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 the audience or what they know. Break it down: