General Theme for the Week: The Christian Message is Relevant

Today's Lesson: The Church Affects Big Community Issues

On this edition of One Single Story, Pastors Stephen Mizell and Alyssa Bream discuss the following questions:

How does the letter of Philemon apply in our modern society concerning the issues of social, racial, and economic barriers?

What is the responsibility of the church concerning settling major social issues among its people?

Paul basically appealed for a fugitive who had committed some major well-known wrong to be forgiven, restored, and accepted as a brother in Christ not only by Philemon, but by the entire congregation. Can the Christian faith truly provide such unbelievable acceptance for the social outcast?

The reading for the day is Philemon 1.