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It has been 3 days since I was challenged and convicted by the question, “how much do you have to hate somebody to not” tell them what you believe?  (If you missed Sunday night, check out the Penn video on the “current series” tab)  I have not been able to shake that question.  As I have reflected on this past Sunday’s TXT3 Experience, I have also been challenged by the words from the Nickelback video (also on the current series tab), specifically the last line of the chorus, “say it if it’s worth savin’ me“.  How many of our friends or people far from God would say the same thing to us if we held information that could change or save their life?

Say it if it’s worth savin’ me.

Do we feel that our friends are worth savin’?  I hope so.  Somebody thought I was worth savin’.  There is an even more challenging line from this song.  Towards the end of the song we hear these words, possibly from someone who was not lucky enough to be “saved” – “heaven’s gates won’t open up for me, with these broken wings I’m fallin’ and all I see is YOU“.  Let that picture settle in.  Do you have friends that know you are different?  know you go to church?  know you are one of those Christians?  What face will they see when their time is up and heaven’s gates won’t open up for them?  Do we know how to save a life?

So what does all of this have to do with beautiful feet?  In Romans 10:14-16, Paul is expressing his desire for people who don’t know God to be saved.  Then he asks a series of questions starting in verse 14, “but how can they call on him (Jesus) to save them unless they believe in him?  And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him?  And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them?  And how will anyone go and tell them without being sent?”  Do you see the progression in this series of questions?  To be saved they must believe, to believe they must hear, to hear someone must tell them.  Paul concludes in verse 17  that faith comes from “hearing the good news about Christ.”  Is it both awesome and scary that God is relying on His people to tell others this Good News.  Think about that, God chooses to use US to carry this Good News to a world that is crying out “say it to me if it’s worth savin’ me!”  When we do, God declares “how beautiful are the feet of messengers who bring good news!” (verse 15)

How much do I have to hate someone to not tell them what I believe to be good news?

Will I say it to them because it’s worth savin’ them?

Do I know how to save a life?

Do I have beautiful feet?