For May 24, 2026
Keeping Precious the Faith by Greg Holmes, D.MIN – Director of Missions serving 17 churches
JESUS-FOLLOWERS ARE CALLED to live a holy life—a life set apart for God. This is despite the forces and desires of the world that surrounds us. We choose as an intentional path a life that desires outcomes of righteousness. The intended end result(s) of deliberately and positively chosen moral, civic, legal, and social choices should lead to pleasant intersections and interactions with like-minded and like-Spirited people, each of whom have a share and a vested interest in the zeitgeist of the community of faith. But this ideal must be forged and protected in the surrounding worldviews that are ever-competing for our mind-space, our heart-space, and even our lifeblood. So Jesus warns his disciples, and this includes you and me, “I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves. Be on your guard.” (Matt. 10:16-17a)