Join The Family

Most of my readers are Christians, most of them I fear are trapped within the theology of the godless American or Western Culture.  Sure lip service is given to God on Sunday mornings, but for the rest of the week, well not so much ...

Even if you think  you are a Christian you can still evaluate if you really are one or not.  Just look back a few posts to those three discussions.  I will assume  you have either restarted your life or  your Christian life and are now to think about what is next ...

Family is what is next.  You are automatically a part of a family, an exclusive family, one you have been called into - just by the mere condition of your decision to accept Jesus' sacrifice as your payment before God.  And Jesus called you to follow 2,000 years ago and that call remain true through to this day, "Join the family, be family, you are family".

Read Mark 1:16-20

Being Family Is About Community.
Family, real family, is not about you or about me, it is about US, as a community, as a fellowship, the collective following Jesus.

Unfortunately all we have as a structure is the anemic and terminally ill Church structure.  Yeah, it has to heal but not without its turning back to God and you continued efforts to call it to account for its blatant un-Godliness.

Two thousands years ago people flocked to the Church, the real Church, because it offered something the world did not have.  They left their professions, families, friends, lives - all in an effort answer Jesus' call that the Kingdom of God was at hand!

It Takes All Kinds.
Variety was the keyword for the new Church!  The people came from different occupations, backgrounds, ethnic groups.
Some were eloquent, some quiet, some wrote, not all were martyred - but almost all were for what they testified to.

Its A Journey
Do not give up.  God is in the process of constantly developing, correcting and teaching each and everyone of us!   And that will continue until the day He decides it is time for us to join Him ...

You Are All In!
Being part of the family is an all or nothing proposition!  You are completely committed to the family or, well, you are not actually a part of the family!

That is darn hard when what we have to work with is a corrupt and sick version of what Jesus founded.

So, it is with prayer we go forward in establishing local Christian families, to represent Jesus on this Earth.