15 December 2022
Covenant and conviction: We teach that the only answer to any and all human need is found in obeying the Covenant and walking by your convictions.
Fellowship and social interaction is not a major agenda item. Rather, growing a covenant community is simply inevitable. That's how faith works. Even if you hide away from the mainstream, pulling away as far as possible, people of faith will eventually follow your path and join you. That's how it works. The Lord moves that way; it's His nature. It's programmed into Creation itself -- and it's always by His timing.
We are not fomenting a movement. We are joining a work in progress. The best we can hope for is to find a place in the ongoing work of God that started with the beginning of the world. We are just along for the ride. You and I are simply individual flagstones in the road of revelation our Father planned in Eternity. We can look back and see the long history of revelation, and we are permitted some foggy perspective on how it runs off into the future. The best we can do is make sure we find the place made for us. And then we have to make ourselves open to Him shaping us to fit in that place.
It's a wonder any of us are included. In some ways, the Father deigns to pick us up and drop us into His building. He is the Builder of this temple to His glory. What a sweet privilege to be among the Elect! So we all together lean against the Cornerstone, His Son.
It is not necessary to do outreach as men do such things. We don't gather the stones; the Lord does that. He is the only real actor in this story. All of us are merely objects upon which He acts in His composition. What we can do, and what matters to us most, is how clearly we reflect His glory onto the world around us. That's all the difference we can make.
This Radix Fidem thing we do is not a movement, unless it's a movement of God's hand. He's the one who decides what happens with it. Our part is minor, but we surely receive the joy of fellowship in Him, with Him and His children. Go where He leads you; do what He says. The results are in His hands.
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