Iron Sharpening Iron
In Matthew 28:18-20 the Lord Jesus Christ says to His
disciples,
“All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on
earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son
and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things
that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you
always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.”
The disciple is a student. As Christians all of us have
much to learn and much to become for the Lord Jesus
Christ. Each of us have unique God given gifts, talents,
interests, experiences and resources that can be used to
equip and enable one another to fulfill our mission as the
Christian Church. To ‘make disciples’ requires a lifelong
commitment to worshiping together, praying together,
learning together, growing together and serving together.
Faith Has Works
The Apostle Paul writes in Romans 12:4-6
“For as we have many members in one body, but all the
members do not have the same
function, so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and
individually members of one another. Having then gifts
differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us
use them…”
All of us as Christians have been given a ‘gift’ from God
that enables us to serve God by serving with one another
in the various works of Christian ministry. By God’s design
all of us have an important part to play in the over all
formation and function of the Christian Church. No God
given gift and contribution it makes to the Church family
and its mission work to the world is unimportant. Every gift
matters and every act of faithful service matters. We are
not a body of superiors; we are a body of faithful servants.