LISTEN TO THE CHURCH
In our today’s environment [listening to the church] is not always popular advice. The way to Jesus through church can often be viewed as an obstacle. And separating Jesus from the church is concerning. “The Church” is the body of the Lord. Without Jesus there would be no church. And so, without the church we cannot stay United with Jesus. Church is where we hear the gospel and in fellowship with other believers we study together, uplift one another and pray in unison to our Lord. The Church has a liturgical life for us. We celebrate Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, Ascension and Pentecost. These, our church seasons teach us to know Jesus better, and help unite us as his people in the divine life offered in Church.
ROMANS 12:3-5
ONE BODY
By the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of yourselves more highly than you ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and not all the members have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually we are members one of another.
My God of all power and might, you have endowed me with my own human free will, I ask that you help me to rid myself of a life that leaves no room for You and your mighty works. Help me not to worship the things that I might hang on to tightly: money, family, fame, other people and the like. Symbolically let me roll away the rock from my tomb, and guide me to find your new world of possibilities in your joyful resurrection. I seek the fullness of your Love.
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