Dead People Walking

Fellow Labourers-

This article should cause all of us to look deep into our souls and see if there are grounds for healing, forgiveness and reconciliation. This week for me was interesting in many ways. On Monday I got a call from a friend in Trinidad asking me to pick up a couple and take them to Montego Bay. I changed my schedule and obliged. When I met the couple at the airport and we introduced ourselves they told me that they were briefed on my activities in the Church. As we started the trip the wife said to me "As a Pastor what are your views on marriage and divorce?"

Now this question in my mind came from nowhere, since nothing we were talking about had anything to do with marriage or divorce. After I gave my initial response she said to me "we are on the same page". Then I told her about a book I read recently on the subject from a Jamaican Pastor living in Trinidad. After we spoke about the book for a while she smiled and said to me that that Pastor was her Pastor, but most of the congregation did not know he was a divorcee before he wrote the book. He is no longer at the Church.

She then told me that Woodrow Kroll of Back to the Bible fame was in Trinidad the week before and the same question was posed to him. In his response he said one word always operates in his mind, and that is the servant of the Lord must be "BLAMELESS".

The subject above is very relevant at this time. We must present our bodies a living sacrifice. If we bear in mind that a sacrifice is a dead thing, then we must present our bodies a living dead thing. We must be "Dead people walking." Help me Lord!!

Pax Vobiscum

Robert A. Stewart J.P.
Pastor