On Saturday evening, as we were finishing up the last of the pizza, we had one of those informal Q & A sessions which probably will be remembered long after all the formal programs and presentations are forgotten. It started with a reference to the way we understand God's call - in comparsion with how others interpret the call from God.
The sermon we heard, a few hours latter at Grace, Boone, reinforced what we had been saying the previous evening.
It is believed and taught among us that the call from God is a call to active living in the world. It is our conviction that God is not attempting to remove us from the world, but to move us more deeply into it and into it's concerns.
The "repentance," the good news which Jesus proclaimed, is an invition to turn our faces to God and to follow where God is leading us. It is a turning around so that we might always see the One who invites us to share in his mission.
This is the Christian lifestyle which Jesus invites those first four disciples - and all of us who have come since - to come and see.
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