Obey

I interview local law enforcement officers for a newspaper series “Answering the Call.”  One question I like to ask is, “What can the community do to help you do your job?” The officers have given readers a lot of good pointers such as, keep a record of serial numbers, if you see something say something and just continue to give us your support. Recently one officer kept his response short and simple, “Obey the law!” Not unlike the officer’s perspectives, most of us have ideas about how to help the church expand the Kingdom of God, but I can hear Jesus keeping it short and simple, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it” (Luke 11:28 NIV).