Whose opinion matters anyway?
October 25, 2020
Reformation Sunday: Giving Thanks for the Gospel
Pastor Rob focused his sermon today for the youth who were being confirmed.
To be a youth is to receive lots of advice. Pastor Rob offers that one can successfully ignore one particular piece of advice often given to young people: The opinions of others don’t matter.
This is not true at all — what others think does impact our lives. However, we know that youth tend to listen a great deal to the voices of their piers, which often lead them astray and beat them down. How do we learn which opinions and whose voices we are to listen to?
In confirmation – and in our lives as baptized Christians – we are confirming the desire to be a disciple of Jesus, which means to put his voice, his counsel, his “opinion” first in our lives.
Most importantly, and this is the Gospel, God has rendered his judgement, publicly declared his opinion in the cross and in your baptism: You are a beloved child of God.
Photo Credit: https://medium.com/the-gyst/how-to-stop-living-other-peoples-opinions-of-your-life-e49b8e33b11d