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Move to Epistle
[Posted 2025-01-25]
This year we've switched our focus a bit with where we are posting about ministry, moving over to Epistle.
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One of the other difference between Christianity and other belief systems is the body. In some worldviews, the body is an inherently evil thing we should try to escape, being solely focused on the "spiritual". In others, the body is all there is, there is no spiritual. A Biblical worldview shows that we are both/and , not either/or. In this passage we learn God made us from conception - he didn't make a body we would one day use, he made us, including our body. In other passages we learn of the glorified resurrection body we will one day have - we won't one day be disembodied spirits floating in the ether. We have been made to be both physical and spiritual at the same time. They are both part of who we are. And we can and are made to glorify God with both our body and our spirit. Praise God for how amazing His work is in making such complexities like ourselves!
We've just been in one of the care homes, sharing songs and spending time with the residents - we've got the choruses we sing most weeks that they all know, and then I'll share a newer worship song, as well as one of the team giving a devotional message to encourage them in the Lord
The world typically goes one of two ways when confronted with these sayings of Jesus. The Church can too. Those in the world either laugh at them and outright reject them, saying that it is unrealistic to operate this way - 'might makes right', 'we must stamp out injustice with an equal amount of violence', 'fight fire with fire' and so on. Jesus' message is nonsensical to so many because of how countercultural it is - that the way to peace is through loving others, not fighting them. But there are some in the world who can sense the inherent wisdom in Jesus' teaching. Often, however, they point to these sayings as being abstract truths that Jesus just do happened to speak, failing or just refusing to wrestle with the rest of what Jesus had to say - namely that He IS Truth. That He IS Love. Then there are those in the church who accept that Jesus is who He says He is - they believe in Him as God and accept Him as Saviour - but haven't fully made Him Lord, as evidenced by the fact that they agree with the first group about this being impractical in the modern age and so discard Jesus' very directions to them in how to live. But if we follow Jesus as Saviour AND Lord then we will put into practice His words, whether they make sense to us or not, whether they are easy to follow or not, whether we like them or not, trusting that He knows better than us, and that He will work in us along the way to make us into a people through whom the world will see His glory. Are you one of those who is listening when Jesus talks? Will you be countercultural and love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you and pray for those who mistreat you?
Biblical Christianity is set apart from other belief systems by this. You don't earn salvation. You can't earn salvation. You don't have to do a bunch of stuff. You can't do enough to be worthy. You just believe in what Jesus has done for you because of God's great love for you. You just call on his name publicly and trust Him. That's it. Then, as a result (of what God has done for you, not anything you do for Him) you grow closer to Him over time as His Spirit helps you change from the inside out as you seek more and more of Him each day. What a loving God we have, who has done all necessary so that we can be close to Him!
Yesterday we were in the other care home and were once again able to share the gospel presentation - please pray that each of these precious people would know God with them at this stage of their life and would continue to grow in their relationship with Him
Yesterday we shared a gospel presentation and prayed with the residents in one of the care homes. We sang some choruses and one of the residents came and shared a mini-message of his own for all of us too. It's encouraging to have time with these older folk and they tell us how encouraged they are by the visits too. Thank you to all of you who partner to make this ministry possible ❤️