Sermon 06.10.12 :: Flaky > Steadfast

Countercultural Christianity:

Flaky > Steadfast

Easter creates a new way of life. The empty tomb creates a new people with a new set of values, concerns, habits, and hope.  Such a life often proves countercultural to the systems in which we live and work.  The habits of the new life often appear strange to the norms of our society.  In a society of endless choices and options, steadfast devotion is hard to find.  More typical is flakiness that wavers uncommitted between a plethora of possibilities.  This produces a people who are never really committed to anything.  Today we reclaim the biblical value of steadfastness.  Steadfastness is a part of God’s very nature, and it is part of every Christian’s calling.  

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Scripture Reading: 2 Peter 1:5-11

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins. Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall. For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.