My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. - Jn 10, 27
This is how we can tell whether someone belongs to Christ, whether their faith experiences have brought them to legitimate conversion. If they follow where Jesus leads instead of the urging of the world, then we may trust that they are authentic.
Our associate pastor talked about how a follower of Christ ought to respond to the events in Boston, including the awareness that this sort of event is an everyday fear in some parts of the world. I suppose I should feel encouraged in not hearing anything that wasn't part of my approach already, but my heart is too heavy for the many victims and even the broken perpetrators to take such comfort.
Maybe I just haven't seen it yet, but someone should be commenting on the connection to the shootings at the Denver rally yesterday. Of course, on the surface they're completely unrelated. But to me, they seem to be driven by the same underlying cause: a complete unwillingness to accept that we cannot make people do what we think they should or what we want them to do. This drives the entire worldwide issue of terrorism and the vast array of attacks against innocents in the many forms that they are perpetrated.
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