What Does God Require of You?

Pastor Creasy opened by sharing statistics about foster care and his family's adoption story. He explained that Micah is structured like a courtroom drama, with God as judge and Israel/Judah as defendants trying to hide sin behind religious activities. The text shows them bargaining with increasingly elaborate sacrifices, but God's response through Micah is simple: do justice, love mercy, walk humbly. Creasy connected this to foster care, sharing how God called his family back into fostering when they met a baby who needed weekend placement. He argued that caring for orphans exemplifies all three requirements - it's just, merciful, and humbling. He challenged the church that biblical justice means upholding God's standards and seeking others' welfare above our own.

In this message:

Biblical justice is about maintaining God's good order in all of life so that everyone can experience it.There is nothing more just, merciful, and humbling than caring for a child who cannot care for himself and has no one else to care for him.Fifty percent of homeless people today have at one time been in the foster care system.Humility is not about thinking less of yourself but thinking about yourself less.To claim we know God and fail to love our neighbor as ourselves is the definition of hypocrisy.