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Faith in Action: From Creation to Restoration
The purpose of this sermon and study series is to assure us that faith in the Creator is one of the greatest assets believers possess. Faith, in a spiritual context, means to rely upon, to trust, to believe. It is the mental, moral, and spiritual conviction that the Creator stands with us during good and bad times. It is the deeply rooted knowledge that the Creator has the power to keep, sustain, and provide for us, no matter the circumstance.
Faith does not allow us to abandon our responsibility, however. It does not permit us to think or behave in ways that relieve us of active participation in resolving whatever confronts us. We must engage and work as if all the responsibility for what we are experiencing belongs to us while simultaneously believing that the Creator is both able and willing to deliver, provide, or relieve us of the burden(s)/obligation(s) we are bearing.
Faith and action are two sides of the same coin (James 2:26). Our ancestors both believed in the Creator and did the work necessary to improve their individual and collective circumstances. Harriet Tubman believed and led enslaved Africans to freedom. Ida B. Wells believed and wrote powerful articles recounting the injustices visited upon oppressed Black people in the segregated South. Mary McLeod Bethune believed and built an institution to educate our people. Faith and action go together. It is never enough to simply believe. Nor is it ever enough to simply act. We must do both.
Finally, faith requires us to trust, to rely upon and to believe in our own capacities to produce the outcomes we envision. The Creator is as much in us as around and over and behind us. Remember that NTU, the life-giving, life-sustaining, life-renewing energy or force that the Bantu peoples of South, Central and Eastern Africa named, is synonymous with the idea of Spirit that is so pervasive in Christian theology. We, therefore, are as powerful and as capable as we believe we are. We are never, ever under any circumstance disconnected from the Divine Source. We have power!!!
Pastor Lomax
Wednesday, October 1
Biblical Text: Revelation 12:10-12
Theme: “The Faith of the Martyrs”
Wednesday, October 8
Biblical Text: Revelation 21:1-5
Theme: “The Faith to Finish”
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