2-28-10
Bulletin Listen Watch Video

Dear Friends,

We’re good at respecting the “individual” in our culture.  We value individual rights, individual options, individual claims, individual freedom.  We boast of our freedom to do just about anything we want to do with our lives, but rarely do we have people in our lives who can help us figure out what in the world might be worth doing. We need mentors, friends, leaders, examples in our lives to show us the way, to show us how to be faithful, to show us what we can be.  But we live in a culture in which people prefer to be admired rather than imitated – do as I say, not as I do, they say. 

That’s what makes Paul such a rare and necessary leader.  “Join in imitating me,” he told the Philippians.  It wasn’t that he thought of himself too highly.  It wasn’t that he thought himself perfect.  Paul simply understood that to be a Christian is to assume that, whether we like it or not, we are always exposed to the imitative stare of those around us.  All of us teach others by the very way we live our lives.   

Who’s watching you today?  Your children, your neighbor, your spouse, your co-worker?  Chances are it’s someone you do not even know is there.  Who will you be?  How will you live?  What will you do?

See you Sunday,

Rev. Mark