Just like Jesus, we have each been SENT into the world to continue His work. God works through the ‘agency’ of men and women who say “Yes, Lord. Here I am. Amen”.
Just like Jesus, we have each been SENT into the world to continue His work. God works through the ‘agency’ of men and women who say “Yes, Lord. Here I am. Amen”.
If Jesus prays for our visible unity to be a significant apologetic to the watching world as well as the place where God bestows His blessing (Ps.133) then isn’t it about time we stand together for the gospel more often?!
We are SENT into the world and yet we are not to love the world or be conformed to it. How do we do separation AND incarnation?
Jesus is hard in a pluralistic society! What does He mean to claim that He is the light of the world? What does it mean for HIm to be the ‘light of life’?
Jesus is the vine. Every branch that abides in Him will bear much fruit. That is His will for our lives: to go and bear much fruit. He does that in us. He will do that in…
The gift Jesus wants to give us is to incorporate us into His own relationship with the Heavenly Father.
Jesus intentionally calls us away from the “pools” we go to for healing and to Himself.
One of the simplest examples of Faith comes from this man in Jn. 4 who begs Jesus to heal his son. Jesus tells him, “Go. Your son will live” and then “The man took Jesus at his word and departed.” Wow! Boom! Such amazing faith!
Jesus, living SENT, goes out of His way to to bring living water to the woman at the well in Samaria.
Although he is initially perplexed about Jesus, and how to be born again, Nicodemus by the time of Jesus crucifixion and death, has become a believer.