hardening

Based on Isaiah 6:8-11, Step 5 of “Do You Volunteer to Serve?” generates lot’s of questions. Why did Isaiah volunteer? Why did his message to the people of Judah have the opposite effect of what was intended (their hearts were hardened by the message)? Does God harden the hearts of people today the way the hearts of the people of Judah were hardened?

How can we help members understand God’s love for us and that obedience to Him brings blessing? Instead people sometimes see God as uncaring and unresponsive and they become even more disobedient (harden their hearts). After all, if God doesn’t care, why should they? Are you becoming insensitive to a particular sin in your life today? Is your heart being hardened?

Read this article or this article for examples of “hardening of the attitudes”.