Good Question

Pastor Perry Noble throws out a great series of questions in a recent post. I find them to be personally challenging.

What if I was not a follower of Christ...and Christians treated me the way you I treat non-Christians?

That in itself didn't challenge me until I read the rest of his related questions. I added a few to his list.

• Would I ever get invited to church?
• Would I feel looked down on?
• Would I feel condemned?
• Would I be ignored?
• Would I ever see a Christian's life up close?
• Would I experience sacrificial service and love from followers of Christ?
• Would anyone pray for me?

Look at the question again.

What if you were not a follower of Christ...and Christians treated you the way you treat non-Chistians?

God's Story and Ours

I like what Michael Lawrence says about God's story and ours in Biblical Theology in the Life of the Church. He says that rather than treating the Bible as life's little answer book, we need to see it as...

"...the grand story that gives our stories meaning. This means that the vision we need comes...from a prayerful habit of mind that refuses to understand Today according to the terms of the cultural narratives at hand--the narragives of progress, ethnicity, and accumulation, to name a few. Instead, Today is defined in light of the biblical story. That story increasingly defines who we are, where we've come from, and where we're going. As a result, that story tells us what we should be doing and thinking and feeling Today."