For those who follow my content online and watch my podcast, I want to share something with you. This past week has refined my focus in a way I didn’t expect. I believe I can honestly say my focus has always been gospel centered from the beginning, but there have still been times when I allowed myself to be distracted by secondary topics. At the start of this trip, I opened to Psalm 119, and my eyes locked on the verse that says, “Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things, and give me life in your ways” (Psalm 119:37). That verse kept playing in my mind all week, over and over again. Throughout the week, we saw people who were in desperate need. Desperate need of the Gospel. Desperate need for hope. Desperate need for encouragement and love. Do you know how many people I saw who were in desperate need to debate the timing of the rapture? None. How many needed to settle whether Mary was sinless or a perpetual virgin? None. How many needed me to critique some preacher or pastor from another country? None. And yet, when I opened my phone, that was almost all I saw, Christians in the U.S. debating who is right or wrong about things that may or may not happen tomorrow. Arguing over what someone else believes. Battling over opinions. Chasing controversies that have no bearing on anyone’s salvation. “Avoid foolish controversies… for they are unprofitable and worthless” (Titus 3:9). What is wrong with us? You would think that, having all the things we need, food, clothing, water, shelter, we would take that blessing and use it to reach the lost. But instead, many of us sit in comfort and argue about ourselves. I’m not saying everyone needs to move to a developing nation, but why are there so many Christians online who are bold and vocal in arguments but completely absent from local shelters, charities, communities, and/or food banks? If it is something that benefits them personally, more knowledge, more confidence, more assurance, they run to it. If a revival sparks up, they run to it. If a popular preacher gains notoriety, they will spend everything to go hear him. But why is it that we run so quickly to what benefits self, but we do not run to the ones who need us to bring hope and comfort? Why do Christians sprint to experience or witness a miracle, but won’t go down the street to BE a miracle for someone else. Jesus said, “I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me” (Matthew 25:35). He called us to love in action, not just in discussion. Paul wrote, “Let all that you do be done in love” (1 Corinthians 16:14). Where is that love when the hurting need it most? So Lord, keep my eyes from worthless things. Do not ask me about random Christian content creators, teachers, or influencers. Do not ask me about trivial topics. If you want to know something that has nothing to do with salvation, then study it for yourself. “Study to show yourself approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth” (2 Timothy 2:15). Let’s stop wasting time. Let’s stop making noise about things that do not save. Let’s fix our eyes on Christ, run with urgency toward the broken, and give them the only message that brings life. The Gospel. #christian #christianity #christianitytiktok #christianfyp #christiantiktok - @truechristianministry