Comments on: The Just Shall Live by Faith http://ceruleansanctum.com/2008/10/the-just-shall-live-by-faith.html Looking for the 1st century Church in 21st century America Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:37:15 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dan Edelenhttp://ceruleansanctum.com/2008/10/the-just-shall-live-by-faith.html#comment-41845 Dan Edelen Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:45:52 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/?p=1026#comment-41845 Don, People shy away from pain. They don't like other people's problems and mess. Because of this, they are ill-equipped when pain comes. Don,

People shy away from pain. They don’t like other people’s problems and mess. Because of this, they are ill-equipped when pain comes.

]]> By: Dan Edelenhttp://ceruleansanctum.com/2008/10/the-just-shall-live-by-faith.html#comment-41844 Dan Edelen Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:43:51 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/?p=1026#comment-41844 David, A favorite old Navigators TMS verse. Thanks. David,

A favorite old Navigators TMS verse. Thanks.

]]> By: Don Fieldshttp://ceruleansanctum.com/2008/10/the-just-shall-live-by-faith.html#comment-41815 Don Fields Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:08:10 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/?p=1026#comment-41815 I am teaching through Ecclesiastes and in 4:2-3 it says that the dead are better than the living and for some it would have been better if they never were born (loose paraphrase). I asked my Sunday School class what they would say to someone, like Job, who had lost everything. What would they say to give hope? And this class of twenty and thirty-year-old's couldn't come up with much more than "it will get better." Unfortunately, in this world it doesn't always get better. The American Dream is starting to loose its shine and I wonder what American Christians are going to do when they loose their source of hope, joy, comfort and strength. Things, not Christ, have reigned supreme and maybe this is the wake-up call we need. Unfortunately, it probably won't last long enough to teach us the lessons we need to learn. I am relearning some things myself and I hope I will be forever changed. I am teaching through Ecclesiastes and in 4:2-3 it says that the dead are better than the living and for some it would have been better if they never were born (loose paraphrase). I asked my Sunday School class what they would say to someone, like Job, who had lost everything. What would they say to give hope? And this class of twenty and thirty-year-old’s couldn’t come up with much more than “it will get better.” Unfortunately, in this world it doesn’t always get better.

The American Dream is starting to loose its shine and I wonder what American Christians are going to do when they loose their source of hope, joy, comfort and strength. Things, not Christ, have reigned supreme and maybe this is the wake-up call we need. Unfortunately, it probably won’t last long enough to teach us the lessons we need to learn. I am relearning some things myself and I hope I will be forever changed.

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