Our calling
Schultze says in his passage that as Christians we are to “echo God’s reality”. This phrase has two very important aspects that one needs to understand in order to fulfill this calling. One aspect is our call to “echo”. This word can be described as repeating something, or in a deeper sense taking a sound and duplicating it over and over. As children of God we are called to be His echo. This means we need to do our best to replicate His words and His teachings. We need His words and love and power to be able to make any sound because an echo without a source is silence. As an echo though, our message can dim. We need to come back to the source in order to be refilled and let our echo overflow with the word of God. The second part of the quote understands God’s “reality”. We need to truly understand His message to be able to echo the correct one. We need to be deep in His word and in prayer and feel a genuine connection between the divinity of the universe and ourselves. Schultze says “God hold us accountable for how we communicate, for what we communicate, and for how our communication affects others” (Schultze 16). God wants us to communicate His message effectively in action and in deed.
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