AHA: Brutal Honesty
Southeast Christian Church
Published on 07/17/2011
The first ingredient is a sudden awakening. We suddenly realize what we somehow missed before—our eyes are opened and we see. Most of us have had moments like that—we recognize something that weve never noticed before. But where do we go from there? The second ingredient of Aha is Brutal Honesty—we tell the truth about ourselves. Aha doesnt happen if there is just a sudden awareness—there must also be repentance, where we speak the hard truth about what weve done, what weve believedand thats hard. In the Parable of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15, the son is brutally honest about three things.