Like with most firstborns it was impressed upon me that I set a good example for my younger siblings. But I did not excel academically, musically, or athletically. That is to put in mildly! And yet I had a crafty rationale for the mediocrity. Out of concern for my four younger siblings I did not want to set the bar too high and simply overwhelm them. It was an act of charity on my part, don’t you see? … Is it an act of charity when in many of our churches we have been lowering the bar in recent decades?. It is thought we might attract more people that way. But we forget, the bar is not ours to set! Clearly, in the Bible the bar is set very high, impossibly high! And it is important that we understand this.
14How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? 15And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!"
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Gift of Grace Lutheran Church
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Holmen, Wisconsin 54636
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