I was truly blessed this week by a statement made from a Pastor on a live stream event discussing the future of the Christian Church around the world. In a brief remark this Pastor summed up what I believe is the call of God for the Houses of God and the men and women, God is using to minister salvation, restoration, and healing during this time.
Our role now as leaders within the church is to train, educate, inspire, equip and then “Let the Holy Spirit do the work”.
As God is calling his children and those who believe in him and the gift of salvation made possible through Jesus Christ, out of the world system of chronic pre-existing suffering, discrimination, and division; God is also calling us to drop the worlds ways of condemnation, shame and guilt as tools of ministry and representations of God.
As children of God, called forth to serve as Ambassadors of God in Christ, we are called to not condemn our brothers and sisters in this world but to minister the gospel of salvation so that they might see and hear Christ and the word of God in and through us.
To truly step forward into the full nature of God on this earth, as we are being called to do, we must drop the worlds method of divisive labeling and projection of sin brought forth by shame.
To show up allowing the Christ spirit in us to shine we must listen, hear, then edify and educate from the word of God as compassionate Ambassadors and Ministers of the Gospel.
John 8:11
She said, No man, Lord And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee go and sin no more.
From the very beginning of original sin within the Garden of Eden, the emotional reaction of projected shame has been an anchor of the spirit of confusions hold on man and this world.
Genesis 3:8
And they heard the voice of the Lord God Walking in the garden in the cool of the day; and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden
Even still, God has continued to be merciful and forgiving of all our transgressions and un-right-eous-ness.
Isaiah 30:18
And therefore, will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the Lord is a God of judgement: blessed are all they that wait for him.
For if God himself is merciful and waits upon us to exalt him and seek his restoration, then how more are we as Children of God and Ministers of Christ to be merciful to one another; especially those still lost into the world?
Titus 3:2-3
To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, living malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
And even yet still;
John 3:16-17
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
For God, sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
As representatives of the Kingdom of God and ministers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, we are to bear witness of the spirit of Christ to minister the transforming power of God’s love. We are to be present here in this world so that God’s spirit through the presence of the Holy Spirit can bring forth the restoration of the lost.
John 6:63
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Brothers and Sisters and Ministers of the Gospel, allow the full nature of God to renew each of us at this critical time and allow the spirit of God and Christ within us to minister the compassionate gospel of Jesus.
Jude 10:21-22
But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
Keep yourselves in the love of God looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
For if the representatives of God are mirroring the same shame and condemnation the world trades upon, then where is our differentiating power?