quinta-feira, 13 de fevereiro de 2014

PASTORAL WORD – WHY WE ARE HERE IN THIS WORLD AS CHURCH? (Mt. 28:18-20)


My brothers and my sisters I’m aware that all of us know at least the basic about the reason of being of Christ's Church in this world. But I also know that not always we acted as if we were that very clear aware in our minds. And why do tell that? I speak because I see that our behavior evidences that. Will we think about the case? Because we come or is it going to the Church? Or better, because we participated in a Church? Which is our larger objective in that? Are we of the Church why? What are making as Church of Christ? Usually we come or it is going to the Church and of it participates to feel well. That is the main reason of our critics and murmuring. The Church has to correspond to our expectations and when that doesn't happen were become irritated and we murmured the whole time. The pastor of the Church has to speak in agreement with what waited. We prayed for God to use his mouth, but we want to hear what we liked and God not always speaks that we liked, but the one that we needed hear. When the pastor speaks inside about our expectations spoke that God used him mightily. But when no... We Thought it was him (the pastor who spoke) and wanted to reach that  brother  or that sister. If we feel the word spoke to us... There then murmured against. We were infuriated and in the first opportunity we attacked our Pastor and we suggested his transfer. He doesn't serve more. And the worst is that we arranged a series of arguments for us to justify our posture or position. Friend and dear, all this is because our vision about the Church of Christ is cloudy, hazy. We don't have clarity on our mission while Church. We got lost easily among the that we want and  that the Church should be and to do.  Wanted and friend the Church is the authentic representative of Kingdom of God in this world and to work or to be linked Church means to be working and linked in Kingdom of God. Our mission is to do disciples and to win souls, lives for Kingdom of God. Theologically called that to build Kingdom of God. Friend and wanted when we thought like this and we see the Church for that angle the things change and mainly our behavior inside of Christ's Church. We started to understand that those and those that are preaching or making other work in the Church are to service of Kingdom of God and, therefore we should not criticize them. Our vision will be returned always for the mission and we understood everything of the point of view of the mission. Personal, anything to please us. Of course to feel well it is part of the process. But that is not the objective to you and I be in the Church. A small group that understands still exists what means to be Church and to be working in the same. That group is not at the alone Church to feel well. As I said that does part of the process, because who is determined in the work of God will feel very well where it is.  It will always be in a happy communion with all the Disciples' maker. Who has clarity of the mission of the Church doesn't lose time fighting for things and especially personal things. For that person Kingdom of God is much larger than everything and it is in him and with him that all of us are involved as Church of Christ. Making disciples and in the roads of the mission. Friend and wanted leave our "cubicle", we left our mistaken vision and a lot of times archaic and let’s insist in the mission of winning souls, lives for Jesus. Let’s see the biblical text above that says: "Make disciples of all of the nations "... Amen. 

Rev. Jesué Francisco da Silva.

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