What's a "Gentile"?
What’s a “gentile”? That’s the question that I was asked over and over the other day. I was trying to explain that the Apostle Paul had been called to minister to all gentiles, and I thought I had explained it well enough by saying “if you are not a Jew, then you are a gentile.” Fairly straightforward, right? I was wrong. One girl just kept asking what is a gentile? I was forced to come up with another ethnic label that she was familiar with to explain what a gentile is. I hope she got it. This encounter reminded me of five important lessons I have learned throughout the years. Assume they don't know: Don’t take for granted that your kids know what you are talking about. Just because you covered it before doesn't mean they know or even remember you said it. There are a lot of big words in the Bible, and we just assume that everyone knows what we saying. In reality we have no idea who may be sitting in ...