Washington, DC Metro Station on a cold January morning in 2007.
The man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time approx. 2 thousand people went through the station, most of them on their way to work. After 3 minutes a middle aged man noticed there was a musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds and then hurried to meet his schedule. A child stopped to listen but was pushed along by his mother, in a hurry. Several children that came by stopped, but were all hurried along by their parents. Some people dropped money into his case without stopping or looking. He made $32 in total.
No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the greatest musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, with a violin worth $3.5 million dollars. Two days before Joshua Bell sold out a theater in Boston where the seats averaged $100.
This is a true story. Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and people's priorities.
How much are we really missing? Is everything we know the way it really is? Do we ever really think about the things we believe or have been taught?
The two thousand people walking past Joshua Bell probably felt that a man playing at a metro station was nothing to think about....he must be a nobody, right?
People are too comfortable with their beliefs and how they were raised to think for even a moment that they could be missing something. Unfortunately, though, most are wrong about what they believe and will never look for or accept THE truth. Religious people carry their bible to church, put it on the dashboard, or place it on the bookshelf without ever searching through it to see if what they believe or have been taught is really true. Religious people believe that Christianity is the right religion without having any proof of it.
DON'T trust that your preachers, parents, bible teachers, or friends are teaching truth. They may not even know that they are teaching falsely...but we CAN know if we search the scriptures.
How many times have you been to church or bible study and left with no intention on checking those teachings out? We all need to do this with other teachings that we hear, as well as our own....even in the church. I've heard false teachings come from the mouths of some members of the Lord's body, and they will be accountable for that.
People in the religious world fail to see that there is such a thing as false teaching. The bible talks about false teachers, which implies that some teachings are false. That's not only in the religious world as a whole, but also in the "christian" belief.
Don't know how to understand the bible? Look at some rules for bible reading/understanding here.
Here's your challenge: Search the scriptures daily!! (Acts 17:11) Go to church on Sunday and Wednesday and take notes on what you hear, whether you agree with them or not. Go home and look it up!
Proverbs 14:12 "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death."
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