Touch Through Me

Touch Through Me

1 John tells us "God is love". Two weeks ago we started worship
singing "they'll know we are Christians by our love". Unfortunately
the first thing many people outside the church think of when you
mention the church or Christians is not love. Wouldn't it be great if
the church was known...if Christians were know ...as those people who
love everyone...people of radical love. But, what can we do? A small
local church surrounded by many churches of different sizes and
denominations. Some much larger and with louder voices. Even media
contracts that allow them to reach millions. What can we do? Jesus
compared the kingdom of God to a mustard seed and to yeast. Both very
small but capable of having a transforming effect on everything around
them. What can we do? What can I do?

1 John 4:16 NIV
And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love.
Whoever lives in lovelives in God, and God in him.

The Parables of the Mustard Seed and the Yeast
Matthew 13 NIV
31 He told them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like a
mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. 32 Though it
is the smallest of all your seeds, yet when it grows, it is the
largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the
air come and perch in its branches." 33 He told them still another
parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and
mixed into a large amount of flour until it worked all through the
dough." 34 Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; he
did not say anything to them without using a parable. 35 So was
fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet: "I will open my mouth
in parables, I will utter things hidden since the creation of the
world."

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