I was preparing my Sunday School lesson, and I particularly liked this passage because it is something that I am still struggling to do.. It's a nice reminder:
Q: What is God?
A: God is a spirit, and has not a body like men.
You said that you were made in His image. What does that mean? You have hands and feet, and the Bible says that no many can pluck God's children from His hands. That sounds like God has a hand. Do we look like God? The Bible says in John 4:24, "God is a Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth." God is not bound by a physical body. He took on a physical body so that He could accomplish the job of redeeming us, but He is not bound by physical limitations and a body. When He made us in His image He gave us souls that could never die. In the Pauline letters, there is a verse that says when you become one of God's children you must think no more of people as personalities or individuals, but as souls. I cannot say that I can't like a person because of the way she wears her hair, or because I disapprove of the way he spends his time, or that with another there is just a clash of personality. If you look at people as souls, then there are only two kinds of people. What are they? The saved and the lost. If you see someone and see only a lost soul, you try to point them to Christ. If he or she is a saved soul, then you enjoy Christian fellowship with them, regardless of the kind of clothes they wear, or the correctness of their spirituality. If you are the stronger, you can help them. You look at everyone as souls. This is the way God made us in His image. But He is a spirit.
How to teach the Catechism to Children
It's hard to not judge...even though I know that I have absolutely no right to, I do find myself judging as well as being judged by other people. And my excuse is that since everyone judges me, I can judge them too.
I need to stop being a lemming, or I'm going to find myself jumping off that bridge, like everyone else....
Q: What is God?
A: God is a spirit, and has not a body like men.
You said that you were made in His image. What does that mean? You have hands and feet, and the Bible says that no many can pluck God's children from His hands. That sounds like God has a hand. Do we look like God? The Bible says in John 4:24, "God is a Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth." God is not bound by a physical body. He took on a physical body so that He could accomplish the job of redeeming us, but He is not bound by physical limitations and a body. When He made us in His image He gave us souls that could never die. In the Pauline letters, there is a verse that says when you become one of God's children you must think no more of people as personalities or individuals, but as souls. I cannot say that I can't like a person because of the way she wears her hair, or because I disapprove of the way he spends his time, or that with another there is just a clash of personality. If you look at people as souls, then there are only two kinds of people. What are they? The saved and the lost. If you see someone and see only a lost soul, you try to point them to Christ. If he or she is a saved soul, then you enjoy Christian fellowship with them, regardless of the kind of clothes they wear, or the correctness of their spirituality. If you are the stronger, you can help them. You look at everyone as souls. This is the way God made us in His image. But He is a spirit.
How to teach the Catechism to Children
It's hard to not judge...even though I know that I have absolutely no right to, I do find myself judging as well as being judged by other people. And my excuse is that since everyone judges me, I can judge them too.
I need to stop being a lemming, or I'm going to find myself jumping off that bridge, like everyone else....
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