Courage

One of the characteristics that this new movement designed and created by Christ and the Holy Spirit is courage. In our particular, most of our courage appears in our athletics. In the rest of our lives, we simply fold and conform. We do so with our fashions, education and whatever is determined as politically correct. In our study of Acts, we see disciples engaging their culture with grace, love and yes courage. The kind of courage that gets them put in prison for trying to make life better for people. Power of course is at the center of the conflict, both with Rome and with religion. So what does it mean to be courageous in 2009? Does it mean we hold up signs and protest everything and everyone we disagree with? Does it mean that we pull away into protective custody and create a sub culture of people like us? Courage for them propelled them into an unwelcome culture and their mission was not to change people and laws, but to transform lives by the grace and love of Christ. This of course is what changes any culture . . .one life at a time.