Title: Confident Trust
Author: Christopher Harbin
Text: 1 John 5:9-18
Trust is an important commodity. Trust can make life a simple proposition. Trust can make life a breeze. Broken trust complicates that simplicity and peacefulness like nothing else can. Trust enables us to walk down a sidewalk, obey traffic rules, step onto a bridge, or rest our bodies on a pew. Trust enables us to walk under a roof, take refuge in the shelter of a tree, or share a meal with one another. Trust makes it possible to set aside our defenses to enable rest and relationship. Trust allows us to interact with each other on any basis other than fear. How does our confidence in God measure up?
My paternal grandfather used to sell life insurance. I found that out only after I had gotten my license to sell insurance. I've always felt that life insurance was badly named. It's as inaptly named as fire, health, or auto insurance. They don't insure us against the thing the policy is written about. Rather, they offer a measure of financial compensation to those left behind by the ravages of life in its multiple forms. Those policies tell us that when the event in question occurs, we, our families, or our heirs have some financial resource to assist in coping with the financial burden occasioned by said events.
The first life insurance program I am aware of began in the Presbyterian Church, seeking to offset the difficulties of the widows left behind by their minister husbands on the event of their deaths. Unlike the parishioners they served, these ministers did not own farms or houses. Their widows and families could be left homeless and destitute upon the death of their minister husband or father. The church decided to establish a fund to which all clergy and churches would contribute to care for families left behind upon the death of clergy. They called it the Presbyterian Minister's Fund, a policies of which my parents purchased long ago for themselves and their children.
This wa ...
Author: Christopher Harbin
Text: 1 John 5:9-18
Trust is an important commodity. Trust can make life a simple proposition. Trust can make life a breeze. Broken trust complicates that simplicity and peacefulness like nothing else can. Trust enables us to walk down a sidewalk, obey traffic rules, step onto a bridge, or rest our bodies on a pew. Trust enables us to walk under a roof, take refuge in the shelter of a tree, or share a meal with one another. Trust makes it possible to set aside our defenses to enable rest and relationship. Trust allows us to interact with each other on any basis other than fear. How does our confidence in God measure up?
My paternal grandfather used to sell life insurance. I found that out only after I had gotten my license to sell insurance. I've always felt that life insurance was badly named. It's as inaptly named as fire, health, or auto insurance. They don't insure us against the thing the policy is written about. Rather, they offer a measure of financial compensation to those left behind by the ravages of life in its multiple forms. Those policies tell us that when the event in question occurs, we, our families, or our heirs have some financial resource to assist in coping with the financial burden occasioned by said events.
The first life insurance program I am aware of began in the Presbyterian Church, seeking to offset the difficulties of the widows left behind by their minister husbands on the event of their deaths. Unlike the parishioners they served, these ministers did not own farms or houses. Their widows and families could be left homeless and destitute upon the death of their minister husband or father. The church decided to establish a fund to which all clergy and churches would contribute to care for families left behind upon the death of clergy. They called it the Presbyterian Minister's Fund, a policies of which my parents purchased long ago for themselves and their children.
This wa ...
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