Am I really healthy as a Christian? Do other people look at me and desire to Join my Church? Is my church increasingly exploding in numbers because of my health or something about me is affecting the church health and growth?
I believe you are assessing your church life and looking at your health in church and how that is affecting your own church and the people around it and within it. Are you that fruit the people would yearn for outside your church? or you are that fruit the people would scold outside your church.
LETS Look at your Health as a Child of God,
The sickly-you. Know why you are not healthy as a Christian. To be healthy is to do the will of God and to be sick is to do your will. Within your walk of life as one who believes that Christ Jesus is your Savior you have checked within you and your life is filled with sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery or indecent actions, idolatry, witchcraft or sorcery, hatred or enmity, discord or hostility or strife, jealousy, anger, or fits of rage or outburst of anger, selfish ambitions, dissensions or divisions or separation into parties and groups or sectarian tendencies, factions or party spirits or the feeling that everyone is wrong except for those of the little group to which you belong, envy, drunkenness or addiction, orgies or wild parties or carousing amongst them. Child of God, how do you say you are for God yet you live in contrast with his desires. If you are allowing yourself to bear all these fruits, then why do you wonder where all the sickness and illness comes from for the unclean spirits you have personally given passage to take over your body. You are sick because you have subjected your body to all sorts of infirmities. your life is no longer fit for Christ Jesus to sit in, your body is congested with products of evil deed and desires (Galatians 5:19-21). You have denied the Lord Christ Jesus to be in charge of your body so you have life. Where Christ is not is your life you become unhealthy. The ungodliness in you makes you unhealthy and as such you bare that are not of our Lord Christ Jesus. The scriptures say, "Do not be misled, Remember that you can not ignore God and get away with it. You will always reap what you sow! Those who live only to satisfy their own sinful desires will harvest the consequences of decay and death (Galatians 6:7-8)." You got tired of doing good and now all you are harvesting is sickness, disease, illness, early deaths, bad thoughts, loss of almost everything, you never get things done even when you try hard, whenever you want to pray something diverts you to something else, you are hated even when it is not your responsibility and the like. You are not health because you no longer live by the power of the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:16, 18). Child of God seek freedom in Christ to be healthy, it is never late for you to turn to God and be healthy again. Once you are ready to give your life back to God, the scriptures give you power over and against unclean spirits (Mark 6:7, Matthew 10:1). The Lord Christ Jesus is ever ready to return in your body and cleans it of all the unwanted infirmities. That to happen, you have to renounce all covenants, all ties, all participation thereof and accept Christ Jesus in your life so that your life be guided by the Holy Spirit at all time and your health will be restored with the presence of our Lord Christ Jesus back in your body once again.
The healthy-you. Know when you are healthy as a Christian. Child of God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob who is love and mercy calls you to share in the eternal life he gives through Christ (Galatians 1:6). For you to be healthy you must have life. Believe in Christ Jesus and you will not perish (John 3:16). As a Christian you are encouraged to follow Christ as your model of how you have to carry yourself so as to keep healthy, for Christ lives in you the moment you accept him as your Savior. By Christ living in you become a healthy Christian. As a healthy Christian you no longer live by yourself, you live by trusting your life to be carried by Christ Jesus, the son of God, for he loves you and that is why he accepts to give himself to you (Galatians 2:20). Once Christ starts to live in you, God himself starts being with you in all struggles. It is then that if you were the kind that always fell sick and was always sickly and troubled, gradually or even instantly, people start to see a change in you. That change in you is Christ in you, Christ working in you and the testimony is the truth the people start to see- for the LORD gives you a shift from what people thought you were to a new and better person- a healthy you. The healthy you means Christ is now working inside you, helping you want to obey God giving you strength, giving you power to do what is right.
When Christ Jesus is in you, your body becomes a new body, for as a Christian you become a new person. The old sinful person has been replaced with Christ Jesus for God made Christ who never sinned to be the offering for your sin so that you could be made right with God through Christ (2 Corinthians 5:21). Since the Lord Christ Jesus now lives in you, your health standard is to stop thinking like you used to, for your old self has been replaced with the presence of Christ Jesus living inside you, and that marks you new life from the sickly-you to the healthy-you (2 Corinthians 5:17)." When you are a Christian the journey of your entire life has changed, your life immediately changes in a sense that you are now cleansed of your sins and given a new reason for living, you look at life and how you behave from the perspective of how Christ Jesus lived his life so that by you doing as Christ did your health is maintained. Everything changes, you now confidently trust in God to make changes in your life. The scriptures say that, "Whatever we do, it is because Christ's love controls us. since we believed that Christ died for everyone, we also believed that we have all died to the old life we used to live (2 Corinthians 5:14).The key factor is you must be open, embrace the changes God wants to make in you and you will not regret as you will keep healthier than before. God wants you to embrace a new life and healthy Christian life filled with love or unselfish concern for others, joy or inner peace at all times, peace n everything or no fear at all for the devil except God himself, patience which is not the ability to wait but how you act when waiting, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness or being lowly at all time or not taking your self as important even when you could, and self control even when you would easily burst out (Galatians 5:22-23). Be mindful of your deeds if you are to keep healthy, not everything is good for you, even when the Lord has allowed you to do it, do not become a slave to evil things, your body is part of Christ Jesus (1 Corinthians 6:12-13, 15). By being with Christ in you, your standard to be healthy is to do good deeds just as Christ for his love controls you. Anything short of these deeds you slip from being a healthy Christian to a sickly Christian.
How does you being a sickly Christian affect church explosion and how does being a healthy Christian encourage church health and explosive growth?
The sickly-you affecting church health and growth. Once the people outside the church want to relate to the church you go to, what they look at is not the church itself. They look at you. They look at the fruits you give out. Once your fruit is of a sickly Christian, then you will not serve the purpose of Christ, you will not serve the purpose of the church, you will not be helpful to the people outside the church. You are stagnant and you only have to give your life to Christ afresh for you and the people outside the church are the same. With you being sickly, there will not be church health, there will not be church growth. You are already not right with God, you are following a different way that pretends to be the Good News but is not the Good News at all, you your self are being fooled by those who twist and change the truth concerning Christ (Galatians 1:6-7). You are the one who comes to church and sleep, who tell lies about the church, who does not pray, who does not trust in the Lord and comes to church for the sake of it, your the one who prays because Pastor so and so is preaching- you never come to church to worship God but to see how Pastor so and so is preaching, you condemn others, you go for fellowship only when you feel like, you compare your church maturity and spiritual growth with people instead of Christ, you go to church because you have seen gatherings and as such you believe in gatherings and not God, your the one the grace of God passes by and you come out of church worse of the way you went there for you do not believe and as such you also corrupt the people outside the church to continue failing to believe. You remain sickly while others heal and you never contribute to church health and growth as no one from outside the church wants to associate with you and your church because of the fruit they see in you.
The healthy-you encouraging church health and explosive growth. Since you have been renewed in Christ and he lives in you, every actions and fruits that come of you are of the good. The people outside the church because of the goodness that comes of you will want to know where your church is even with out you. You will not go to them, they will come to you so that they too may tap into the freedom you have attained through Christ. They will appreciate to be around you, they will want to be like you for you exhibit the good fruits of the Holy spirit who controls your life (Galatians 5:22). God uses you as testimony for those outside the church to see his glory and worship him in truth. God wants to use a healthy Christian to transform those outside the church so that they too can have life. Once those outside the church see the fruit of good testimony in you a healthy Christian, nothing holds them back from giving God complete control of their lives and allowing the Holy Spirit to work in them just as it is with you the healthy Christian. Once the Holy Spirit starts leading you, you become a Child of God, Just as Christ Jesus is, and so your deeds and your self are healthy as Christ who also lives in you (Romans 8:14). This is the same with you, you seek God to be like Christ Jesus and by the spirit of adoption through Christ, you become free and healthy and you earn the right to call God Abba, Father. That Spirit is Christ Jesus himself (2 Corinthians 3:17). It is Christ who intercedes for the healthy Christian and helps you in all infirmities, sprinkling all evil conscience off you with his blood to make you clean and healthy and washed with clean water (Hebrews 10:22-24). Now that your conscience is filled with a new persona, the new healthy Christian has no doubt, holds tight to the hope in Christ, through Christ the Christian trusts in God, when the healthy Christian trust in God-God keeps his promises, and whenever the healthy Christian prays all prayers are answered, sickness is healed and all infirmities cleaned off to be a healthy Christian (Hebrews 10:25). It is these that the people outside church desire for, the change in you. They look to you for they find you useful to them.
The Lord Christ Jesus makes you useful to the people outside so that you are able to do his purpose. Christ Jesus prepares you himself and you start to exhibit acts of fellowship and communion, good discipleship and attracting people from outside the church to be good followers as well, worship, ministry as people start finding you helpful or a generous giver or one who helps the sick to heal, and doing Christ Jesus mission of evangelizing the lost to come back to church and believe again for health. As such the people outside the church quickly seek for church renewal by repentance and accepting Jesus and forgiving all they ever had a grudge on in a way of personally being renewed, they after that receive Christ Jesus and become healthy which also makes the church healthy and with their addition to the already existing numbers, the existence of explosive church growth starts to be realized. Therefore, the healthy-you leads you to the other you. The other you is your brother, your sister in Christ outside church that you need to realize is lost so that you bring him or her back to be made right in the presence God. With this being inclined in the healthy Christian's attitude, the benefits are expansion in church congregation, doing as Christ to attract the congregation to worship Christ, and letting the church be the effect of a miracle - which is your testimony attracting more people to look out for the church. Testimony is key in growth because, For a Christian to grow or a church to grow, the believers must believe, talk about and take the word of God seriously (Acts 5:42). When a church member testifies back home, to friends or to family members or to school members this attracts other members to attend church and as such church growth happens. For instance if one Jude was short and after few sessions of church the Lord touched him and he suddenly became tall as his healing or deliverance, this testimony will attract many to experience the same from where it happened. Therefore growth is beyond the fellowship you the Christian you have in your church or house of prayer and or worship. As a Christian you have to go out of church and continue teaching the Good News that Christ Jesus is the Messiah. As a Christian always try to fellowship in smaller groups or home cells of worship and fellowship for your own growth as this will encourage you and increase your spiritual growth.
What about the actual Church or house of worship itself, How does it grow? In what form should it grow? What brings about explosive growth?
Lets take Christian Healing Church Ministry in context-CHCM. For CHCM to grow, it must grow both in the form of LARGER and SMALLER at the same time. Now you are asking yourself how this is possible? LARGER through church celebration services, and church worship including preaching or teaching. SMALLER through small home cells or groups and or fellowships and individual discipleship or call of followers.
once the members have come to church. That is not enough, for the church to grow faster there must be say ushers or church ministers responsible for welcoming new disciples and making them feel welcome. More to this is that today elderly people are few in the case of Uganda where for instance youth are approximately 70% of the population, so in such a case focus of the population with the larger numbers most. Once you have attracted people, you have to have a stable address or stable communication system or stable strategy of operation or stable program of service. These all in place, the church can expand in an explosive way including the touch of the Holy Spirit to guide people to the correct place of worship as it is common for the evil forces- to be specific the body soul spirit to divert people and make people do what they do not want to do as the body fights the soul (Galatians 5:16-18). It therefore all depends on the individual Christian to be healthy so as for the church to expand and grow explosively.
They healthy Christian's own personal efforts that lead to the explosive growth of the church. Much as the Pastors, Teachers, Evangelists, Prophets and Apostles will have done their work as ministers in the service of the work of Christ, it takes the effort of the individual as well for the church to rapidly explode and increase in its numbers of followers.
The healthy Christian, in order to help the church in which you go to worship to have added followers, Guided by the scriptures in Acts 2:42-47, you must individually Grow spiritually. You as a Christian you should take some effort and devote yourself to the teachings by going back in your free time to study more about them in depth, to the fellowship, to the communion, to the prayers given or guided by the pastor and not devoting yourself to the Pastor or church ministers. As a healthy Christian you should always be personally involved in Fellowship. While you fellowship; share with a glad or joyful and generous humble heart (2 Corinthians 8, 9),develop relationships with other people, meet other people beyond yourself, eat together as an act of communion, and be sincere always. Fellowship makes you the Christian understand other people or people outside your self closer so that you are exposed to the chance of comforting and providing for each other as well as minding one another's needs. As a healthy Christian always keep yourself in Worship. While worshiping, you should be able to surrender your time, be personally involved not just listening on television or radio with no action, be involves in sharing of say communion of offertory by giving whatever you can according to what you have for if you are really eager to give, it is not important how much you are able to give. God wants you to give or share what you have, not what you do not have (2 Corinthians 8:11-12), pray in gap as you pray for yourself and others, praise all the time making sure while you praise you also enjoy the good will and favor of the people and the Lord and always encourage someone to worship with you without coercing them or forcing them to worship. As a healthy Christian always involve yourself in Ministering to one-other-someone else as another person also ministers to you. Try as much as you can to encourage yourself in Christ and go out of your way for someone else with a need, go into home worship cells as you focus on supporting or encouraging each other while you also meet each others needs, while watching one another in an act of being obedient to the will of God by following his pathways. Also do not just leave evangelism to the evangelist, involve yourself and Evangelize those outside the church that are lost or fallen of backslide and encourage them back into the presence of the LORD God through accepting Christ Jesus. Focus evangelism on adding onto your church number, get people saved by leading them into converting to believe in Christ and as such their lives be renewed as yours, by so you engage yourself in God's mission of sharing the Good News. As a healthy Christian, once you engage in such effort you have engaged in the actual purpose of the church as it is in the scriptures. To maintain your health as well as the health of the church, then maintain in every church member all the purposes of the church. Once the Christian is healthy the church is healthy and once the health is maintained, their is individual growth as well as church explosive growth.
Let's Pray;
LORD my God, I come to you with a broken and sincere heart today. I have been living in contrast with your will by living to satisfy my own sinful desires. All this while, I have been misled and in turn I have misled your church, I have been ignoring you all this while and as a result what has become of me is ill-health. I enjoyed associating with sexual immorality, impurity, indecent actions, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, hostility, jealousy, anger and allowing myself be carried away with outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, filled with the feeling that everyone is wrong except for those of the little group to which I belong, envy, excessive drinking and drunkenness, addiction. I have reaped what I sowed and now my life is filled with decay of sickness, disease, illness, early death, bad thoughts, loss of everything, I find myself never getting anything done even when I try hard, I feel all my prayers are blocked, I do what I hate to do, I dream all sorts of wicked dreams.
LORD my God, I now renounce all that I have done that is not your will. I repent my sins and forgive all those that I ever had a grudge so you may forgive me too. I rebuke all my evil ways and come to you clean. I put my loyalty in you the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. I call onto the Lord Christ Jesus to be in charge of my body and fill me with life again, for I accept him as my Lord and Savior and through him, I place all my loyalty to the Almighty LORD God.
Through the Lord Christ Jesus, I now call onto your mighty power O God, that you may accept me the way I am and fill me with your Holy presence. Lord Christ Jesus, make me useful so that I may be able to do your purpose for you are the head of the church and in charge of my body. Prepare me O Lord, so I be that healthy Christian and I start to exhibit Fellowship with communion, Good discipleship that attracts people from outside the church to being loyal followers of the truth of your salvation and mercy, worshiping you unceasingly and sincerely, working in your will and ministry by allowing people to find me helpful and more generous, as I also do your mission of evangelizing those misled believers that are as lost as I once was to come back to church and believe in you for it is only through you Lord Christ Jesus that true church health in me and other believers is restored. O Lord, by you renewing me and now living in me, I now believe to be guided by your Spirit to always do good. Now I rejoice as I start to tap in the freedom I attain through you Christ Jesus as in me I start this new journey of speaking and being seen in me a fruit of good testimony. LORD my God, may you protect me never to falter again as you keep me safe under your safety always. I pray through my Lord Christ Jesus,
Amen.
SCRIPTURES
Galatians 1: 6-7 (Holy Bible, NLT 2nd Edition)
6 I am shocked that you are turning away so soon from God, who called you to himself through the loving mercy of Christ. You are following a different way that pretends to be the Good News 7 but is not the Good News at all. You are being fooled by those who deliberately twist the truth concerning Christ.
Galatians 2: 20 (Holy Bible, NLT 2nd Edition)
20 My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Galatians 5:16-26 (Holy Bible, NLT 2nd Edition)
16 So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. Then you won't be doing what your sinful nature craves. 17 The sinful nature wants to do evil, which is just the opposite of what the Spirit wants. And the Spirit gives us desires that are the opposite of what the sinful nature desires. These two forces are constantly fighting each other, so you are not free to carry out your good intentions. 18 But when you are directed by the Spirit, you are not under obligation to the law of Moses. 19 When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, 21 envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God. 22 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things! 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and crucified them there. 25 Since we are living by the Spirit, let us follow the Spirit's leading in every part of our lives. 26 Let us not become conceited, or provoke one another, or be jealous of one another.
Galatians 6: 7-9 (Holy Bible, NLT 2nd Edition)
6 I am shocked that you are turning away so soon from God, who called you to himself through the loving mercy of Christ. You are following a different way that pretends to be the Good News 7 but is not the Good News at all. You are being fooled by those who deliberately twist the truth concerning Christ.
Galatians 2: 20 (Holy Bible, NLT 2nd Edition)
20 My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Galatians 5:16-26 (Holy Bible, NLT 2nd Edition)
16 So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. Then you won't be doing what your sinful nature craves. 17 The sinful nature wants to do evil, which is just the opposite of what the Spirit wants. And the Spirit gives us desires that are the opposite of what the sinful nature desires. These two forces are constantly fighting each other, so you are not free to carry out your good intentions. 18 But when you are directed by the Spirit, you are not under obligation to the law of Moses. 19 When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, 21 envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God. 22 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things! 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and crucified them there. 25 Since we are living by the Spirit, let us follow the Spirit's leading in every part of our lives. 26 Let us not become conceited, or provoke one another, or be jealous of one another.
Galatians 6: 7-9 (Holy Bible, NLT 2nd Edition)
7 Don't be misled- you cannot mock the justice of God. You will always harvest what you plant. 8 Those who live only to satisfy their own sinful nature will harvest decay and death from that sinful nature. But those who live to please the Spirit will harvest everlasting life from the Spirit. 9 So let's not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don't give up.
Mark 6:7 (Holy Bible, NLT 2nd Edition)
7 And he called his twelve disciples together and began sending them out two by two, giving them authority to cast out evil spirits.
Matthew 10:1 (Holy Bible, NLT 2nd Edition)
1 Jesus called his twelve disciples together and gave them authority to cast out evil spirits and to heal every kind of disease and illness.
John 3:16 (Holy Bible, NLT 2nd Edition)
16 "For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
1 Corinthians 6: 12-15 (Holy Bible, NLT 2nd Edition)
12 You say, "I am allowed to do anything"-but not everything is good for you. And even though "I am allowed to do anything."I must not become a slave to anything. 13 You say, "Food was made for the stomach, and the stomach for food."(This is true, though someday God will do away with both of them). But you can't say that our bodies were made for sexual immorality. They were made for the Lord, and the Lord cares about our bodies. 14 And God will raise us from the dead by his power, just as he raised our Lord from the dead. 15 Don't you realize that your bodies are actually parts of Christ? Should a man take his body, which is part of Christ, and join it to a prostitute? Never!
2 Corinthians 3:17 (Holy Bible, NLT 2nd Edition)
17 For the Lord is the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
2 Corinthians 5: 14-21 (Holy Bible, NLT 2nd Edition)
14 Either way, Christ's love controls us. Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life. 15 He died for everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live for themselves. Instead, they will live for Christ, who died and was raised for them. 16 So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How differently we know him now! 17 This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! 18 And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to him. 19 For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people's sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. 20 So we are Christ's ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, "Come back to God!"21 For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.
2 Corinthians 8: 8-12 (Holy Bible, NLT 2nd Edition)
8 I am not commanding you to do this. But I am testing how genuine your love is by comparing it with the eagerness of the other churches. 9 You know the generous grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that by his poverty he could make you rich. 10 Here is my advice: It would be good for you to finish what you started a year ago. Last year you were the first who wanted to give, and you were the first to begin doing it. 11 Now you should finish what you started. Let the eagerness you showed in the beginning be matched now by your giving. Give in proportion to what you have. 12 Whatever you give is acceptable if you give it eagerly. And give according to what you have, not what you don't have.
Romans 8:14 (Holy Bible, NLT 2nd Edition)
14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.
Hebrews 10: 22-25 (Holy Bible, NLT 2nd Edition)
22 let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting him. For our guilty consciences have been sprinkled with Christ's blood to make us clean, and our bodies have been washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise. 24 Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. 25 And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.
Acts 2: 42-47 (Holy Bible, NLT 2nd Edition)
42 All the believers devoted themselves to the apostles'teaching and to fellowship, and to sharing in meals (including the Lord's supper), and to prayer. 43 A deep sense of awe came over them all, and the apostles performed many miraculous signs and wonders. 44 And all the believers met together in one place and shared everything they had. 45 They sold their property and possessions and shared the money with those in need. 46 They worshiped together at the Temple each day, met in homes for the Lord's supper, and shared their meals with great joy and generosity- 47 all the while praising God and enjoying the goodwill of all the people. And each day the Lord added to their fellowship those who were being saved.
Acts 5:42 (Holy Bible, NLT 2nd Edition)
42 And every day, in the Temple and from house to house, they continued to teach and preach this message: "Jesus is the Messiah."
Mark 6:7 (Holy Bible, NLT 2nd Edition)
7 And he called his twelve disciples together and began sending them out two by two, giving them authority to cast out evil spirits.
Matthew 10:1 (Holy Bible, NLT 2nd Edition)
1 Jesus called his twelve disciples together and gave them authority to cast out evil spirits and to heal every kind of disease and illness.
John 3:16 (Holy Bible, NLT 2nd Edition)
16 "For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
1 Corinthians 6: 12-15 (Holy Bible, NLT 2nd Edition)
12 You say, "I am allowed to do anything"-but not everything is good for you. And even though "I am allowed to do anything."I must not become a slave to anything. 13 You say, "Food was made for the stomach, and the stomach for food."(This is true, though someday God will do away with both of them). But you can't say that our bodies were made for sexual immorality. They were made for the Lord, and the Lord cares about our bodies. 14 And God will raise us from the dead by his power, just as he raised our Lord from the dead. 15 Don't you realize that your bodies are actually parts of Christ? Should a man take his body, which is part of Christ, and join it to a prostitute? Never!
2 Corinthians 3:17 (Holy Bible, NLT 2nd Edition)
17 For the Lord is the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
2 Corinthians 5: 14-21 (Holy Bible, NLT 2nd Edition)
14 Either way, Christ's love controls us. Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life. 15 He died for everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live for themselves. Instead, they will live for Christ, who died and was raised for them. 16 So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How differently we know him now! 17 This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! 18 And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to him. 19 For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people's sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. 20 So we are Christ's ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, "Come back to God!"21 For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.
2 Corinthians 8: 8-12 (Holy Bible, NLT 2nd Edition)
8 I am not commanding you to do this. But I am testing how genuine your love is by comparing it with the eagerness of the other churches. 9 You know the generous grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that by his poverty he could make you rich. 10 Here is my advice: It would be good for you to finish what you started a year ago. Last year you were the first who wanted to give, and you were the first to begin doing it. 11 Now you should finish what you started. Let the eagerness you showed in the beginning be matched now by your giving. Give in proportion to what you have. 12 Whatever you give is acceptable if you give it eagerly. And give according to what you have, not what you don't have.
Romans 8:14 (Holy Bible, NLT 2nd Edition)
14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.
Hebrews 10: 22-25 (Holy Bible, NLT 2nd Edition)
22 let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting him. For our guilty consciences have been sprinkled with Christ's blood to make us clean, and our bodies have been washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise. 24 Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. 25 And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.
Acts 2: 42-47 (Holy Bible, NLT 2nd Edition)
42 All the believers devoted themselves to the apostles'teaching and to fellowship, and to sharing in meals (including the Lord's supper), and to prayer. 43 A deep sense of awe came over them all, and the apostles performed many miraculous signs and wonders. 44 And all the believers met together in one place and shared everything they had. 45 They sold their property and possessions and shared the money with those in need. 46 They worshiped together at the Temple each day, met in homes for the Lord's supper, and shared their meals with great joy and generosity- 47 all the while praising God and enjoying the goodwill of all the people. And each day the Lord added to their fellowship those who were being saved.
Acts 5:42 (Holy Bible, NLT 2nd Edition)
42 And every day, in the Temple and from house to house, they continued to teach and preach this message: "Jesus is the Messiah."
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