Our Place in the World

    Where is your citizenship?  To what land do you belong?  It’s hard for most of us to imagine being citizens of any other country than the place of our birth.  We know the customs of our country; we all have a stake in seeing that our country is profitable and secure; we absorb the political opinions, habits, and preferences of our citizenry.
    Early Christians shook up their neighbors because they marched to the beat of a different drummer.  They refused to take their cues from the prevailing social culture of their neighbors.  The need to “fit in