I think a good place to start is chasing after God's own heart. When we love God and pursue His heart, we begin to love the things that He loves and hate the things that He hates.
I heard a great example of this this morning, one thing that God desires for us is to live in community with one another as believers. Not to just be around each other, but to love one another and live as a body of Christ. I was speaking with one of my friends from Germany and she was telling me that she went to this guy's birthday party last Saturday (I met this guy too when I was in Germany). I was amazed because he didn't seem like the type of person she would hang out with or even be friends with for that matter. So I said, "I love that all of you guys are such good friends." and we went on to talk about how I've noticed so many times in my "Christian community" we exclude people who are different from us, even if they are believers in Christ and to this my friend Melanie replied, "our same thing is that we believe in god..most other friends from school don`t do.." I was left dead in my typing. Wow. Absolutely amazing, I know that's what God wants for our community and that unity, is a light to the world in it of itself.
People will want to be part of what we're doing when they see that genuine love that we share. These kids in Germany, will take the train for a couple hours just to go to a birthday party or some other sort of gathering just to be close to their family in Christ. How often do we do that? I mean sure we do it for our close friends, but just another member of the Body of Christ that we don't know all that well? That's definitely a rarity. And I think that is definitely a good place to start, being plugged in to this community, but not just being plugged in, but actually living in that community that Christ longs for us to be part of.
Thanks!
Alysha K.
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