John 4:44 (NRSV) For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in the prophet’s own country.
For years, I had a training and development company. One of our courses taught internal consultants how to work with clients more effectively. The inside experts were sometimes dismissed in favor of outside consultants who were usually paid more and deemed to have more expertise, though this was often not the case.
This syndrome is alive and well in our own families. We might think of teenagers who pay more attention to friends’ advice about dating or web articles about how to win acceptance to college than to their parents who are giving them the exact same advice. Sometimes a spouse might ignore advice from a significant other and take heed of the same words said by another. Maybe we need to listen more to the voices around our dinner table, and down our halls, and in our hearts. I believe Jesus would approve.
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