We had a great meeting on October 10. Our discussion started with reading Matthew 10:32-33, where Christ talked about confessing his name before others. Our conversation went to the difficult things about confession. Soon it became apparent that there were two topics we were addressing: confession or acknowledging Christ to others and confessing our sins. We chose to focus this session on acknowledging Christ and save confessing sins for next time.
We enjoyed lively discuss of these passages: Romans 10:9-10, Romans 14:11, Philippians 2:11, and Hebrews 13:15. We talked about our fears of acknowledging Christ. It came down to this: we get excited about stuff we believe it - and that includes Christ.
In our final thoughts, we talked about that there are areas of the world that it is difficult to confess Christ. For example: talk and coverage abounds about Islam and that it's the fastest growing religion in our country. However, in countries of Muslim majority, acknowledging Christ is most difficult.
Two questions came up:
Why are people so drawn to Islam? Why is it the fastest growing religion in the US? How should Christians respond to Muslims? How should we act about the purchase of property in Kokomo to spread Muslim culture?
We have a friend in Europe who can help us answer these questions.
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