the outside, but the Lord looks on the heart.) The only one who sees through our delivery to our heart is God. If you’ve been in any form of leadership, you’ve learned that those you expect to “know your heart” fail to do so time and time again.
Here is something to think about: if the seasoned Christians around us have a hard time seeing through our actions to our heart, how much more intentional must our actions be for those outside our church walls? They don’t know our hearts and are often skeptical and distrusting of us from the beginning. All of their personal experiences have worked for years to shape their perception of us as Christians and of our churches.
What is your church doing to change its perception? What are you doing personally?
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