"For you once were NOT A PEOPLE, but now you are THE PEOPLE OF GOD; you had NOT RECEIVED MERCY, but now you have RECEIVED MERCY. Beloved, I urge you ><>as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul.<>< Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of visitation." 1 Peter 2:10-12 ESV
With all the social changes, political changes, economic changes, moral changes, and religious changes taking place around us at breakneck speeds, do you think that we who as individuals comprise and make up the church as it is, have slowly become strangers and foreigners in the land we live in?
Has our personal faith and belief system, as born-again believers, and the desire to live according to His teachings, and our obedience to pick up the cross and follow Him served to make us outsiders of a sort, in the land we call America?
With all the social changes, political changes, economic changes, moral changes, and religious changes taking place around us at breakneck speeds, do you think that we who as individuals comprise and make up the church as it is, have slowly become strangers and foreigners in the land we live in?
Has our personal faith and belief system, as born-again believers, and the desire to live according to His teachings, and our obedience to pick up the cross and follow Him served to make us outsiders of a sort, in the land we call America?
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