Top 13 Bible Verses-Who God Wants in His Church …
There once was a church…
(This is a true story…)
That started with no members at all…
And grew and grew…
Until over 100 people attended services every Sunday.
“That’s enough!” said the 100 members.
“It’s comforting to know everyone who sits next to us on Sunday.”
There once was a church…
(This is a true story…)
That got an email from someone who was not a member…
who wasn’t even sure she believed in God.
Maybe the church’s Bible study would help her decide.
Could she attend even though she might miss a couple of sessions when she didn’t have child care?
“Our church believes in community,” said the study leader.
“How can you be part of our community if you’re not here every session?”
Our church…
Our comfort…
Our community…
But the Church is God’s…
Who would God comfort?
Who would God include in His community?
Matthew 11:28-30
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
Romans 10:13
For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Isaiah 55:1-13
“Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food. Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David. Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples. Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know, and a nation that did not know you shall run to you, because of the Lord your God, and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you. …
Revelation 22:17
The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.
John 1:12
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
John 3:16
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
Luke 19:10
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
Romans 5:8
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
1 Timothy 1:15
The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.
Matthew 19:14
But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”
1 John 4:14
And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
1 John 2:2
He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
Galations 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Top 13 Bible Verses-Who God Wants in His Church …
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Note: The two stories in this post are specific, real life events…one very recent, and one from a few years ago. I tell these stories because they remind me how easy it is to look at others through the lens of my own expectations for a Christ follower, rather than through God’s eyes of love.
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Love truth, not any denomination that prefers 10’s 20’s 100’s
It is needed to have money, yet when it takes over in the lead, watch out a slippery slope one might be on then.
The true Church, actually Ecclesia is?
Heaven, not here on earth as of yet, but in those that are in belief and see by Father revealing this to these.
Rev 3:8 the door is open. you are called in belief to enter into his rest for thee, there, there and all that will turn in belief to Father got new life to be given them in risen Son for them
True Church I see in Hebrews 8
Thanks Father loves us all so deep, it is not easy to see, this mercy upon us that he placed in free choice to choose, hoping not one will be like warm anymore
As one might see, Stephan got stoned to death in Acts for saying God does not live in buildings (Church, which literally means building)
As they the religious ones picked up stones to stone Stephan as Saul who became Paul after this, consented to stoning Stephan to death.
I see Saul watching Stephan, go to death willingly, not fighting back to live here on earth. Sating he was seeing in Joy, Father and Son for him.
Now put yourself in Saul’s place, as if you are Saul, and see what Stephan did willingly. How do I, you and all with this view see now?
Perplexed, who goes to death willingly? Now you are on that road to Damascus. So now seeing truth, vicariously seeing in watching Stephan go to death willingly, he saw Jesus doing this through Stephan.
So he was, is an Apostle born out of due time as said in Galatians
Not worthy, and stood in not being deserving, yet was made righteous by God alone, even as King David when he repented to God in front of Nathaniel.
Now that is what true love does to each one in belief to see, from the view given me, seeing Romans 2:1-4
Not forgetting what I have done and repented of for Father in risen Son to take over this ill repute body of mine.
So seeing this love so wide deep and high, I reckon me dead, being dead, I am dead to sin, So are you and you nd you too.
In fact, God now sees us all as dead to sin, because of Son’s sacrifice, for all. Does that mean we are saved by this reconciling death for all as forgiven forever in him?
No!, it means we are forgiven 100% by Father through Son’s one time death, reconciled. 2 Cor 5:16-20
So what next? Turn to belief, first and foremost in thanksgiving and praise, you are now 100% forgiven whether sin again or not, Psalms 103:12 as David reported seeing this all sin taken away, so he also stated this in Psalms 100:4
Christ the fulfillment of what needed to be done, under Law, Perfect in Love to us all. By that one sacrifice, has made us as if n=never sinned not even once.
So we could get new life given us free of charge ever. This is done in the risen Son, after the death reconciled us to get it.
This love is deep, wide and high, as only Father reveals it to his. So finalize it you are forgiven and remain as forgiven from Father of Risen Son for you to walk new in. Not of world works we all are taught to do or else attitude. For no flesh can please Father but one, That be Son, and he did what needed to be done for us all to turn to Father in belief to see this love given us to walk new in.
Taking away the sin consciousness placed in us by the world trying to do right, Being aware of sin, it takes hold, as we go out and about trying to do as told by this world using the Bible to justify this.
When in truth, having a conscience of sin, traps one in sin. As Father to reveal this, as he does you will go Woe, is me as in Isaiah did in Isaiah 6:1-6