I know how I am, if there’s no one around, I don’t use my blinker. It just seems like a sensible time saving step in my life.

Yesterday, I was driving to work after dropping my 3 year old off at preschool. The guy in front of me suddenly braked hard and turned right…I had to use evasive maneuvers. I didn’t have any warning and I didn’t see it coming.

On the way home from work, I sat at a stop light turning left (I had my blinker on). The person across the intersection had their blinker on to turn left, so I thought I could go. They went straight, left blinker on the whole time. I had to do much more severe evasive maneuvers. I saw something coming, but it wasn’t what I expected.

Either way, I guess no signals or the wrong signals are sending the WRONG MESSAGE.

In church, we send the wrong signals all the time.

We tell people we love them
We tell them they are part of a community here
We tell them that we’ll be there for them

Then, their sin is too big for us to handle, or we never make the effort to connect…or we just don’t act very loving even though that is supposed to be what we’re all about.

People get hurt. The church looks like a hypocrite. They don’t want anything to do with our message anymore…

Transparency is the only message that matters.

I’m working through this myself right now.