Comfort Zone

Your comfort zone. What a precious possession? We drastically underestimate the power of those two words: comfort zone. Wikipedia defines a comfort zone as “the term used to denote a type of mental conditioning resulting in artificially created mental boundaries, within which an individual derives a sense of security.”

The call of Christ is to lay down our lives for others, to live and share the gospel with any and everyone, and to radically change the world around us. Living in the U.S., our culture teaches us to constantly seek comfort. We are told to get more and learn more so we can grow in “comfort”. More stuff and nice things for me = nice life. Perhaps not.

Alvin Reid, a great professor of evangelism at Southeastern Seminary said “…its the job of a minister both to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable” (Reid 2004, 17). I whole heartedly agree with Dr. Reid. However, we must confront our own comfort in order that we can confront the comforted.