Becoming the Church Jesus Longs For: Forbearing with One Another

Hope Presbyterian Church in Winston-Salem Sermons

Series: Becoming the Church Jesus Longs ForScripture: John 13: 34-35; Ephesians 4: 1-6 “Getting saved is easy; becoming a community is difficult – damnably difficult.” Eugene Peterson “If we do not give thanks daily for the Christian fellowship in which we have been placed, even when there is no great experience, no discoverable riches, but much weakness, small faith, and difficulty; if on the contrary, we only keep complaining to God that everything is so paltry and petty, so far from what we expected, then we hinder God from letting our fellowship grow according to the measure and riches which are there for us all in Jesus Christ.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer “The biggest problem people have in searching for the perfect community is just that. You don’t find community; you create it through love. Look how this transforms the way you enter a room of strangers. Our instinctive thought is, “Who do I know? Who am I comfortable with?” There’s nothing wrong with those questions, but the Jesus questions that create communities are, “Who can I love? Who is left out?” Paul MillerThe post Becoming the Church Jesus Longs For: Forbearing with One Another first appeared on Hope Church PCA.