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*A Visible Church before a Watching World*
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2 Corinthians 3:1-3
/ 1Are we beginning to commend ourselves again?
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/Or do we need, like some people, /
/ letters of recommendation to you or from you? /
/2//You yourselves are our letter, /
/ written on our hearts, /
/ known and read by everybody.
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/3//You show that you are a letter from Christ, /
/ the result of our ministry, /
/ written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, /
/ not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
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/Always be prepared to give an answer /
/to everyone who asks you /
/to give the reason for the hope that you have.
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/But do this with gentleness and respect…, /1 Peter 3:15
In Arecibo, Puerto Rico,
we find the largest Satelite dish in the world.
You know…
a satelite dish that sends and receives radio signals…
With this “cosmic hearing aid” –
if we want to call it that,
scientists are “listening” intensely
for signs that anyone “out there” in space
is watching us…
Well, as Christians we have always known
that we are being watched…
Every day
at the workplace,
at school,
at the community club,
in our homes and neighborhoods,
people are watching us,
and they demand to see the reasons
for our hope and our faith.
People throughout the ages have argued
about the nature of the church.
Is the Church a visible reflection
of the kingdom of God?
Or is the Church invisible and mysterious –
where you never know who is a true Christian
and who is not.
The most commonly held belief
about the visibility of the Church today,
is that all the members of the church
make up the “visible church”,
but that there is also an “invisible church”,
that is the “true Christians”
who are known to God alone.
Our Anabaptist forebears of the 16th Century
followed the understanding of the earliest Christians,
that faith must be visible to all.
Their’s was a very visible faith,
and many were persecuted and martyred
on account of what they believed.
Their faith was not something that they could hide
“for God’s eyes only”.
Our Anabaptist forebears believed
that the Church must be visible
if it is to be the true Body of Christ.
The concern of the church today is the same
as that of the Early Church
and of the Anabaptist Reformers.
It is not easy to be a Christian
in a post-Christian world!
I was talking to a high school student
about Religious Education in Public schools.
She said,
“you can’t do that;
you can’t impose your Christian religion
on a multicultural ~/ multi-religious society.
That is a thing of the past.”
The same applies to the workplace.
If your boss wants you to work on Sundays,
or on Good Friday and Christmas
(some of our main Christian Holidays)
in many situations you just don’t have a choice
unless you’re in the market for a new job.
Also, our’s is a society that has little tolerance
for the church to take a firm stand
on moral or even political issue…
Many would argue
that the church should mind it’s own business and
not be involved in politics at all.
This may be a bit of a hot button
since we are headed for the polls tomorrow…
As Christians we are keenly aware
that the world is watching us…
The world is watching every step…
every action of the Church and its members…
seeking to damage the credibility
of the Christian witness.
Francis Schaefer,
speaking to the Church and to Christians, said,
“It is important to show forth beauty
before a lost world and a lost generation.
All too often people have not been wrong
in saying that the church is ugly.
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
we are called upon to show to a watching world
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