Grace Communion Melbourne Fellowship Group
Melbourne, Florida

Dear Church family,

 Looking forward to our time of Fellowship tomorrow at our monthly Potluck and Bible Study tomorrow. Thinking about Mike Baron’s service next Tuesday had me remembering a Bible Study in their home a little over a decade ago. 

Our topic of discussion centered around God and science, and how well-meaning Christian authorities sometimes pit God against a discovery that broadened our understanding of the Universe. 

We can’t help but be tempted to mold God into our image… Meaning we tend to see him in agreement with our commonly held view of life, the natural world, and the universe we inhabit. If the world makes sense to us through a particular lens of understanding, we believe God looks at it the same way. A deeper reverence for our Creator, and a lessor trust in our ability to know all things, (humility), is necessary to grow in faith while God allows us to use the intellect He has given us. While we tend to be a bit superstitious by nature, sometimes fear of the unknown has been used tactically to control the uninformed. Not that this could ever happen in our day, right? (Consider the ongoing controversy surrounding a rising temperature gradient on earth.)

On one of his last voyages in 1503, Christopher Columbus and his men were stranded on Jamaica after their ships were damaged in a storm. Worms that thrived in the tropics were also eating the wooden hulls of their ships which were constructed in Spain. Columbus, even with a limited knowledge of astronomy in the 16^th century, managed to convince the Indians to provide food for his hungry crew by warning them that the moon would otherwise, “Rise angry and inflamed to indicate the evil that God would inflict upon them.”

   God has accommodated man’s learning curve in history because he knows our beginning form our end… He gave us creative and investigative minds to search out the world we live in. It seems the more we think we know, the more we realize is still a mystery!

Your Pastor and brother,

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