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Just had this great thought about life as a segway. (not the 2 wheel machine that Job rides in Arrested Development…)

Not sure where it’s going yet, but I like it! The transition of one subject to the next – of birth to death…

It’s deep man.

Here’s my further thoughts – 04.02.2008

Well, I was thinking about service leading at church and how to make a smooth segway between different parts of the service.

And then I was thinking about how there’s a real art to making a smooth segway in conversations with people. And if you don’t have segways everything just seems disjointed and awkward. Like someone blurting out “I love turtles” when everyone else is talking about their favourite cafe in Sydney… Saying I love turtles is all very good and valid, but… there’s a time and a place. And if everyone’s talking about aquariums and you segway to turtles, it’s all good!!

It’s like this when we’re talking about Jesus. 90% of evangelism is all about steering the conversation towards Jesus so we can segway to the gospel.

Life is full of segways…
And life is kinda like one big segway… trying to make a smooth transition from birth to kingdom come.

I think this thought has been mostly influenced by the Bible’s wisdom literature, which I’ve been reading a lot of lately as we’ve been preaching through Proverbs at church.
Wisdom literature is all about navigating your way through life well and making that smooth segway.

Of course, at the heart of wisdom literature – living the wise life – is “the fear of the Lord” which is the beginning of wisdom (Proverbs 1:7; 9:10; Ecc. 12:13; Job 28:28).

A successful life segway begins with “the fear of the Lord” – that is, by trusting the God who created, controls, and sustains all life, and who we can only know through Jesus as revealed in the Bible.