Friday, September 30, 2005
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.
To communicate in both action and deep we need to be sharing the gospels, but even more, we need to be living the truths He calls us to preach. This means that we treat others with respect and love. That we do not place judgments on others but instead leave that for God to do. If we “echo God’s reality” then we have the power to influence any community to be followers of Jesus Christ. All things are possible through God. Jesus was a living example for what it means to “echo God’s reality”. He was in constant prayer and connection with God to make sure that his message was truly from God, then He spread the message to others, and lived out what He preached.