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Thursday, November 30, 2006
Seerveld on Thanksgiving
For American Thanksgiving last week, Canadian scholar Gideon Strauss quoted this from Calvin Seerveld’s “In the Fields of the Lord”:
The complexity of creation’s problems and the incompleteness of believers’ consecration must not divert us from our calling: to try to translate our Christian captivity and allegiance into specific, comprehensive and meaningful historical service to God Almighty, in the realisation that only people acting out of wholehearted gratitude to God for their being taken up into the body of Christ are good stewards of the office and gift entrusted to them. And it is this evangelical Reformational spirit—prompted, for example, by Paul’s words to Timothy that nothing of creation is secular but all is good, holy! sacred! if able to be received with thanksgiving and kept in the context of effective witness to God’s glory (1 Timothy 4: 1-11)—that offers us [...] sound biblical direction. Then we shall neither overestimate the effect of sin upon the world and reject all non-ecclesiastical realms as not significant to God, nor shall we underestimate sin’s perversion of the world with its culture and try only to add Christian touches here and there; but we shall see that whatever one dedicatedly executes proportionate to one’s full qualifications (whether as mother, senator, or janitor) is full-time service in the Kingdom of God ...
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