How Was Your Weekend?
Posted by: David Bunch
Welcome to another Monday! Where do the weekends go as they fly by at the speed of life?
I had a great weekend that was highlighted by our 5th Sunday Service yesterday afternoon. We were incredibly blessed to have two great missionaries with us, Bro Monte Showalter and Bro Terry McFarland. God's Spirit moved in a great way and it is impossible to quantify all of the things that happened to various individuals in one 2 hour service. But suffice it to say that we had an incredible time.
Bro Showalter preached on a really neat concept that seems somewhat simple, but the more you think about it the more profound it becomes. The idea is that under the Old Testament Law a person who came in contact with a dead body, a leper, or any other "unclean" individual was contaminated and ritually unclean. There was a purification process for such people.
But Jesus Christ went about literally touching lepers, dead people, etc. and was not unclean. Rather, his virtue "rubbed off" on the needy person, thus creating a reversal of the law.
And because Christ dwells in us, we should not be afraid to touch the needy around us!
Amen and Amen.
Welcome to another Monday! Where do the weekends go as they fly by at the speed of life?
I had a great weekend that was highlighted by our 5th Sunday Service yesterday afternoon. We were incredibly blessed to have two great missionaries with us, Bro Monte Showalter and Bro Terry McFarland. God's Spirit moved in a great way and it is impossible to quantify all of the things that happened to various individuals in one 2 hour service. But suffice it to say that we had an incredible time.
Bro Showalter preached on a really neat concept that seems somewhat simple, but the more you think about it the more profound it becomes. The idea is that under the Old Testament Law a person who came in contact with a dead body, a leper, or any other "unclean" individual was contaminated and ritually unclean. There was a purification process for such people.
But Jesus Christ went about literally touching lepers, dead people, etc. and was not unclean. Rather, his virtue "rubbed off" on the needy person, thus creating a reversal of the law.
And because Christ dwells in us, we should not be afraid to touch the needy around us!
Amen and Amen.
