Too much, all at once ...

I once worked with someone who was in charge of writing policy.  He proudly stated why he was chosen to write the policy.  It was because he had a mastery of the language ...and was able to write a very wordy, lengthy policy that perhaps no one else could understand.  He figured that since no one could understand it ...then no one would challenge it, succumbing to the assumption that the person who wrote it must know what he was talking about and would be the most qualified to determine policy.

In a way, it seems our federal health care system came about in a similar fashion ...the Affordable Care Act. One report described it as so many pages, and additional pages of regulations drafted afterwards ...that if you took all the pages of documents for that health care system, it would be taller than the average basketball player.  I guess you could say that was a slam dunk ...if you would compare what kind of shot that was for the American people.

Several years ago brother was to fly from Indianapolis to Atlanta, or some city in the South.  He was given such short notice that as he was to get on the plane, he was handed a portfolio that he was told to read on the plane.  My brother was told not to worry, as likely no one at the meeting would know anything about the subject, so if he reviewed the material while in flight ...he would have adequate enough knowledge on the subject, and everyone else would likely not ask any question for fear they'd be revealing how little they knew.

There are those of us who have studied the Bible for years ...and we meet people who don't believe in God, or they say they've never been certain what to believe.  I don't think quoting a bunch of Scripture would be the best course of action on our part.  If we dominate the conversation, our sense of confidence may be interpreted wrongly.  And why would we want to appear to have superior knowledge on a subject they've as of yet not been able to accept the basics of??

Our expectations should not be too great.