{"id":158,"date":"2020-09-22T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T23:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/js1cd06kre.onrocket.site\/?p=158"},"modified":"2020-12-02T20:05:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T01:05:50","slug":"false-advertising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/22\/false-advertising\/","title":{"rendered":"False Advertising"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The woman in the silver SUV laid on her horn.  And closed in on the bumper of the guy in front of her.

She was exasperated by his not-one-mph-above-the-speed-limit pace.    

As they approached the next intersection, the light turned yellow.  Instead of accelerating, the guy in front hit his brakes.  The woman pulled onto the shoulder, absolutely committed to getting past this snail.  \u201cIdiot!\u201d she yelled as she raced through the red. 

Within seconds she saw the flashing lights of the state trooper\u2019s car in her rear view mirror.  She pulled over.

\u201cPlease get out of the car, ma\u2019am,\u201d he said. \u201cDon\u2019t make any sudden moves, and put your hands where I can see them.\u201d 

She was trembling now.  \u201cOfficer,\u201d she said, \u201cwhat’s happening?\u201d  \u201cYou\u2019re under arrest,\u201d he replied.  \u201cFor running a red light?\u201d 

\u201cWell,\u201d he said, \u201cafter seeing your Honk If You Love Jesus<\/em>, Follow Me to Sunday School<\/em>, and Jesus is My Life Savior<\/em> bumper stickers, and watching your behavior in traffic, it seems pretty obvious you stole this car.\u201d

No, that didn\u2019t really happen. 

But you can be certain that on a daily basis plenty of people are shocked by the Grand Canyon-sized gap between what followers of Jesus say and how they actually live. 

In his book When the Game is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box<\/em>, John Ortberg writes:  \u201cThe world gets pretty tired of people who have Christian bumper stickers on their cars, Christian fish signs on their trunks, Christian books on their shelves, Christian stations on their radios, Christian jewelry around their necks, Christian videos for their kids, and Christian magazines for their coffee tables but don\u2019t actually have the life of Jesus in their bones or the love of Jesus in their hearts.\u201d 

The world has never been in greater need of people whose lives reflect the Savior they claim to follow. 

By God\u2019s grace, let\u2019s make sure we aren\u2019t arrested for false advertising. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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