Thursday of week 24 in Ordinary Time

I love the beginning of the first reading when Paul reminds the young Christian Church, “…if you hold fast to the word I preached”. We, as a Christian Church today, should also hold fast to the Gospel. But we need to ask ourselves, “Why do we believe the Gospel?” And do we put our faith into action and change our lives to conform to the teachings of Jesus, for if we do not “do something” with the word we have been taught in scripture, have we “…believed in vain”?
As teachers, parents, lay and ordained ministers we are called to share the teachings of Jesus, to live what we have embraced and to share not only the teachings BUT also the “whys” of our embracement of the teachings. One of the biggest events to understand is that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scripture. How do we embrace this event, teach and explain this event to others?