DAY 620 - Help Your Church The First-Rate Team (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

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                               Today's Reading: Galatians 6:1-5

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Bible Study

     Paul gives a wonderful picture of what every church should look like. He points out that the problem of the churches in Galatia is their lacking of unity and team work.  

Bishop N.T. Wright says ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._T._Wright ) :
      The crisis in Galatia is that people saw themselves as one particular 'type' of Christian, and looked down on other types…
      Instead of the community Paul had established, where all were equal at the foot of the cross, all equally 'in Christ', all equally members of Abraham's family (3.26-29), the work of the 'agitators' had left a legacy of division based on non-theological factors.
     It is desperately easy for this kind of attitude to creep in to any church…
     The church is meant to work like a fist-rate team. 
    

N.T. Wright. Paul for Everyone:Galatians and Thessalonians. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004, p.72-74.

      So, do you have the same problem in your church? 

      
Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe":  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU

Spiritual Journal

    The title I heard from Jesus today is: Help your church the first-rate team

    What I got from Jesus today is a true picture to all churches since the time of the Early Church. Not a single church in the history of Christianity can be free of this virus - division. It is just a big lesson and call for us as leaders of how to lead our church back to the Jesus' path. How can we help our church to become the first-rate team? Well, if you can answer the two questions below then there might be a chance. 

     Does the work of the 'agitators' stir up division in your church just like in Galatia? 
     How can you help your church to get back to the right shape and to be the first-rate team?

Daddy,

Lead us to crucify our sinful nature first so that we can help our church to be the first-rate team. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

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