There is a fundamental test of our Christianity. The question is one: Are we alive in Christ? The big question isn't whether we were baptized or do we do worship right. Are those who follow him truly living? His people are to have come to Life.
There are those who live with both energy bearing Holy Spirit fruit. Others are committed to going to church; but their attitudes are negative, their prayer life is non-existent, and their faith is dead. How can one study the life of Christ and succumb to the numbing form of godliness with no power as Paul warned? How can this happen?
It may be that a herd mentality (whatever my congregation thinks is what we all think) has developed which expresses that what the group believes is what I believe. Personal Bible study has gone by the wayside and these Christians have actually become what they disdained about the Catholic church; they have yielded to allowing someone in their group to tell them what the group believes. Too, defensive proving has overridden learning. Study continues with the goal of proving what one already believes rather than searching for what has not yet been deduced from Scriptures.
I encourage all to keep reading the Word. It will verify some of the things we have thought to be true and it will also reveal matters we have yet to consider. Above all, we must be His people on earth who are not grumpy, but kind; not stand-offish, but aggressive; and not cold to others, but very loving.
He came that we might have life and have it abundantly. May we abundantly be brought to life!
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But how do you focus so as to live in the Spirit's power? I am still trying to figure this out.
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