Growing in Our World View

“Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were entreating through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.” 2 Cor. 5:20

Unfortunately “pea-sized Christianity” is not a rare disease. If we’re honest, we must admit it affects all believers to some degree.

But there is a remedy. God can kick out our self-oriented walls and open our spiritual eyes to the staggering, compelling view of the world as He sees it.

Bryant outlines some basic, practical suggestions that can transform our telescopic Christianity into a wide-angled thoroughfare of God’s far-reaching plan of world redemption. He calls it “the 5-4-3-2 plan”:

“5 - Spend five minutes sometime each day in personal devotions, discovering something of what Scripture teaches about Christ’s global cause.

4 - Spend an additional four minutes reading current world-related literature such as a magazine article.

3 - Every day take three minutes to carry out a mission to the world through intercessory prayer.

2 - Sometime each day, in personal conversation with another Christian, share for two minutes what God has given you in the previous twelve minutes of building your vision and reaching out in prayer.”

Each of these activities cultivates the soil that will nourish God’s world view.