My brothers and my sisters we meditate a little
about it? What do you think? I think it's a good idea. We've been talking all
the time about a student Church and that this work is vital to the Church of
Christ. We've been talking about cells, studied about it all the time,
participated in meetings and congresses of Discipleship, etc. But the questions
they don't want to shut up are: we're really engaged in this work? How many
lives each of us really won this year? We are winning souls for Christ? We're
making a difference? We're making disciples and disciples? The work in actually
picked up in all our churches? Because when we talk about that there's always
someone with critical spirit and with more doubts than certainties. This is not
an order of Jesus? So what's the problem? We have to do or we're out of a
principle established by Christ. Dear I have noticed throughout this process
that the problem is on the form. We see many churches resisting simply by the
way. Know that it is necessary to make disciples and disciples, but have an
early form that has already been surpassed, but don't have the guts to open her
hand to adopt a new way of earning lives for Christ. The result is there. How
many ancient churches without new people without young people coming, without
adults committed to the Kingdom of God!
You need to realize that even though well meaning
the way we have to evangelize doesn't work with more efficiency. The world has
changed. The concepts have changed. The Gospel is the same, but you need to
find new ways to be announced. Follow the Churches. Step safely say that the
churches where Discipleship is developing with great efficiency are those
churches that were already free of certain vices. Or are free churches that are
either new churches that never had. In these Churches discipleship grows and
lives are achieved by the grace of God. We are in the era of technology and
there are people who take pride in not knowing anything about it. But do not
fall on technology and neither do the old-fashioned way. Because it often is
not even accepted or is very limited in a world that is so fast. Of course we
can't swallow all that technology offers. But God gave us intelligence and
wisdom we to filter and agree what is good. While some groups grow using other
media have allergy to media and are stopped in time. Still thinking in
manuscripts, typewriters and such. But the worst is not that the outdated
concepts that no detach from the minds of the people. Why become new averse and
prejudicially not seek new information and spend the whole time just doing
reviews. But don't grow. Don't seek new lives to the Church of Christ. We are
very late in the Church of the gifts and ministries because of it.
Unfortunately if we walk with the slowness and lack of will that we are seeing
in most of our communities, in 20 years we will be regretting the late Church
of small groups to grow in membership and save lives.
Jesus commanded us to go and preach. But he also
has enabled us to do so. Sent to preach, casting out demons, healing the sick,
etc. Yet we are still so shy. We're afraid of launching the work of the Lord.
Brothers and sisters in the Lord. He honours us. It's his work as it is also
the order to go to preach the Gospel to every creature. Those who believe and
are baptized will be saved. Who does not believe will be condemned. But we have
to preach.
I said after that things have changed. He also said
that the Gospel has not changed. I mean now that neither the human being
changed. Your needs are the same. What has changed and changed a lot was the
way to make people feel attracted to accept Jesus. One of those ways is the
work in small groups home Discipleship.
Open hand of the old and accept the new without
fear. Participate in this new way of spreading the Gospel of Christ. Small
groups in homes of the families of the Church. What has happened in traditional
Churches and resistant? Pastors speak, speak and appeal, appeal and nobody
opens his home to it. No one takes the initiative to go into business and when
they do they do so coldly. Are there. Waiting for a miracle to happen. But the
miracle will be the saving of lives after hearing the word of God. The Bible
says: faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of God. For that it is urgent
to rediscover new methods and new ways of making disciples and disciples. Today
we have this, which are small groups. Tomorrow will be another. God is
creative, and we also need to be who is not creative loses space in dynamic of
history.
Let's not think about what
worked well, what didn't work anymore and do the same thing differently and
more attractive now. Keep the order of Jesus and proclaim the Gospel. I would
like to conclude by asking: how many reviews you did to the Church in 2015? And
have already begun 2016 making them again? How many suggestions you have given
to the Church to improve and grow? Have or have not? But how many people you
have won for Jesus? What have you done for the growth of the Church? What were
your parcels of contributions to the development of the work of God entrusted
to us in this place?
Sisters and dears get out of comfort zone embrace
the Lord's work. Criticise less, gave less suggestions and have more concrete
actions. Amen.
Rev. Jesué Francisco da Silva
Nenhum comentário:
Postar um comentário