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Discipleship Focus: Competency
- Competency: Being able to accomplish what one is called to do.
Imagine that you’ve been arrested.
Imagine that the crowds want you dead.
Imagine that you are going to be subject to the political ruling of a
judge that really doesn’t care for theological debates. Do you see how bleak that future is? How would you respond?
How does Paul respond? He
steps up and proclaims the truth. He
certainly knows the future is bleak and the only way out of the hole that he
has dug is to backtrack against the truth.
But he doesn’t want out of the hole.
Paul knows that God has called him into this pit.
This chapter is about competency.
Paul could have capitulated. Paul
could have backtracked. Paul could have
recanted to save his neck. But thank be
to God that Paul is competent! Paul cares
more about doing what God has called him to do than he cares about saving his
own skin.
Paul’s competency is on display.
Before the tribunal he actually makes the situation direr by bringing up
his own Roman citizenship. Before the
crowds he brings up the fact that salvation has come to the Gentiles. Rather than saving his own skin, he riles up
the opposition against him with the truth.
He is competent in his calling.
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