Good Morning All! Well it looks like folks have not found the blog yet but I am sure before long we will see a few people sharing their thoughts. I said this before but one thing I find so amazing about this book is that although it was first written over 100 years ago its principles are as relevant to you and I today as they were then. The same challenges that faced these fictitious people back then are the issues that face followers of Christ in 2008.
So that I don't have to keep repeating myself let me just say that the page numbers I am referring to are from my older copy of In His Steps that picked up many years ago. I think though that you who have the newer books will find the things I refer to pretty close to the same pages if not the very same page. With that said I want to refer you to page 27 when the managing editor (Mr. Clark) for Mr. Norman's paper responses to Mr. Norman's continued desire to consider what Jesus would do in all his decisions effecting his newspaper. On page 27 Mr. Clark said in response to this new direction by Mr. Norman, "But what has that to do with us?" This caused me to think about what I have been preaching about from Philippians 2:5 where Paul encourages us to have the attitude or mind of Christ. Are we to say as well, "What does having the mind of Christ have to do with me in 2008?" Were these words just for the people who made up the church at Philippi, but are irrelevant to you and I today? If that be the case then what else in the Bible is not relevant to me? Certainly if I am not expected to have the mind of Christ in 2008 then should I be expected to follow the prohibition on murder that I read way back in the Ten Commandments? If this call to have the mind of Christ is not relevant to us today then can you share with me what is relevant to us and what is not?
PS. This is not a rhetorical question.
One more thing I want to lift out of chapter three. On the same page (27) it says that after this confrontation Mr. Clark walked away from his meeting with Mr. Norman, "..feeling as if he had been in the presence of a very peculiar person." Is this not the way anyone should feel after they have been in the presence of a follower of Christ? The bible says in Titus 2:14 NLT "He gave his life to free us from every kind of sin, to cleanse us, and make us his very own people totally committed to doing good deeds." In the KJV it uses the word "peculiar" where here the words "very own" is used. The word literally means, "being beyond usual". What a great picture of what Christians ought to be like in this world we live. Yes we are not to strive to be peculiar but it just seems to me that if we really are striving to live as Jesus did then we will seem very peculiar in the way we live. Sadly as this book shows we will even seem peculiar to those who profess to walk with Christ. I am sure some will disagree with me but it just seems to me anymore that it is hard to distinguish believers from non-believers in today's culture. We are called in the Bible to be Holy people which means people who are set apart but what sets us apart? If it is just that we call ourselves Christian or that we go to church two or three times a month, BIG DEAL!
OK I am starting to preach so I better stop and let you share your thoughts.
Pastor Sheldon
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