As Christians, we are all ministers. We are called to: Love God, love our neighbors, and go and make disciples. But all too often we don't really know how to love God, love our neighbors or go and make disciples. All to often we really don't know what or why we believe what we do. Have we been influenced by a particular creed, a particular church or a particular pastor? Have we taken the time to read, study, meditate on or pray about what we believe or do we just stand on our "religion" because that is what we were taught and have never tried to explore anything different. The Bible tells us to test what we hear, not be seduced by something which sounds good, but is really far from God's Truth and to not dismiss something just because we have never heard it before. Testing the waters is Biblical.
Here at the Passion Play we minister to a wide variety of believers, non-believers, temporal and very devout Christians. Sometimes we are told we are wrong in our message. Sometimes we are told our message is not "biblical" and sometimes we are lectured to and admonished for our stance. The fact that there are so many religions, denominations within each religion and so many people who refuse to yield on their "right to be right" makes ministry a difficult "row to hoe", but one we must continue to hoe.
Keep at the task. Test what we hear, using scripture as our foundation, and in time God will direct us when to "step into the Jordan" and have the faith that the waters will not sweep us away, but provide a path to the Eternal Life we have been promised. We were never promised an easy journey.........just one on which we have a faithful guide and a hope we can depend on. Press on.
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