Imagine boarding your flight for Houston and hearing the pilot announce: “Good morning everyone! Thanks for flying Western Airlines. We will be next in line to take off, please fasten your seatbelts. By the way, our instruments are not functioning properly today. The technicians diagnosed the problem and were able to get our airplane to fly within one degree of our assigned flight plan. I told them thanks and that’s close enough.”

Though I don’t know what one degree would mean in a flight from Dayton to Houston, it could easily mean landing in Colorado or in the Gulf of Mexico.

One degree doesn’t sound like much does it? In weather temperatures we don’t care if it’s 81 or 82, but in our body temperature we care very much about the difference between 102 and 103 degrees!

Being off just one degree isn’t acceptable, is it?

If we were taught that all religions ultimately lead people to heaven, it sounds good. But the reality is that there is more than one degree’s difference between the religions and faith systems of the world.

Though it may sound narrow and restrictive, when Jesus said in John 14 “I am the way, the truth, and the life and no one comes to the Father, but through me”, He made it clear that being one degree off was a VERY big deal!

Blessings!

Pastor Mark