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16
Feb

Who is waiting on us?

In my reading today of Romans I was struck by this question, “Who is waiting on me?”

Romans 8:19 says, “For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.”

The more we seek Christ and His Kingdom the more we will be revealing oursleves as the sons of God.  The more we reveal ourselves as the sons of God the more creation should be redeemed.

Now, I’m not a tree hugger. I’m not an environmentalist.  I will try to always value people over everything else, but I think we miss the point of what it means to be the adopted children of God if creation is not positively impacted by our presence.  In fact, I would say that it must be positively impacted by our presence, and Romans 8 seems to reciprocate the revealing of Gods sons with the redemption of creation.

The other thing that struck me is that there are people awaiting the revealing of the sons of God.  There is someone we work with that is awaiting God to be revealed through us.  There is a family member awaiting anxiously for us to behave as Christ would behave.  There is a child, a parent, a guy I play basketball with on Fridays who is awaiting God’s revelation through me.

Is that heavy or what?  What a huge responsibility and opportunity.  It’s heavy, but it isn’t nearly as heavy as choosing to fail to reveal that we are sons and daughters of God.  There are eternal reprocussions for those whom we fail to show a glimpse of God’s glory. 

Let’s not fail.

10
Feb

Urban Ministry Reflections

Reading Urban Ministry has been more like walking through a knee deep mud pit than adventurous and exciting, but it is beginning to have some impact on me. So, I have questions like: “Who are the urbanites or city dwellers in this relatively small community of 30,000 people? What is their ethnic and demographic makeup? What would it mean to bring Justice and the Shalom of God to Georgetown, and what part would reconciliation with the African American community here play? How might involving the African American community in assisting us at Adopt Uganda be a tool in that reconciliation? How might we also be a voice as a church in making sure Georgetown doesn’t become just as oppressive toward the Mexican migrant workers? How can we teach our predominately white middle class congregation that following Jesus and making Him known to Georgetown involves Godly Justice and Shalom?”

9
Feb

Romans 6 reflections

” 6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with,Or be rendered powerless that we should no longer be slaves to sin-7 because anyone who has died has been freed from sin. (NIV)”


Why is it necessary for us to understand that in our accepting of Christ as Lord and Savior we have participated with Him in His death?

Romans 6:6-7 makes it clear that only the living remain slaves to sin and because we have died with Christ and have been raised with Him then sin is no longer in control.  We died.  We are a new creation.  We’re free.  
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