Weekly Pursuit – Week 5 of November
Verses:
1 Cor. 12:31 “But earnestly desire the greater gifts. And moreover I show to you a most excellent way.”
Excerpts:
The end of 1 Corinthians 12 reveals that love is the most excellent way. How do we shepherd people? Love is the most excellent way. Love is the most excellent way for us to prophesy and to teach others. Love is the most excellent way for us to be anything or do anything. Love prevails. We should love everybody, even our enemies. If the co-workers and elders do not love the bad ones, eventually, they will have nothing to do. We must be perfect as our Father is perfect by loving the evil ones and the good ones without any discrimination. We must be perfect as our Father because we are His sons, His species. This is most crucial. We must love any kind of person. The Lord Jesus said that He came to be a Physician, not for the healthy ones but for the sick ones.
The church is not a police station to arrest people or a law court to judge people but a home to raise up the believers. Parents know that the worse their children are, the more they need their raising up…The church is a loving home to raise up the children. The church is also a hospital to heal and to recover the sick ones. Finally, the church is a school to teach and edify the unlearned ones who do not have much understanding. Because the church is a home, a hospital, and a school, the co-workers and elders should be one with the Lord to raise up, to heal, to recover, and to teach others in love. (The Vital Groups,” ch. 8)
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