The common ground in all these denominations is Jesus. Jesus Christ. The Messiah. God incarnate as man. The word of God that became flesh. God revealed to man as man.
As I was looking at the title of my last blog, "Cultivating Positive Community," I was reminded of the community Jesus taught about; which happens to be the subject he taught on the most. He referred to it as the Kingdom of God.
I often dream about the transformation that would take place in our community if many of the church attenders would individually take Jesus seriously. The man who unites us all in our different denominations (Christ), is degraded to a joke or even a "swear word". The man who revealed the way of God, the truth of God, and the life of God has become nothing more than a picture or name or religious symbol in our churches. What would happen if we all committed our lives to following the person we say we believe in?
Cultivating Positive Community? Living within the Kingdom of God? It starts with embracing this Jesus as a teacher as well as a savior. If people truly accepted Christ and received the Spirit of God he promised, what a beautiful community we would live in!
People would be overflowing with:
love like never before
joy like never before
peace like never before
patience like never before
kindness like never before
goodness like never before
faithfulness like never before
gentleness like never before
self-control like never before
Can you imagine if this community embraced God in the deepest parts of their lives?
It's about embracing the purpose and intent that God originally created us to live for.
Talk about cultivating positive community…
a community focused on living for the Lord
a land sold out to accepting Jesus.
…a kingdom of God!
What would happen if we took Jesus seriously?!?!
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