Call to Action 2.8.2026

Go into the world with a story that only you have, how God has used you, spoke to you, transformed you. And then together, may we go into the darkest places, into the darkest times, and bring the light of hope and the light of love to a people that are thirsty for the waters of salvation. And may we never forget, never forget that the way we live, Monday through Saturday, tells the world and God whether our faith is authentic, and whether we have been changed at all by the power of the love of Christ our lord. [01:00:41] (63 seconds)  #ShareYourStoryOfFaith

Isaiah reminds us that faith is never meant to stay safely contained inside of sanctuaries. Faith, true worship, spills out into the world, into the streets. It feeds the hungry, it houses the homeless, it clothes the naked, it protests and breaks systems that crush people, and it repairs those that can heal people. God says, if you do this, if you live this way, then light will break forth like the dawn through you. [00:41:01] (41 seconds)  #FaithThatActs

The world doesn't need more religious performance that is not backed up with action. The world doesn't need more pious people that act like they've never heard of Jesus. The world needs people shaped by love who are willing to act and who are willing to cross barriers, to embrace a broken and hurting humanity, to feed, to speak, to repair, to stand with the vulnerable and the broken. That's what it means to let your light shine before others, not so we look good, but so God's justice becomes visible in the world that we live in. Standing alongside people with empathy and compassion and a love that moves you to see Christ in another person, every other person, no matter what. [00:48:43] (69 seconds)  #LoveInAction

Silence isn't an option, and neither is the idolatry of power. Epiphany reminds us that Christ's light has already been revealed. The question is whether we will carry that light into the world or not. Isaiah promises that if we do, then our light will rise in the darkness, then our ruins will be rebuilt, and we will be called the menders of the broken and the restorer of livable streets. [00:59:01] (36 seconds)  #CarryTheLight

Jesus warns that salt can sometimes lose its saltiness. Light can be hidden under a bushel basket. Not because salt or the light is bad, but because sometimes we choose comfort over courage. It's easier to keep private faith, and it's easier and safer oftentimes to stay quiet. It's tempting to believe that worship alone is enough, But Isaiah and Jesus say, oh, otherwise. [00:48:02] (41 seconds)  #CourageOverComfort

I will do my best to help other people at all times. And the Scout Law doesn't describe abstract ideals, it calls for character that shows up in real life situations. A scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent. If we all live those ideals, especially those folk in Washington DC. If we all lived such ideals, wouldn't the world be a much brighter place? We would have a whole lot more cities on a hill shining the light of God into the world. [00:46:01] (54 seconds)  #LiveScoutValues

The people are doing all the religious things. They're going to church, or for them, they're going to temple. They're worshiping. They're doing the sacrifices. They're praying. They're showing up, at least. And God yet says, that's not the fast that I have in mind. Look, you fast only to quarrel and to fight. Is this not the fast I choose? To lose the bonds of injustice, release wicked restraints, to untying the ropes of the yoke, setting free the mistreated, and breaking every yoke. [00:39:34] (42 seconds)  #JusticeNotRitual

In other words, your worship your worship hasn't changed your behavior, which is so important to God and a central message of the prophets. Our faith should reflect in our behaviors in the world and toward one another. But in our story today from Isaiah, their faith had not turned into love in action. There wasn't a sense of doing justice and pursuing justice, and that's where this passage becomes a call to action for believers. [00:40:16] (46 seconds)  #TurnWorshipIntoAction