The Bible On Trial

Get a Gtip~

When beginning to learn to play golf the most critical thing that a person must learn is to place your hands on the club in such a way as to be able to make a solid an productive swing. If your hands are not comfortably place on the grip with just the right pressure you can not hope to have the golf ball land in the fairway or on the green. Getting a good grip is so important it is the very first thing every golf instructor works on with their students in order to insure a secure foundation for the swing.

We have all had friends (certainly not us) that have succumed to a sense of panic when they were faced with a stressful situation. At that critical moment when a decision MUST be made when faced with DIRE consequenses you might say to them, "Get a Grip!" This means that just as with golf that person needs to go back to the basics and reassess the situation without the debilitating emotion of fear of the result.

When a psrson is faced with a 'new' truth for the first time, a truth that is diametrcally different from what they already 'know' to be true, their first reaction may be to lash out in fear against the person that revealed that truth to them. This is especially true when it comes to religious and spiritual identity, as in the case when they are first told about the problems with salvation model of the Apostle Paul. It is at this point that you must GENTLY tell them to 'Get a Grip' on the words of Jesus that He gave to His own eyewitness disciples. It is ONLY through those words that a person can realize that there is nothing actually to fear from learning the truth about salvation, because perfect truth casts out all fear. 

Jesus brought the truth from the Father to this earth in LOVE, for it is the Love of the Father for His Kingdom that caused Him to send His only Son to testify to the truth (John18:36-37).  This is how we 'get a grip' on Truth!