November 10, 2024
Greetings and blessings to all of you. At this time one of the most hostile elections of our era is over…and it is ironic that Veterans Day follows. As for the Body of Christ we are still to be the best hope for the world because of who we belong to….that is.. The Lord Jesus Christ… assuming you are saved. Just before Jesus was arrested in John 17:14-19 Jesus prayed to the Father concerning His disciples, “I have given them Your Word and the world has hated them because they are not of this world, even as I am not of this world. I do not ask you to take them out of this world but to keep them from the evil one. They are not of this world even as I am not of this world.” In I Cor. 6:17 says. “Come out from among them and be separate says, the Lord.” Christians are in the world to be that beacon of light that shines in the darkness. Christ Jesus is our cornerstone. God has established His church. He told Peter in Matt.16:18, “I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” In Eph. 2:20-21 “In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.” We have learned that our nation that was founded on Judeo Christian principles has now become a secular society, a people who have little use for God. The change happened gradually when the people of God did not follow Romans 12:2, “ and do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind…instead a lot of the professing Christians who lacked discernment and biblical astuteness listened and followed false teachers who blatantly and unashamedly spread insidious doctrines and lifestyle changes using new vocabulary, for example Abortion Clinics being called Women’s Health Care Clinics. Revisionists have decided to reinvent the history of the world and in doing so have denied the horrors of the Holocaust, took down statues of our national heroes and celebrated degeneracy (Gay Pride month) without shame with children watching. We are the Influencers. You may ask how is it possible to live as followers of Christ in a fallen and fractured world coming alongside of broken people who are deceived and delusional? See that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise heeding the time, because the days are evil. Therefore, do not be unwise but understand what the will of the Lord is.
Eph.5:15-18
With the Love of Christ
First Lady Vivian C. Currie
Pastor ALC