My brothers and my sisters today I would like to
reflect with you on the Church of Christ again. I have used this space to talk
about the Church. Today I'd like to think with you about the kind of knowledge
that we have of the Church. What we know about the Church? Do we really know
the mission and who is the Church? I think we all know in theory. But in fact,
at the bottom even we don't always know what it does and who is the Church of
Christ. But what would this humble Shepherd to talk like that? Without doubt
our behavior, our way of dealing with the Church of Christ. Unfortunately not
always stop to think about it or to evaluate us even to find out if we really
know what it does and who is the Church that we meet. Let's think a bit without
constrangermos and honestly about what we do in the Church and we will realize
that we don't know actually. We don't know his Ministry and who governs the
Church. We said yes. But in fact don't. Let's see: we usually have criticism
against the Church of Christ. If we were to meet everyone and all within their
claims would have to be a lot of Churches including the Church. Would be more
or less like this, we would have a main church and among this church would have
other according to what you think and what they want the groups in their
claims. Usually there are many discussions in churches about it about it, about
this pastor, about that preacher. We take people to have sufferings within our
communities. The whole time we're seeing and highlighting the problems and we don't
have eyes for we see qualities of the people in the Kingdom of God. The very
interesting in these discussions is that we see much of what is in our
self-interest and inside our optics. How many things do not match so we were
criticizing and always positioning against. Loved this is dangerous because
we're not the ones who have power and authority over the Church of Christ, but
is the Church of Christ who has power and authority over us. Always good to
remember that the Church of Jesus received authority to forgive and retain
sins. The Church of Jesus has authority to bind and unbind from the heavens. On
the other hand we need to understand that when we talk of Christ Church we are
speaking of Christ himself, since He is confused with his Church. Look in the
book of acts chapter nine verses one through nine with emphasis on reflection
to the verse five. Jesus responds to then Saul: I am Jesus whom you are
persecuting. Now, Saul (after Paul) was persecuting the Church. For Jesus
chasing the Church means to continue it. He mingles with his Church. Why work
with a church is the same as working with Jesus. Criticizing a church can be a
critique of Jesus himself.
But we're here criticizing all the time. Call again
the attention to a chronic problem that we have in our churches. Criticize our
pastors. In Ephesians Chapter 4 verses seven to sixteen. Here Paul shows us
that Pastorate is a called a God to equip and improve the church so that she
(the Church) to grow up healthy. And this pastoral ministry is the Ministry of
master. What's more, it was God who was called and his ministers as well as
other ministries in the Church.
Brothers and sisters the Church of Christ is Christ
himself in this world. Your job is to build the Kingdom of God in the hearts of
the people.
We know that human beings make mistakes. But when
mistakes are of people criticize with love to these people and not to the
Church. When the errors are of the shepherds love to criticize these pastors
without generalizing and without taking advantage of the opportunity to find
that this is no good to us more, we need another pastor. Look at that danger.
And if this is not the will of God? When we criticize a member of the Church or
even a pastor we are putting us in a position to be criticized for them too?
Sometimes not criticize because they know who the Church of Jesus is and what
is it mission in this world.
Beloved, the Kingdom of God cannot be built on the
basis of judgment and of the fingers at the ready (singled out for others). The
Kingdom of God is built with love, tolerance, acceptance, acceptance, seeks to
understand a lot more than being understood, meekness and Always considering
others above ourselves. The Church needs to be a fraternal community. The
umpire between us according to the Bible is the peace of Christ. Amen.
Rev.
Jesué Francisco da Silva.
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