A Light Upon a Hill

We are called to be a light on a hill acting as a beacon to a lost and dying world. Matthew 5:14-16

How do we go about doing this?

Assuming that I show you photographs of women; one with long hair wearing a covering on her head similar to the bonnets in the television show Little House on the Prairie. Then I show you a photograph of another woman smoking, and finally a third woman pictured with short hair, body piercings, and tattoos.

If I ask which woman is a Christian who accepts that God commands a wife to submit, obey, and respect her husband?

Any guesses on what photograph people will choose?

In a fallen world where Christians are supposed to be different from the world and lights upon a hill, how does the world see people who:

• affirmatively and readily speak up about God’s gender roles for men and women.
• live out God’s instructions for the wife to be obedient, reverent, and submissive.
• a woman who wears a covering on her head to worship.
• a man whose wife chooses to wear a covering on her head to service.
• a father who requires his daughters who are living under his roof to properly cover their heads.

These are rhetorical questions. I know the answers.

And I believe that you know the answers too!

So, how can we in good faith say these answers are culturally irrelevant?

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