Community, in many ways the heart of life. We will belong to many communities – but knowing our Christian life is a distinctive one is important. Psalm 133: 1 (NRSV) says “How wonderful and pleasant it is when kindred live together in harmony"
This is speaking about the family of God – Christians are part of this, and we don’t choose who are brothers and sisters are in church!
1 Peter 4: 10 - Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.
“Grace, like water flows to the lowest part.” – Philip Yancey
My second blog of this series feels a little like a ‘part 2’ to my first blog on love – you could describe compassion as ‘love in action.’ For some, your thoughts may turn to the kind of compassion witnessed in the life of Mother Teresa, surely the epitome of compassion. For others, it may be something more personal, remembering compassion shown to you at your moment of need, or a time you were moved by compassion to help someone else.
Everyone has a unique understanding of faith, or lack of it, but first we need to be specific about what we have faith in.
We should distinguish Faith in God versus objects or anything else – the Christian faith is personal and is in response to a ‘Faithfull’ God. For Christians, faith is active and is about someone we know we can rely on – Jesus Christ.
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