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Fireside Chat with the Mayor:
Let me start off by saying I know it's not winter in Iowa. But, winter will come and having a fireside chat is a timeless way to share what is on our hearts.
I'm hoping to have these chats with you, the wonderful people of Freehold, from time to time. It helps me by visiting about a few things that come along and I hope it will help you by responding with what is on your mind.
As I move about our City, I am struck with how beautiful and orderly things are. We are a City filled to the brim with proporous people, beautiful homes and businesses that hum like well-oiled machines. Things could not be better. But, could they? That question is what moved me to hold this fireside chat.
I must be careful here to hold to a disclaimer. I am not a Pastor. I know little of theological things. Yet, as a politican, I am not removed from the unspoken or that hidden from view. Indeed, it is the job of a politican to be tuned in to things people might have on their minds, but do not express.
What concerns me these days is that things are too easy in Freehold. Our prosperity and easy living may mask a responsibilty that is ours but one we too easily push into the background. That is the responsibility to suffer.
While I am not a Pastor, it seems to me the Bible tells us that life is not to be easy all the time. We should be introspective enough to always be questioning our own worthiness.
Now, while I realize the we True Christians™ have mastered the art of avoiding sin, it seems we need to measure ourselves against ever higher standards. For example, our charge as Christians is to convert sinners. Have we done this in every case? Have there been sinners who have visited us here and left without excepting Jesus? Have we quoted scripture at every opportunity? Have we encountered homers and let them go on their way without a hint of change in their choice of lifestyles?
In the midst of our pleasant life in Freehold, I hope we all seek to measure ourselves against an every higher reach of the Christian ideal.
Thank you my friends for sharing the minute with me. Have a gloious day.
Let me start off by saying I know it's not winter in Iowa. But, winter will come and having a fireside chat is a timeless way to share what is on our hearts.
I'm hoping to have these chats with you, the wonderful people of Freehold, from time to time. It helps me by visiting about a few things that come along and I hope it will help you by responding with what is on your mind.
As I move about our City, I am struck with how beautiful and orderly things are. We are a City filled to the brim with proporous people, beautiful homes and businesses that hum like well-oiled machines. Things could not be better. But, could they? That question is what moved me to hold this fireside chat.
I must be careful here to hold to a disclaimer. I am not a Pastor. I know little of theological things. Yet, as a politican, I am not removed from the unspoken or that hidden from view. Indeed, it is the job of a politican to be tuned in to things people might have on their minds, but do not express.
What concerns me these days is that things are too easy in Freehold. Our prosperity and easy living may mask a responsibilty that is ours but one we too easily push into the background. That is the responsibility to suffer.
While I am not a Pastor, it seems to me the Bible tells us that life is not to be easy all the time. We should be introspective enough to always be questioning our own worthiness.
Now, while I realize the we True Christians™ have mastered the art of avoiding sin, it seems we need to measure ourselves against ever higher standards. For example, our charge as Christians is to convert sinners. Have we done this in every case? Have there been sinners who have visited us here and left without excepting Jesus? Have we quoted scripture at every opportunity? Have we encountered homers and let them go on their way without a hint of change in their choice of lifestyles?
In the midst of our pleasant life in Freehold, I hope we all seek to measure ourselves against an every higher reach of the Christian ideal.
Thank you my friends for sharing the minute with me. Have a gloious day.
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