Calvary

Glimpses of the Kingdom

Yesterday was tremendously encouraging to my family and I.  Living 45 minutes away isn’t the most ideal way to develop relationships in community, but never the less we were excited about what we both experienced and observed in a day like yesterday  as part of Calvary.  During our morning gathering Pastor Paul mentioned how our Sunday gatherings should be a picture of how every day should look for us as members of this body. Things like hearing/learning the Scriptures, singing, praying, repenting, forgiving, eating, etc. These are not to be part of a weekly program but part of our daily life together in the body.

During the course of being among the people of Calvary yesterday we: greeted one another (not with a holy kiss but hey, it’s 2009), we prayed together, we shared testimonies of how God’s sovereign grace has changed us by the gospel, sang together, heard the word preached together, assembled the elders to pray for healing and strength, ate together, laughed together, saw some folks crying together, we gave offerings together, we brought prepared meals for one another, shared in the Lord’s table together.  These are signs that we are living as a people who desire his will to be done on earth as it is in heaven.

The question for all of us is how are these things that we can experience in one day together being embodied throughout the week? Who from the body is regularly involved in your life in such ways? How is the Spirit leading you to fulfill the more than 60 “one anothers” of the New Testament? Who are you seeking to bless this week? Whose story are you hearing? What person that is far from God are you praying for and inviting into this kind of life together so that they may see the gospel at work in the people of God?

“YOUR Kingdom come Lord”