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About Last Sunday: We Believe In Doctrine & Demonstration
The Message
A thunderous message about God’s call for obedience in the face of indomitable odds was uttered at Freedom Life Church this Sunday. Minister Samuels transmitted what can now, in retrospect, be understood as a brief and efficacious sermon on the sovereignty of God in the face of a deadly storm that promised to sift the life of Christ’s disciples and, in light of this, Jesus’s resolute stance to relax and nap in said storm. Christ’s conduct reflected His nature and the storm was but a milestone in the path of His mission to deliver and rescue an oppressed soul on the other side of the lake.
The passage in question is well known (see below) and often recited as a call for every follower of Christ the world over to rely on the silent yet present person of Jesus in the boat [life]. Though he sleeps, remains quiet, and is, what we believe, unresponsive to the calamity that shreds the fabric of our reality apart, He remains in control.
Jesus Stills The Storm
35 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.” 36 And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. Other boats were with him. 37 A great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was…
