Ok…so I have a secret…I am a big history nerd. Now when I say this I don’t mean I like little pieces of history here and there no I really enjoy the stuff. I love it when I randomly come upon the history documentaries. I live in New Orleans and the one thing I want to do before I leave is go to the WWII museum. I love visiting plantation homes, for Halloween one year I so want to dress like a Southern Belle from Plantation days. I also love to read but even the trend of history even extends to the book I read, most of the books I have are historical fiction. I would love to live in a really old house one day….squeaking boards, claw-foot tub, wrap-around porch…all that stuff. So needless to say...I am a nerd and I love history…but it is something that not many people know.
Having shared the above info it should be as no surprise that in I am really enjoying my Baptist Heritage class this semester, learning about our origins and the stories behind the different churches and beliefs that helped to start the Southern Baptist. Well, today in our class we were discussing “Baptist Expansion” our professor pulls out a book that was the Philadelphia Confession of Faith from 1742, which was like so cool to me to see this book from so long ago. However, it got me thinking…my mind tends to wonder. What legacy are we leaving behind? How are people going to view us 100,200,300, 400 years from now? What books are professors going to be pulling out and show students during class?
My hope for those of us who are believers we have left a legacy. A legacy that says we were passionate follower of Christ and that when people looked at our lives they can say that was someone who lived a life dedicated to Christ and how he called believers to live. Not only that we lived a life that honored Christ, but that we shared Christ whenever we had the chance. So what legacy are you leaving?
