From the Officer’s/Pastor’s desk (Sunday, August 25, 2013) In Acts 2:42 “They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship…” The Greek word fellowship means to “share something in common.” The rest of the passage fleshes out this concept as we learn that they were “all together” (verse 44), they met together in the temple courts (verse 46), and they ate together (verse 46). We’re not here on our own we’ve been created to be in community with others. Other people have touched our lives -- parents, neighbors, friends and teachers (Sunday School). Some touched you for the better, and others may have made you cry. You and I were created for community. You were made to have intimate relationships, to serve, to share, to build into the lives of the people around you, to have people to whom you can entrust the secrets of your heart and to laugh, praise, pray and cry with.. Jesus prayed, in John 17:22-23, that we might be one, even as He and the Father are one: “I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in Me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.” This week we look at the unity as it existed at the very beginning of the church. I believe this sense of community can be recaptured today when we allow Christ to be Lord, and surrender to the leading of the Holy Spirit in our personal lives. I believe that deep down within us, we all long to be close, to be part of the same family, to be in tune -- and in touch with one another. Major Paul
Posted on: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 00:27:49 +0000
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