What's Our Role?

It's official--the world is really messed up. Russia is resurging, Iran wants another holocaust, America and the free world can't fix their financial woes and so the beat goes on, and on and on. If you watch the TV for too long you might work yourself into a panic. Yet as a supposed Great Depression 2 looms, life continues to move along at pretty much the same pace. People are still going on vacation, improving their homes, buying new cars and the beat goes on and on and on.

The world feels panicked and many are losing hope. What is the role of the church in all of this? We are to be a lifehouse. In order to be a lifehouse we have to lay our own concerns and comforts on the line and extend the life preserving Gospel. In other words, our first concern cannot be our retirement plans, bank accounts or luxuries--our first concern must be in the fact that the world is lost and that they will be looking for hope in dark times. We have an opportunity to be a lifehouse in much the same way that Joseph was a lifehouse in the midst of great famine in Egypt.

I completed a two part series on Evangelical Mythos this past week and I am planning on taking us through 1 Timothy 2:1-10 for at least this week as we take a look at how we can be a lifehouse, how we can rearrange our thinking and how we can be effective witnesses of the lifesaving Gospel that our dark world needs to hear.