The One Thing

Luke 10:38-42 

In his book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey coined the phrase, “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”

1.     The “one thing” is natural.

Either you have it or you don’t.  If you don’t have it, you can get it, but if you have it, you can lose it.

2.     The “one thing” is necessary.

We need to discover that we cannot be so busy FOR Jesus that we neglect to be WITH Jesus.

Do you remember in ’Alice in Wonderland,’ Alice asked the cat, "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" The cat answered, "That depends a great deal on where you want to go." Alice said, "Oh, I don’t much care." "Then it really doesn’t matter which way you go," says the cat.

General Motors, AT&T, and IBM each spend more on the education and training of their employees than the combined educational budgets of all eight Ivy League universities. Just as a business depends on the continuing development of its workers; the Church needs its members to be continually sharpening and improving their discipleship skills. Executive Speechwriter Newsletter, Vol. 10 No. 4 

3.     The “one thing” is narrow.

Too many churches/people are doing too little for Jesus because they are trying to do too much.

An Italian proverb says, “Often he who does too much does too little.”

Business consultant Nido Qubein says, “Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.”

Philippians 3:13-14