The Values Effect

What if you viewed every single person you ever meet as someone for whom Christ died for?

How would that change your perspective?

Better yet, what if you viewed every single person you ever meet as someone who is good, competent, and knowledgeable?

That would take a bit of a stretch with some people… 

But, nonetheless, what if you viewed everyone as good, competent, and knowledgeable?

How would this view change you? 

How would that affect your actions and reactions, your encounters with other people?

Romans 15:14 says, 

"I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers,[a] that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another.

Does that impact you at all? It should!

If you take this view of people then, how you view your spouse should be changed for the positive, how you view your children should be altered, how you view your co-workers should be impacted by this, how you view your neighbors should be affected significantly, and, church, how you view the people that come through your doors should drastically change

Just think, if you could allow the Holy Spirit to so alter your vision that when you encounter someone new, you don’t see color or ethnicity, you don’t see style of clothes or brands, you don’t see socio or economic differences. But, instead, you see people who are created by God to be good, competent, and knowledgeable. How would that change things for you? 

I would argue that it should cause you to enter into serious reflection and self-awareness, to develop solid core values based on the central idea that everyone is someone whom God created and for whom he died. How you live your life from this realization forward should take a dramatic turn and mean so much more than it did beforehand.