Persistence

Is faith a gift or a choice? Is it something God does in us or something we do for God? The answer is, “Yes!” Faith is a mixture of all that and more. It’s a partnership with God as we enter into relationship for our good and the good of the community and the world around us. We have the choice every day to live by our faith, to be shaped by our faith, and to submit all our actions and relationships to the measure of faith. In this worship series, we’ll examine what it means to be people who choose faith.

Verse 1 of Luke 18 says “One day Jesus told his disciples a story to show that they should always pray and never give up.”

Persistence. What does that mean for us as individuals and as a community of faith? Week after week, we pray for God’s kingdom to come and for God’s will to be done on earth as it is in heaven. As we pray that prayer, we are signing up again to be a part of the redeeming force at work, reconciling the world to God. It’s a high calling, but we are up to it.