June 22, 2025
Greetings and blessings to all of you. Christians living in today’s world have both a responsibility to be faithful to God and a responsibility to be productive citizens in society. We think with the ‘mind of Christ’. We are the influencers of this nation and of our immediate surroundings. When Jesus left to sit at the right hand of the Father He left us here with a mandate in Matt 28:19-20 that says, “Go and make disciples of all nation..,….and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.” The world needs to see us being what God said in Matthew 5:13-14 “You are the salt of the earth but if the salt has lost its taste how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet. You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.” We are Christ hands and feet in this perverse generation. We are the Body of Christ that help to restore Biblical values playing a pivotal role in shaping culture and equipping our brothers and sisters with the knowledge of moral and ethical issues that God has spoken to us in the Scriptures. Since we are a new creation in Christ “therefore if anyone is in Christ the new creation has come the old has gone the new is here.” 2 Cor. 5: 17. We are no longer who we were. Jesus has authority over our life and He deserves to be our top priority. He knows what pleases the Father. He has sent His Spirit to live in us and teach and guide us in our day to day lives. Therefore, if you are not astonished and heartbroken over the prideful exaltation of aberrant sexual lifestyles and gender identities contrary to God’s design you have not understood the Scriptures. Our culture has embraced Pride Month which is declaring sexual perversion. This is a double insult to God as it is not just the sinfulness of pride that is being elevated there is an inherent denouncement of God’s traditional pattern for marriage and the intimacy established between man and woman. The culture has had a parade announcing “we have no King”. But we do. The King of King is the Lord Jesus Christ the ruler of all. The spirit of this world is at war with us and this expresses itself in persecution, ridicule and opposition. “If the world hates you keep in mind that it hated me first.” (John 15:18) Now Go!
With the Love of Christ
First Lady Vivian C. Currie
Pastor ALC