We must know what we believe.

9/1/2018

When I was growing up, in my church the young people were taught what “the church” believed we were not to do. When I reached the age that I could join our church and have the right to vote in elections, one of the questions was, did I know what the church believed. When I asked someone that said it was published in our weekly “paper” and to look there. After looking in a few, I asked my mother and she could not find them there, however, she did know where to find them. Sure enough I knew what they were because I had been taught them along with the “what not to do’s”. They just were not taught as “what the church believes”.

After many years I was visiting another Pentecostal church and heard someone say that they left the church that they grew up in because they only taught “what not to do” and she was tired of being told the negative, so she left and lost her salvation. The good thing is that God gave her time to come back to him. Many do not get the chance to come back to God.

This week I came across an article called Christians Must Be Known For More Than What We’re For, by: Dean Inserra. (see link below article) In this article he states that though it sounds good it is really not as good as it sounds.

When we serve God with all our hearts, we will do the best that we can to emulate Christ. We will show love to those around us, help those who have a need, but we will not be walked all over (Remember the moneychangers in the Temple?).

As we do our best to let Christ shine in our lives every day, we will be known for what we are and what we believe. They will not have to ask, “What do you believe?” as I did in my youth they will be able to tell those around them because they will know how we live.

We must not be like the willow tree that bends whichever way the wind blows, but like the might Sequoia that stands tall and stands through the winds, the fires and the rains.

It is also wise for us all to know what we stand for as well as what we do not stand for. Or as my husband has stated for many years; We need to know where to find what the Bible states about what we believe.

C.I.Wilson

https://factsandtrends.net/2018/08/28/christians-must-be-known-for-more-than-what-we-are-for/