“None are so near to Jesus Christ as those who hear the word of God and do it. The union between him and them will live when all other ties are sundered, and will grow more intimate and delightful for ever.”
"It displeases God to see his people dividing themselves up in little subgroups, with each one thinking they’re better than the other, for whatever reason. We know better. But do we always act better? It’s human nature to divide ourselves up into little groups called “us and them.” If it’s not race then it’s language or education or economic status or life-style or even how long you’ve lived in the community. But this is not what God wants from us. His eternal purpose for the church is to show both the world we can see and the world we cannot that the blood of Jesus Christ is the strongest binding force in the universe. It is our sharing in the blood of Christ that ensures us that nothing can separate us from the love of God, and it is the blood of Christ that bonds us into one family - crazy aunt in the attic and all. We are all related by blood. Divisions among us wound Jesus Christ himself, and shame God before his enemies." Alison Buckllin
TEXT: LUKE 8:19-21
SONGS:
GOOD GRACE, HILLSONG
I SPEAK JESUS, KINGS PORCH
AS FOR ME AND MY HOUSE, AUSTIN & LYNDSEY ADAMEC