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Serving God with His people at Faith OPC has been a great joy and blessing. When I grow up, I want to umpire Little League Baseball. I will revel on that day when I can say to a 10-year-old boy after four pitched balls, "Take a walk in the sunshine." My wife of 30+ years, Peggy, consistently demonstrates the love of Christ and remains my very best friend. Our six children, our four lovely, sweetie-pie daughters-in-law, and our four grandchildren serve as resident theologians.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Is Your Repentance Showing?


“The problems that the church faces today are not, then, first of all a product of the world's hostility. The world is always hostile to the church. The problems are rather the result of her failure to be pleasing to her Lord. The church is in danger not of the world's wrath, but of God's. As Eliot said, it is when we will not worship the jealous Lord that we have to pay our respects to Hitler and Stalin. The world's attacks on the church, then, are not overcome primarily by direct counterattack. The church's first response to legal attacks must not be legal; her first reaction to slander must not be self-defense. The church's first response to the world's hostitility must always and ever be abandonment of idols and repentance toward God. Her first response must always and even be to return to exclusive devotion to her Lord.”

The Kingdom and the Power by Peter Leithart, p. 183

G. Mark Sumpter
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