Romans 15

Romans 15

The Roman Church was filled with rich, poor, Jews and Gentiles so there was bound to be be many differences between them. Since it's in our self glorifying nature to cater towards what makes us comfortable or secure, wouldn't it glorify God all the more if we align our interest along His? One of the strongest takeaway lessons from Liam's lectures from Cape Town was that God's original intention for our wellbeing is to have perfect communion and relationships with Him and the rest of creation. When we invest in each other it shows that God is supremely valuable and he partake in fellowship because of Him rather than business connections and social life. The way I see it as diverse as the western suburbs is we should be reaching out to the; gangsters, drug dealers, strippers, heroin addicts, alcoholics as well as the racists, spiritually young, spiritually misguided etc. It's a shame, I want us to do more evangelism but it seems like we're too focused on our comfortable christian cliques or hang outs. Am I expecting too much? Are my standards too high even if it is based in scripture? I guess the best I can do is pray pray pray, God's timing is perfect and I am forever assured that His will is done. I just hope that our community will be continued to move in acting out his will just like we have been for the past year. We have  improved so much and I thank God for that.

Prayer/response:
- collectively we will not be complacent with our welcoming/evangelism culture. we should do as much as God allows us to with discernment and prayer
- not become pharisaic in how much I do and what others do
- we would love each other in a way that could build each other up around christ rather than memes n banter