‘Saints’ are who you are if you are a follower of Jesus Christ, adopted into the family of God, borne of the Spirit of God. You are a saint according to the way the word was used in the bible though not according to the way some use it today.

I think immediately of the Catholic Church. They have a different type of Saint, a Saint according to the Catholic Church and they are welcome to them. They are almost always dead I think and have little if anything in common with the living saints that were spoken of in scripture.

In the same way, the spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know shat we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself interceds for us with groans that words cannot express. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God’s will. Romans 8:26,27

For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the Saints, I have not stopped giving thanks for you remembering you in my prayers. I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened inorder that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saint, and his incomparable great power for us who believe. Ephesians 1:15-19

It’s you and I the living saints that this weblog is about not the saints of the Catholic Church. Not that they aren’t alive in a spiritual sense, they are, but we who are yet journeying on this earth are the Saints of Central Wisconsin and the Saints of all other parts of the earth that will yet read and respond to these messages.

Grace and peace to you Saints in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord.