Monday, August 19, 2013

Created Equal

Created Equal
This weekend in adore we are recognizing Independence Day with the color survey bringing the American Stock here the territory and singing jingoistic songs to stir up us of the leeway that we peculiar as league of this affirm. Not emphatically do we peculiar fan leeway but likewise the leeway to solid together today and adore God not including irrational fear.

The Expression of Independence likewise states that "all [club] are bent even." It doesn't say untrained even - it says "bent" even. Age band requires a divine Originator, and as Christians we undergo that "God bent the human race in his image, in the image of God he bent them; male and female he bent them" (Beginning 1:27).

This weekend is the solution time to look into at ourselves as club bent in the image of God, with great analytical, spiritual and relational gifts. For the most part, we are brothers and sisters, bent in the image of God. Seeing that we undergo this, emphatically next can we secure out to each other with love and discernment and understanding, accepting each other as the Lord accepts each one of us.

God of approach and splendor, as we go on to delegation the first light of our nation, it is with grateful hearts that we raise our relatives. We boast leniency for all the club who peculiar fought for and safeguarded our leeway via the time. We raise, as well, individuals whom we harmed as we built our affirm - the Unpretentious Americans and the Africans who were locked up. We ask your support as we go on to learn how to live together as a affirm completed up of club of various original ethnicities and faiths. Operation us undergo that we are really sisters and brothers each bent in your image.

We are blessed with an glittery style of countryside crossways our land, the exciting redwoods, our coastlines, massive plains, royal mountains and deserts. Operation us protect each of these original environments so the generations to come can exploit their beauty.

Operation us not take on our leeway for decided - thanks that offer are but too various club via the world who don't segregate the luxuries of leeway we consider basic citizenship, such as projection and religion. May we ever raise, nonetheless, our ceiling loved freedom: "For leeway, Christ has set us free." Thanks be to God. Amen.

Nancy Pauls, Minister of Entreaty