My Social Responsibility – God is not For Sale

Greetings Dear Reader,

The story of our redemption has the highest cost attached to it ever paid for anything.  It was God’s blood that bought my redemption.  I achieve access to this redemption through faith alone.  The problem is then the many ways in which we sell the gospel to others.

Salvation is a free gift from God that compels us to share that gift with others.  When we force those who

would follow Christ into a system laws and traditions designed by men we pollute the purity of that gift.  I imagine again the impact it would have on the world we are supposed to reach if we gave in love all the good things God offers to his followers.

It is too easy to place the gospel into a commercial system and treat it like a business.  The bottom line matters much more it seems than our passion for those who need both the social and spiritual aspect of the Gospel.  I am to attach no cost to the Gospel other than faith.  I will give no further burden than that of following.  I must not dishonor my own free gift by adding anything to it for others.

Playing Marbles with Diamonds – Steve Camp

Waking up to a very different world

We got mud on our flag before it’s even been unfurled

Our heroes have fallen and a leader is heard to find

The clock is running out and we’re casting our pearls before swine

There’s a whole lot more than preaching to the choir

Kneeling at the alter and paying our tithe

We've been treating God like he’s happiness for hire

We've been playing marbles with diamonds

Isn't it a sin how his name how his name gets thrown around

We pat God on the back like a buddy from out of town

We thank “the man upstairs” for the things people praise us for

We give God the glory but we’re happy to take the award

There’s a whole lot more than raising lots of money

Building our churches and spreading our faith

If faith is just the dice you roll to get lucky

We've been playing marbles with diamonds

There are precious things of God

And we must guard them with our lives

Like an unborn baby’s dreams

Like a husband love his wife

May the hope of his returning

May it glorify our faith

As we hold onto his holy word

May the chaff be blown away

Can we ever live up to the things we say we believe

Because the world is watching looking for some honesty

Are we riding down a freeway instead of narrow road

We turned the passion for the lost into the business of saving souls

There’s a whole lot more than preaching to the choir

Kneeling at the alter and paying our tithe

We've been treating God like he’s happiness for hire

We've been playing marbles with diamonds

There’s a whole lot more than raising lots of money

Building our churches and spread

If faith is just the dice you roll to get lucky

We've been playing marbles with diamonds

Wishing you joy in the journey,

Aramis Thorn

Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a home owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure store."