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With Christ the light, nothing is impossible
We know that “discipleship in Christ is salvation, and hope, and the fullness of life.” We know, for sure, that the truth is that “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.”
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The mission of the 12 is ours, should you choose to accept it
The mission has been given to us, and there is no limit to the power, grace, spirit, energy, and truth that abounds for us.
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We are called to love one another — with all of our imperfections
We are called to go beyond familiarity (which we have a lot of) and “land on love.”
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What could possibly be better than to be filled with God’s eternal love?
He has come to save us, to heal us, to divinely humanize us, to right the wrong of the “garden scene,” and to “stamp us” with the seal of love who is God.
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Is Jesus too much for us? Do we want him to stay? Do we welcome him in?
Does he take our unclean and sinful stuff and make us new, whole, well, loving, and living members of his kingdom and his life?
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Does Jesus’ teachings, word, example amaze us?
And even if they do, is there more? Do we feel compelled to follow him? Is his word truth like no other truth?
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Jesus call us to faith, just as he once called his disciples
And even in the midst of our “lack of faith” and our “fear” — and even “terror.” He gently, probing, lovingly, insistently — and in a way that beckons us to open up and “believe” — asks us: “Why are you terrified? Do you not yet have faith?”
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For the gift to grow, it must be given and received
The gift is given and received and then brings blessing upon blessing.
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Our faith is not to be hidden — he is the light
So let us take the light we have received (as if an inner lamp) and put it on a lamp stand to “give light to all.”
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