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Faith or the Fleeting Pleasures of Sin

24 By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, 25 choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. 26 He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward. – Hebrews 11:224-26 ESV In an attempt to preserve his life, Moses’ mother, Jochebed,…

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Faith in the coming time

The nature of living out the enduring Faith in the coming decades will take on a patina quite different from what the past decades (past century) have ever known, even while the foundations of the Faith remain from the beginning.

To claim such a Faith will mean identifying as one who is fundamentally different in one’s approach to life, in one’s understanding of what a human is and is capable of, in conceiving of how to live in tactile community, in conceiving of and experiencing the concept and emotion of love, and etc. Life lived will be different than the lives lived by the majority of people all around us. Even now, we are a minority.

We are becoming and will be ever more so a peculiar people. Whether we experience the Faith collectively in grand churches, in homes, under a lonely tree in a large field, in bars, stores, theaters, or coffee houses - we will be there not because it is expected of us, but because we have tasted of and know profoundly that the Lord is good.

This kind if living requires - now, then, and in years coming - intention, persistence, consistency, and humility. The Faith remains, has no need of reconfiguration, but the experience of it all in rapidly changing contexts will be different by necessity.

We are in times of tumultuous societal and cultural change - in education and entertainment, with regard to information and technology, and in other ways we cannot understand until we have a bit of hindsight. The 20th-Century Christian experience is over, regardless of how strongly some try to maintain it. Those who fight to maintain such a status-quo will be continually frustrated. Those who think change requires giving up enduring, distinguishing beliefs held by the Faith will be bewildered. Those of us who yearn to simply love God with all our being(!) and love our neighbors even as God transforms us so that we are able to love ourselves, rightly, will do so. It is our hope that we will understand and live into God’s Way, life to the full, within our contexts - if we take up the opportunity.  What will we take up?