10/24- Friday- Matthew 28:18-20 18Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19Therefore go and make disciples of all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20and teaching them to obey everything I have
commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
Bonhoeffer: “We speak to one another on the basis of the help we both need. We admonish one another to go the way that Christ bids us to go. We warn one another against disobedience that is our common destruction. We are gentle and we are severe with one another, for we know both God’s kindness and God’s severity…Who wants to be accountable for having been silent when he should have spoken?”
Thoughts: The fellowship does not exist to serve itself
or its own comforts. When a Christian
fellowship is self-serving, then it is surely dying. But when the fellowship seeks to serve the
Lord and reach out to others with the love
and fellowship of God, then it starts bearing fruit- in the lives of the
fellowship and in the lives of others outside the fellowship. Our task is to reach out to others. But just to invite others into the fellowship
is not enough. We are to invite them to
follow the teachings of Jesus- which are found in the scriptures.
Prayer: Jesus, give me grace to reach out in your name
with your love as a witness for you.
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