Sept 24, 2024 … TOGETHER - One Body

Sept 24, 2024 … TOGETHER - One Body

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   

… Please take time too hear the group. Casting Crowns, with music and lyrics, singing If We Are The Body,  calling all Christians, in the Name of Christ, to reach out and serve God, … TOGETHER … as His body.  

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Highlight Passage: … Romans 12:4-5 [NLT] … 

4 Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, 5 so it is with Christ’s body. We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other.  

… The Apostle Paul teaches that Christians are ONE BODY, belonging TOGETHER to serve the Lord … TOGETHER … as living sacrifices!             

    

Highlight Passage (in context): …  Romans 12:1-5 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… The Apostle Paul calls on fellow Christians to come living sacrifices, serving God TOGETHER as the Body of Christ.                                                                                                                       

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Reference Passage: … Matthew 28:19-20 … [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …   

…  Jesus commissions His disciples (that’s all of us Christians!) to GO and serve Him aswitness TOGETHER to make more disciples and teach them all our Lord has commanded them (us).    

Reference Passage: …1Corinthians 12:12-13, 27 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … </b> 

… The Apostle Paul shows how Christ’s body, the Church, is to come TOGETHER, with all parts working TOGETHER, empowered by God’s Sprit to serve The Lord as ONE BODY..                        

Reference Passage: … Ephesians 4:12, 15-16 [NLT] …  USE THIS Link …  

… The Apostle Paul shows that in Christ we all become part of one body, … the body of Christ. 

Reference Passage: …Philippians 2:3-5  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

…Once again Paull charges ALL CHRISTIANS to take on the attitude of Christ serve the LORD, serving and helping fellow Christians as ONE BODY in Christ.   

Reference Passage: … Colossians 1:18, 24  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

…  Paul repeats God’s call for Christians to come TOGETHER as HIs body to serve God, even suffering for His glory just as He suffered to save mankind.            

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author, Karen Huang  AT THIS LINK  -relates how one small town, … Whittier, Alaska, … is actually about 300 people, mostly all located under one roof as an apartment complex.  Amie, a former resident said of living In Whittier, … “I didn’t have to step outside the building─the grocery store, notary public, school, and post office were on our ground floor, just an elevator ride away!” 

And if my readers today have heard the challenging linked song and meditated on the Scriptures above, I hope we sense the call from Jesus Himself and God’s from the Apostle Paul to come TOGETHER, as the BODY OF CHRIST to serve and worship our God as HIS BODY.  And I’m asking myself today what I might do, being empowered by God’s Spirit, to work TOGETHER with my fellow Christians to contribute my body - as a living sacrifice - to serve our Lord in service to His Body, . the Church.              

My THANKFULNESS ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for calling me to give and serve all I can in Your Body, Lord, … Your Church.        

My Prayer Today:  Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I’m praying that those who read with me here to join me to come TOGETHER as Your, Body, Lord, to serve You today.    …  Amen

 

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