Pidgin on the Pigeon

This past weekend, we went to River's Edge again, sort of a second home church. There was a missionary from Sierra Leone, Michael Turay, who has a relationship with the pastor at Rivers Edge. He began his message in what I'm guessing was Pidgin English, because I knew just enough words to confuse me. After the audience was confused enough, he began by asking this question. "Why are you alive." My trite and careless answer, in my head was "Because I haven't died yet." But he made a similar argument to CS Lewis with his point. Lewis argued that if a person has a desire, there is something for it. Turay argued that if you are alive, there is a purpose for it.

We know from the Westminster Shorter Catechism that "the chief end of man is to glorify God." But how do we do it? Turay pointed to 1 Peter 3:18 as his text: Grow. That's how believers glorify God. Grow. It's a command, it's how we demonstrate our love, it's what we have to do. If we're not growing as believers, we're sinning. It's that simple.