What's a "Faithclip" Anyway?
Faithclips are clipart images used in the communication of one's
faith. For Christians, faithclips may include everything
from witnessing and "gospel message" images to personal and
public expressions of our hope in Jesus Christ. All
Christian faithclips therefore center on and revolve around the
Lord Jesus. Without Him there is no church, no Christian,
no forgiveness of sin or hope of eternal life. Jesus Christ is
everything to the Christian church and to any kind of Christian
faithclip.
Why do some faithclips focus on the Bible or some other aspect
of the Christian experience?
A good question and one that's easy to answer and understand.
As Jesus Christ impacts our life with God's own power and Holy
Spirit, we find that he is at work in many of the things we do
each day, such as pray or reading Scripture. Prayer is
nothing more (or less) than a human heart and soul in
communication with God's own divine Self (or Spirit), through
Jesus Christ. It is natural, then, for Christians to
express their faith in God's grace and power at work through
prayer.
The Bible is God's written Word to all human beings. It is
a compilation, over a period of some 5,000 years, of the
messages and life experiences of men, women and children whose
lives were directly impacted by God. Holy persons of old
recorded, kept, and passed along the messages and direct
interventions of God. God's own Holy Spirit was powerfully
at work in this recording, preservation, and propagation of Holy
Scripture (or Writings).
The Bible is very important to anyone who wishes to truly know
Jesus Christ. God is not like men. We change with
time, and our ideas and opinions tend to shift and stray with
the passing years. But God always speaks the same powerful
truth. He does not change with time (since He is well
beyond the realm and influence of time). His message to
human beings does not change. In the Bible, we can see
that the same message continues from Genesis to Revelation (or
the Book of the Apocalypse). What God spoke to Adam and
Eve in the beginning is still the truth. In each
succeeding generations, the Lord God spoke, adding more details,
filling out the picture, if you will, of what He first began to
say in the beginning.
Through Moses, many generations after Adam, God revealed more
fully His own perfect righteousness, and His desire for human
beings to behave kindly and fairly with each other.
Through Jesus Christ we see God's ultimate answer to human
weakness and failure. In every generation of human
existence, we have shown ourselves unable to live perfect lives,
without sin. But in Jesus Christ, God has canceled out all
the sins and everything Satan might dig up to use in accusing us
before God. Jesus actually became sin for us, being nailed
to the cross in our place.
The Bible talks about these things far more clearly, and more
thoroughly than I have here. it shows whole lives, and
whole histories of families and nations. It gives many
examples of faith and obedience, as well as human failure.
It shows heroes as real people. It shows sinners who
finally turned to God for forgiveness and help. It is a
most wonderful and powerful book, revealing all that we need to
know about faith, God, holiness, eternal life, and salvation.
Faithclips are expressions of faith. Christian faithclips
are expressions of Christian believers (human beings who trust
in Jesus) who want to share what they have discovered in God's
love and grace.
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