Liberating you from bad ideas about God
Many Christians say that if you are truly a Christian, you will have the good works to prove it. I argued in last week’s post that this is not true.
Let me provide three more reasons that good works do not prove that we are a Christian (and that the lack of good works do not prove that we are NOT a Christian).
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Since the church is the representative of Jesus on earth, Jesus is doing whatever the church does. So even though Jesus himself did not actually do what this article states, it is still shocking to think about how this money was spent.
Here are some stories from Sam Riviera about homeless people he has met on the street. In them, he sees Jesus. Have you seen him there? He’s not hard to find if you know how to look.
Some believe that bigger churches are able to accomplish bigger ministry opportunities? But are they? If so, does this mean that big churches are better? If you are not loving your neighbors right now, you cannot write a big check and call it “ministry.”
Christian service actually means loving people and being loved. Christian ministry is not something we do to people, but with people. True Christian ministry begins with developing relationships with others, and more often than not, we find that we are the ones ministered to, rather than the ones doing the ministry.
Here are 14 practical suggestions to love others like Jesus. Many ministries attempt to GO BIG, but if we want to simply love others, then we can love others simply.
Being the church that Jesus wants begins with imagining the church in new ways. Imagine new ways of being the church, living within the Kingdom of God, loving others, serving the needy, and revealing Jesus Christ to others.
We Christians are often afraid of being contaminated and defeated by the darkness, but if we are with Jesus, we need not fear anything in the dark. So let us go forth with the light and love of Jesus to rescue those who sit in darkness.
The Refuge in Denver is a home for spiritual orphans, a place to gather hope. I visited recently, and here is some of how they function and what they do. I heard some people talk about a service opportunity in a low-income apartment complex, and a few other things, but ultimately, their ministry seems to be loving each other.
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