IT'S MORE THAN MEMBERSHIP (6 OF 8)
by William Wyne
Scripture: Acts 11:21
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It's More Than Membership (6 of 8)
Series: Membership
Acts 11:26c, 21, 23
William Wyne
A new young Naval officer who was an Ensign (a commissioned officer of the lowest rank in the Navy) was assigned duty at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. He immediately met an older Marine Sergeant that lived in the complex that he moved into and just so happened to work at the same place. The Marine offered him to ride with him the first couple of days. He would show him how to navigate the drive to work and around the observatory. The new Ensign welcomed and accepted that invitation gladly. The new Ensign showed him a pair of brown shoes that he had purchased to go with his Khaki uniform. The veteran marine examined the leather quite carefully, and said, “Let me take these homes, and I will show you a real Marine Corps shine.”
On that Monday, the first day of his new assignment, and the first day they rode together, he wore his old shoes expecting to switch them will the ones the Sergeant was polishing. The veteran Sergeant reached into a grocery bag and pulled out the left shoe. It was shining like glass; it was a shine unlike this new soldier had seen. It was dazzling, it was sparkling, it was without a doubt a shine incomparable.
The marine said, “This is the way a Marine shine a shoe young man.” He then reached into the bag and handed him the other shoe that was un-shined and said, “Now all you have to do is polish this one to look like the other one.”
We do not have to try to figure out how we should look as disciples, as Christians, as a church. The Bible has presented us with the shine of discipleship, of being a Christian, of being a church. Our real task is to become polished, to shine in a way that resembles Christ disciples, that mirrors biblical Christianity, and that reflects Christ’s church.
The Bible is replete with various shines of this image of the church, but Acts 11 is a chapter that mirrors some principles of the is shine that ...
Series: Membership
Acts 11:26c, 21, 23
William Wyne
A new young Naval officer who was an Ensign (a commissioned officer of the lowest rank in the Navy) was assigned duty at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. He immediately met an older Marine Sergeant that lived in the complex that he moved into and just so happened to work at the same place. The Marine offered him to ride with him the first couple of days. He would show him how to navigate the drive to work and around the observatory. The new Ensign welcomed and accepted that invitation gladly. The new Ensign showed him a pair of brown shoes that he had purchased to go with his Khaki uniform. The veteran marine examined the leather quite carefully, and said, “Let me take these homes, and I will show you a real Marine Corps shine.”
On that Monday, the first day of his new assignment, and the first day they rode together, he wore his old shoes expecting to switch them will the ones the Sergeant was polishing. The veteran Sergeant reached into a grocery bag and pulled out the left shoe. It was shining like glass; it was a shine unlike this new soldier had seen. It was dazzling, it was sparkling, it was without a doubt a shine incomparable.
The marine said, “This is the way a Marine shine a shoe young man.” He then reached into the bag and handed him the other shoe that was un-shined and said, “Now all you have to do is polish this one to look like the other one.”
We do not have to try to figure out how we should look as disciples, as Christians, as a church. The Bible has presented us with the shine of discipleship, of being a Christian, of being a church. Our real task is to become polished, to shine in a way that resembles Christ disciples, that mirrors biblical Christianity, and that reflects Christ’s church.
The Bible is replete with various shines of this image of the church, but Acts 11 is a chapter that mirrors some principles of the is shine that ...
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