Colleen Davis
5th December 2005, 11:15 PM (23:15)
“When two or three of you are together because of me, you can be sure that I’ll be there.” Matthew 18:20 The Message
Every time I move to a new community, I find a church close by and join it…I’ve never been anything other than disappointed. Every one turns out to be biblical, through and through; murmurers, complainers, the faithless, the inconstant, those plagued with doubt and riddled with sin, boring moralizers, glamorous secularizers.
Yet every once in a while a shaft of blazing beauty seems to break out of nowhere and illuminate these companies, and then I see what my sin-dulled eyes had missed:…lives of sacrificial humility, incredible courage, heroic virtue, holy praise, joyful suffering, constant prayer, persevering obedience. I see Christ.
From “Leap Over a Wall” by Eugene H. Peterson
Every time I move to a new community, I find a church close by and join it…I’ve never been anything other than disappointed. Every one turns out to be biblical, through and through; murmurers, complainers, the faithless, the inconstant, those plagued with doubt and riddled with sin, boring moralizers, glamorous secularizers.
Yet every once in a while a shaft of blazing beauty seems to break out of nowhere and illuminate these companies, and then I see what my sin-dulled eyes had missed:…lives of sacrificial humility, incredible courage, heroic virtue, holy praise, joyful suffering, constant prayer, persevering obedience. I see Christ.
From “Leap Over a Wall” by Eugene H. Peterson