The purpose of Our Story (Capital S) is to expand upon what it is we have when we say we have faith in Christ Jesus. It is not something vague, it is not a ‘one off’, it is not something like a spiritual T-shirt we put on without remembering the print on the front. Faith in Jesus is inclusive of a world-view and a means of living and acting.
The devil has many tactics to take our eyes
‘off the prize’ of Jesus. This includes attempting to make our faith seem
irrelevant in our present day. This
includes attempting to turn our faith into a means of power to be wielded in the political and cultural arenas. This
includes pressing on us so many of the concerns of the world that we get busy
for the sake of busyness and lose sight of Jesus. Anything to deflect us from
our Savior.
It isn’t that Jesus is taken out of the
equation of our lives and faith, but that He is pushed to the fringes as other
things pile on.
Who we are as people of Jesus, who we
are as people who act on the behalf of Jesus, who we are as witnesses to Our
Story for the world around us, that is where this blog begins, for the First
Presbyterian Church of Merchantville, although we invite other readers.
From under the pinions of our Lord’s wings,
Rev. Peter Hofstra
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