"Acting like you have faith or Acting on your true faith"
Ask for blessings!
Before I begin I will tell you I love to do illustrations and you'll hear quite a few in my sermons. For one the congregation loves to hear them, or I do at least?and it gets your attention. Another, it shows how God works in everyday life, and I believe that is what our church needs to hear more than anything else today.
A young woman teacher with obvious liberal tendencies explains to her class of small children that she is an atheist. She asks her class if they are atheists too. Not really knowing what atheism is but wanting to be like their teacher, their hands explode into the air like fleshy fireworks. There is, however, one exception. A beautiful girl named Lucy has not gone along with the crowd. The teacher asks her why she has decided to be different. "Because I'm not an atheist." Then, asks the teacher, what are you? "I'm a Christian." Says Lucy. The teacher is a little perturbed now, her face slightly red. She asks Lucy why she is a Christian. "Well, I was brought up knowing and loving Jesus. My mom is a Christian, and my dad is a Christian, so I am a Christian. The teacher is now agitated. "That's no reason," she says forcefully. "What if your mom was a moron and your dad was a moron. What would you be then?" A pause and a smile "Then," says Lucy, "I'd be an atheist."
The main purpose of that illustration was to describe her faith.
SENSES - Seeing, Hearing, and Feeling
The Wind - Childlike faith
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