I pray all of you are well and abundantly blessed. May the Lord our God lift you, your families and ministries up and bless you abundantly. I came across this message today and wanted to share it with you out of love and the call to duty. Please read it and think about Chaplain Robins message. I feel that we as brothers and sisters in Christ have an obligation and duty to God and our fellow brethren to address the issue and wounds of the church and fix it....We as servants through love, much prayer and the gift of discernment and wisdom...Talk, plan and rectify the problem that afflicts us as a body...The Church. Lots of Love... Your brother
The Holy Spirit: The Soul In the Body
But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased.—1 Corinthians 12:18
Let us review something here that we probably know: the doctrine of the life and operation of Christian believers on earth—starting with the fact that the Christian church is the body of Christ, Jesus Himself being the Headship of that body. Every true Christian, no matter where he or she lives, is a part of that body, and the Holy Spirit is to the church what our own souls are to our physical bodies. Through the operation of the Holy Spirit, Christ becomes the life, the unity and the consciousness of the body, which is the church. Let the soul leave the physical body and all the parts of the body cease to function. Let the Spirit be denied His place in the spiritual body, and the church ceases to function as God intended....
According to the Bible, the whole body exists for its members and the members exist for the whole body. And that, of course, is the reason God gives gifts, so that the body may profit spiritually and maintain spiritual health and prosperity in its service for Jesus Christ in an unfriendly world. Tragedy in the Church: The Missing Gifts, 14-15.
"Lord, I pray today that we in our church might be aware of Your presence, that we might be faithfullly exercising the gifts You have given, and that we might be a healthy Body that pleases You. Amen."
Reprinted from Tozer on Christian Leadership by A.W. Tozer, copyright © 2001 by Zur Ltd. Used by permission of WingSpread Publishers, a division of Zur Ltd.
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My dear brothers and sisters
Chaplain Dan
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