Titles or Integrity?

   A Coca-Cola Bottle.  Picture one in your mind.  What should be inside an unopened Coca-Cola bottle?  This is not a trick question.  There should be Coca-Cola in it.  Right? 

   Why?  Because the label says “Coca-Cola” on it, it is dark in color and you trust that Coke is a trustworthy company, doing what they say.  If the soda pop label says, “Orange,” you believe that what is in the bottle is not Coke but rather orange soda and it looks orange in color.

   So if I switch out the Coke and put water in it or a different soda pop, it should still be Coke on the inside because the label says Coca-Cola.  Maybe it is a new kind of Coke formula that is being used.  It has to be Coca-Cola in the bottle because the label says Coca-Cola. 

   Now you may feel I am crazy because I am insisting that the content in the bottle is Coke because the label says Coca-Cola.  But you are right.  Even if the label says Coca-Cola, that does not mean there is Coke inside.  Yet that is what we do with many titles we give ourselves. 

   Others, along with ourselves, give titles like “friend,” “son” or “daughter,” “parent,” “youth leader,” “boss,” “employee,” “student,” “youth group leader,&rdq ...

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