Questions and Answers

No text from this Sunday as it was all impromptu.

Questions asked in this service:

  1. Why are people so divisive and dismissive about others and their point of view? We almost always have more in common than what is different and we can learn from and appreciate different points of view.
  2. God says we’re stewards of the earth. We will work to save the earth from climate change. Will we be stewards to stop abuse of the earth?
  3. If God is still speaking, why is it still so hard to hear God?
  4. Why is God so forgiving and people are not?
  5. I don’t understand how people who are “Christian” can turn their backs on those who are immigrants, of other faiths, are poor, of other races… how can this be? Why I pray, do I include them?

How would you answer these questions? Comment below and check our Facebook page for more questions over the course of the week!

Pastor Luke did cite the following resources

Roads from Recycled Plastic. More Plastic in Ocean than Fish by 2050.

Sanneh, Lamen. Disciples of All Nations: Pillars of World Christianity.

Pew Research Center graph from Twitter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“These things I can do, you can do, and greater than these…” -John 14:12

Biblical Commands on welcome of refugee, stranger, foreigner:

  • Deuteronomy 10: 19 You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
  • Leviticus 19:34 The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
  • Matthew 5:43-44 You have heard that it was said, ‘you shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy’. But I say to you, love your enemy and pray for those who persecute you.
  • Matthew 25:40 Truly I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of my brethren you did it to me.
  • Romans 13:8 Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
  • Romans 13:10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor, therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
  • Acts 10:34 Then Peter began to speak to them: “I truly understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.
  • 3 John 1:5 Beloved, you do faithfully whatever you do for the friends, even though they are strangers to you; they have testified to your love before the church. You do well to send them on in a manner worthy of God; for they began their journey for the sake of Christ, accepting no support from non-believers. Therefore we ought to support such people, so that they may become co-workers with the truth.
  • Luke 10:27 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.
  • Hebrews 13: 1 Let mutual love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.
  • Colossians 3:11 In that renewal there is no longer Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free; but Christ is all and in all.
  • Matthew 25: 35 I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me.
  • Romans 12:13 Contribute to the needs of the saints; extend hospitality to strangers.
  • There are over 120 commands concerning this in the Bible, these are just a few!

 

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