It is here in the book, where Rick introduces the second portion of his teaching and calls it: Purpose #2: You were Formed for God’s Family. And uses the verse,“I am the vine, you are the branches”, from John 15:5 for the foundation of this section. He begins Chapter 15: Formed for God’s Family, by introducing the reader to Hebrews 2:10a which says “God is the One who made all things, and all things are for His glory. He wanted to have many children share His glory.” In the beginning when God created Adam and Eve God formed a plan for His people to glorify Him. The crazy thing is that we all were formed by God but we aren’t all born as God’s children. We have to be born again as a child, adult or old person accepting God into our hearts because
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What matters most is love. It includes relationship, time, compassion and unselfishness. Living without love creates a life that is meaningless. Without love your life isn’t fulfilled. What keeps us from loving others? Busyness is the enemy of relationships. Being overscheduled with appointments, work or cooped up in your own home keeps us from caring for others. When people ask genuinely how you are doing and sit down to talk about your life, that defines love. People don’t have to give you their own limited time. It’s an option to be selfless. My daily objective is to have a solid conversation with at least one person whether I know them or not. God calls us to reach out to one another just as He does to us …show more content…
The New Testament tells us more about this topic than it does about heaven or hell. Unity is at the center of what we are supposed to focus on as we grow closer and more like Christ. In fact, Christ, at the end of his life prayed earnestly for our unity. As a Christian we must do everything we can to protect and grow the unity of our church. We are to focus on our similarities. There are many difference we have as individuals, however our Christian similarities are what binds us. We are not to be mirror images of each other, but images of Christ. We must be realistic in expectations of each other. People will let us down; however we are to be patient with each other. The church is made up of sinners. We need to work on reconciliation, there is no perfect church. Life is to be done together with other believers, and has a requirement to treat each other as family. We must love one another more than ourselves. We must encourage one another and avoid criticising, comparing and judging others. When we don’t act in this way, we judge God and how He has made and is working in another person. The consequences are separating self from God, showing our pride and insecurity, bringing God 's judgement on self and injuring the body of Christ. When we judge others we are walking into the trap Satan built for us in his effort to divide the church. We
What matters most is love. It includes relationship, time, compassion and unselfishness. Living without love creates a life that is meaningless. Without love your life isn’t fulfilled. What keeps us from loving others? Busyness is the enemy of relationships. Being overscheduled with appointments, work or cooped up in your own home keeps us from caring for others. When people ask genuinely how you are doing and sit down to talk about your life, that defines love. People don’t have to give you their own limited time. It’s an option to be selfless. My daily objective is to have a solid conversation with at least one person whether I know them or not. God calls us to reach out to one another just as He does to us …show more content…
The New Testament tells us more about this topic than it does about heaven or hell. Unity is at the center of what we are supposed to focus on as we grow closer and more like Christ. In fact, Christ, at the end of his life prayed earnestly for our unity. As a Christian we must do everything we can to protect and grow the unity of our church. We are to focus on our similarities. There are many difference we have as individuals, however our Christian similarities are what binds us. We are not to be mirror images of each other, but images of Christ. We must be realistic in expectations of each other. People will let us down; however we are to be patient with each other. The church is made up of sinners. We need to work on reconciliation, there is no perfect church. Life is to be done together with other believers, and has a requirement to treat each other as family. We must love one another more than ourselves. We must encourage one another and avoid criticising, comparing and judging others. When we don’t act in this way, we judge God and how He has made and is working in another person. The consequences are separating self from God, showing our pride and insecurity, bringing God 's judgement on self and injuring the body of Christ. When we judge others we are walking into the trap Satan built for us in his effort to divide the church. We