SHARP ERO UPDATE #4

Friday December 7th, 2007

Devoted believers,

This past Monday December 3rd 2007 at noon the Lord opened up the door to do the Sermon on the Mount drama for Regent’s COMM school chapel. Father God blessed it! I felt like a weak and unworthy vessel privileged to participate in the delivery of the words of Jesus through the flow of the Holy Spirit. It took place in the luxurious lobby of the communications building. It was the most people I have personally seen in the lobby way at one time. Still there was room for many more.

The event was recorded by media services at Regent and should be streamed online sometime soon. Also separate footage was captured for the long term documentary project. Amen. The next scheduled performance is 6:30pm Sunday December 16th at the Light of Life Church.

The fall semester at Regent has come to its last few days. I was fortune to be introduced to the story and writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer this semester. The crucial text in his life and work was the gospel of Matthew chapters 5,6, and 7; the Sermon on the Mount! He was one of the few that accurately identified and actively resisted the demonic monstrosity of Nazism. He was arrested and hung a few weeks before World War II ended.

In reference to Matthew 7:14 “small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it” Bonhoeffer writes in his book The Cost of Discipleship, “The path of discipleship is narrow, and it is fatally easy to miss one’s way and stray from the path, even after years of discipleship…To be called to a life of extraordinary quality, to live up to it, and yet to be unconscious of it is indeed a narrow way… But if we behold Jesus Christ going on before step by step, we shall not go astray.” (190).

See you in 2008 for the next first Friday SHARP ERO update! Merry Christmas. Happy New Year. Praise the name of the Lord Jesus Christ! Shalom.