Rev Bill

I have posted my sermon from yesterday on my sermon blog. It’s the third sermon in my god’s Advice For Daily Living series based on 1 Timothy — taken from 1 Timothy 3:1-13 and entitled “Don’t Compromise Your Integrity”.

Here’s a portion of it:

We call ourselves Christians.
Do you know what that means?
That means that we are saying that we belong to Christ – that we are following Christ. That name “Christian” was first used derogatorily — as a put down – towards those who followed the teachings of Christ. We now use it proudly. We are proud to let the world know that we are followers of Christ. But – if we are going to proudly call ourselves Christians – we are going to have to make sure we are making Christ proud by what we do – and representing Christ well in the world.
What that means is that we can’t claim to be followers of Christ and do things Christ would not have us be doing.
What that means us that we can’t claim to be followers of Christ and try to do things in secret that Christ would not have us be doing in public – first of all God is watching us at all times – and secondly more times that not it becomes public knowledge before it’s all said and done.
What that means is that we can’t even do things that are innocent and not wrong but may appear to be wrong. We can’t even give the appearance that we are doing things that would compromise our integrity.

We call ourselves Christians.
Part of what that means is we don’t compromise our integrity.

You can read the sermon here.

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