At the church I attend (and am also a member) we have been attempting to find God's mind on what our church, also known as the body of Christ that meets at 17th and Main in a certain community, needs do to bring God glory. I have seen a couple of things over the last week.
One is that we need to look at if those outside this group would "Know we are Christians by our love!" Both for those within and outside the group. At times I am sorry to say that our love within is lacking and therefore OUR love without is not into good of shape either. As I think about and pray about how we love those outside the group I have to say that we must not be doing a great job in that our rate of converts is not at all that good. I we believe that the world is going to hell as we say we do and we chose a path that would keep us from going to hell; why would we not want to keep every one from going? I am as bad as any other within the group about not having the passion to share (read the guts to share) Jesus with a dyeing world. This leads to the second thing I have seen over the last week.
The second is that of Jesus' Marching Order to the Church; GO! Making converts of everybody! Why? Because Jesus said; "All power has been given me in heaven and on earth. This gives the people of God the energy, and ability as well as it should given us the desire to do what we are asked to do. Jesus told his church to make converts; baptize those converts and then teach them to MAKE CONVERTS! Jesus even goes on to say that He is with us to the end. What are we waiting for? We have the engraved invitation! Why aren't we as a large group doing what Jesus (and God) has called us to do? The reason may be we are scared? We do not know how to make converts? We may just simply not care!
So; if you have read this far into my non politically correct statements here and you claim to be a follower of Jesus the Messiah; I have one question: "What are you going to do about these orders?
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