Only God can cleanse your leper soul
by Julian Mann, TCW:
What is the mark of a real, committed Christian? We might say, a person who knows their Bible and is keen to study the Bible on their own and with others; a person who supports prayer meetings and is willing to pray out loud; a person who is active in evangelism. And those certainly are among the marks of a committed Christian person. They are important evidences of real and growing Christian faith.
But there is a more fundamental answer to the question: what is the mark of a real, committed Christian? And it is an answer that goes to the heart of a person. It’s about the state of a person’s heart. It’s possible to go through the motions of those other things, Bible study, prayer meetings, evangelism, but the more fundamental indicator of our Christian commitment is about how at the core of our being, in our hearts, we are responding to God.
This morning in our story from Luke’s Gospel we meet a man whose heart was by God’s grace in the right place, and so he’s a spiritual role model for you and me, a very unlikely role model as we shall see but a role model nonetheless. He’s someone you and I should want to be like spiritually in our hearts.
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