Daily Devotionals - Monday

Theme: Total Church

In Acts 2:46-47 we see that church is not something the early Christians went to, but rather an something they all were: "They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts,  praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved."

• They were a group of people where everyone could be themselves - "sincere hearts".
• They were a group of people that were not trying to worship themselves, but "praising God".  I can imagine that talking about God was very natural in their conversations. 
• They were a group of people that were a blessing to the non-christian community around them - enjoying their "favor" and seeing some of them come to faith.  

Prayer: Lord Jesus, we long to be a church community where all of us can be ourselves.  We realise that this is dangerous - since each one of us is fraught with our own sin and evil.  But we praise you that you have given us forgiveness in Christ and the power to reign over our sin as the foundation of our church community.  We pray that we will be attractive to the world because of this openness and real gladness that characterises our church.   Amen 

Rev. Kruger de Kock

London

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