The Portrait of a Christian in the World

Lisa is an eighth grade student at Covenant Day School in Charlotte, North Carolina. She wrote this paper for Bible class. “The Christians…dwell in their own native land, but as strangers. They take part in all things as citizens; and suffer all things as foreigners. They marry like all others; they have children; but they do not cast away their offspring. They have the table in common, but not wives. They are flesh, but they do not live after the flesh. They live upon the earth, but are...