Thought Quotient

We’ve heard a lot today about Apple’s iPhone and how it is all things to all people. The apostle Paul echoed some similiar words many years ago.

In 1 Corinthians 9:20-22, Paul wrote: “To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might win those who are under the law; to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law; to the weak I became as weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.”

“Being all things to all people” does not imply deception. Contrary to the spin that detractors attempt to put on this passage, Paul never said, “I told Jews I am Jewish and I told gentiles I am gentile and I would tell anybody anything if it would make them believe in Jesus.”

“I became as” means that Paul adapted his demeanor, behavior and expression. When Paul spoke to people, whether they were Jewish, gentile, weak, strong or whatever, he purposed that they would not be hindered by feelings of inferiority or superiority. Paul was able to meet and speak to all people as equals no matter what their position. He always actually was what he appeared to be-on the level with the person to whom he was speaking.

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Passion 07 came to a close in downtown Atlanta last Thursday afternoon. Though more than 22,000 college students made their way home and Passion Conferences began looking at future gatherings to reach students around the globe, a legacy of compassion and mission-minded purpose was left behind.

Speaking to students at the gathering’s closing, Passion Conferences founder/director Louie Giglio said, “Colossians 1:6 says, ‘All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit.’ The same changing power in your lives is working all over the world. This gospel is bearing fruit and growing, and we can see that in what you’ve done through the Do Something Now campaign.”

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