“What’s important to me in my walk of faith is my relationship with God. Next comes my family. Christianity is about things of the spirit, not about the ways of the world.” Many American Christians (perhaps some in this parish) feel this way. How about you? Does a Christian have a responsibility for society? Should the Church play a role in trying to turn American society around? Let me try to answer those questions by asking you a question. Do you believe what the Bible teaches? If so, let’s see what our First Lesson from the book of Jeremiah proclaims.

The text we are considering from Jeremiah for this Sunday is part of a letter written after Jerusalem had fallen to the Babylonians, and many Hebrews had been sent into exile in the foreign land of Babylon. Life for these exiles was not e…