How have you made intentional steps toward understanding or attuning to your family relationships this week? Maybe it was sitting around the table, taking a walk or making a phone call. Come prepared to talk about this on Sunday as we come to the table of the Family of God. You can also email me with your story.
I love the image of jumping in the well with that person in your life that needs to be understood. “The purposes of a man’s heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out.” Proverbs 20:5 (NIV84) This jumping in the well with one another as the Family of God is the process that brings unity and understanding to the generations around the table. “I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. 2 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. 3 Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to one hope when you were called— 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.” Eph. 4:1-6 (NIV84)
Prime the Pump
Read Acts 2:37-47 in preparation for Sunday. We will be talking about the fullness of salvation and the Family of God. How did you come to the decision to follow Jesus? Remembering back to that time in your life, what was significant about that decision?
This blog is to help the people at Wabash Friends Church connect the dots in the life between Sundays. The posts will help you remember where we have been and get a glimpse of where we are headed. Our hope is that you will take the next steps in your pursuit of following Jesus Christ.
Love the Ephesians 4 scripture. As Sue and I reunite with family in the mountains west of Colorado Springs, I am reminded that all that ties us together as a family is so much more than what would pull us apart if Jesus is the glue.
ReplyDeleteYet we hold these treasures in jars of clay to reveal that this all surpassing power is from God and not from us. Our FOO and FOG speak into our lives and reveal the unfailing love of our creator/redeemer to save us from ourselves.