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cul-de-sac christianity
By Tony Evans
Sometimes I get the impression that when we ask God to bless us, we for- get the full de nition of a blessing. We forget that God doesn’t want us to be cul-de-sac Christians where all of our blessings end with us. God wants us to be conduit Christians where all of our blessings extend through us to others.
For example, when God blessed Abra- ham in the Old Testament, we read that He said, “Indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your
seed shall possess the gate of their en- emies. In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
God said that He was not only going to bring His favor on Abraham but that His favor on Abraham would extend out to be a blessing on others as well. God never designs our blessings to stop with us, but our blessings should always ex- tend to others.
For His Kingdom, Tony Evans
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