Saturday, 17 January 2015

The church we ought to be

Acts 2:47 NIV
praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

Church = Ekklesia - called one of God

Exodus - God called them out to the land of promised.

Today context. What God call us out from ? From greed. from ignorance. From old life.

Independent. Called out from Old life no longer independent.

Dependent  on God.
1.  we are limited

Interdependent with each have other within the God's family. Spiritual  family.

Materials poverty
Relation poverty

Sins
Separation from God.
Physical and spiritual death.

Separation from self
The wound and scare. People carry within

Separation from  other

Colossians 1:20 NIV
and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

John 13:34-35 NIV

“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.  By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

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