Gask Kirk

Gask Church in Scotland's Perth and Kinross district was built in 1800 and the whiteness of its building provided a somewhat Mediterranean feel against that deep blue, autumnal sky. Although an online source says it is left open, our visit proved otherwise, though it was still a pleasant stop off.

The Lord Jesus warned about whitewashed sepulchres, though I have no evidence that anything nefarious or untoward occurs at Gask’s nice, white kirk. On the other hand, we humans may look externally attractive but are inwardly ugly on account of the Fall; our covering of goodness invariably belies an internal corruption. The gospel is not just about justifying the sinner and declaring him righteous before the great tribunal, wonderful though this is; it is also about his being progressively sanctified, his calling and election proved by the changing of his character and the purifying of his spirit.

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Psalm 51:7

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