Do You Know What God Is Like?

Scripture: Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28 and Psalm 14  • Exodus 32:7-14 and Psalm 51:1-10  • 1 Timothy 1:12-17  •  Luke 15:1-10

 
Do you know what God looks like? Michael L. Skinner says he does in "I Know What God Looks Like." Compare this with the parable of the lost sheep and the woman who searches for the lost coin. Watch the video in his article about the school bus driver, and consider school employee Antoinette Tuff as she spoke to a troubled 20-year-old gunman. With no choice but to be present to someone who was -- on that day, at least -- very lost, she lit a lamp and bravely started sweeping, saying: “I can help you. Let’s see if we can work it out so that you don’t have to go away with them [the police] for a long time.
Then, as the crisis came to a bloodless end, she soothed him: “It’s gonna be all right, sweetheart. I just want you to know that I love you, though, OK? And I’m proud of you. That’s a good thing that you’re just giving up and don’t worry about it. We all go through something in life.” What characteristics of God, and in his followers do you see?

 

The Rev. Rick Morley says "nobody does this a reflection on Luke 15:1-10," except who?

 

Read "Signs, Sheep and Shepherds" by Kyle Childress, and ask yourself, what kind of church are we? Who are we called to be, and what are we called to do as followers of Christ?