PB Devotion
Back To Church Sunday is a national church event that happens on the 3rd Sunday of September each year where the churches of America come together to invite their communities to church! Get ready to invite your people to CLWOC In-Person or Online Sunday, September 15th.
Get back to church! Help someone let go of any reason that has kept them out of church.
In Matthew 23, Jesus says that the greater leader is the one who is the servant. This is the distinguishing mark of leaders in the kingdom of God. Likewise, in Ephesians 5 Paul describes the “head” as the person who treats the life of another as more important than his own. The kingdom of God is the only place where you find these definitions. It’s as if Jesus and Paul are handing us a dictionary to help us understand what things mean in the kingdom. You can find bloodthirsty CEOs in corporate America. In legalistic religious families you can find tyrannical heads and leaders. In emerging nations you can find leaders who call the shots and punish anyone who disagrees. But not so in the kingdom. People who use their authority to these ends in the kingdom have no authority, at least not from God.
True spiritual authority isn’t taken or asserted. It doesn’t come because you hold a titled position, receive a degree, or get a salary. It is given by God for the purpose of shepherding God’s flock. Those with authority use it to serve, build, and liberate the members of God’s family. They do not use it to manipulate or control.
“Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, “The teachers of religious law and the Pharisees are the official interpreters of the law of Moses. So practice and obey whatever they tell you, but don’t follow their example. For they don’t practice what they teach.”
Matthew 23:1-3 NLT
Church is ordained by God. You will find many reasons not to go to church. I encourage you today to let those reasons go and obey God. Get back to church!!
Get back to church! Help someone let go of any reason that has kept them out of church.
In Matthew 23, Jesus says that the greater leader is the one who is the servant. This is the distinguishing mark of leaders in the kingdom of God. Likewise, in Ephesians 5 Paul describes the “head” as the person who treats the life of another as more important than his own. The kingdom of God is the only place where you find these definitions. It’s as if Jesus and Paul are handing us a dictionary to help us understand what things mean in the kingdom. You can find bloodthirsty CEOs in corporate America. In legalistic religious families you can find tyrannical heads and leaders. In emerging nations you can find leaders who call the shots and punish anyone who disagrees. But not so in the kingdom. People who use their authority to these ends in the kingdom have no authority, at least not from God.
True spiritual authority isn’t taken or asserted. It doesn’t come because you hold a titled position, receive a degree, or get a salary. It is given by God for the purpose of shepherding God’s flock. Those with authority use it to serve, build, and liberate the members of God’s family. They do not use it to manipulate or control.
“Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, “The teachers of religious law and the Pharisees are the official interpreters of the law of Moses. So practice and obey whatever they tell you, but don’t follow their example. For they don’t practice what they teach.”
Matthew 23:1-3 NLT
Church is ordained by God. You will find many reasons not to go to church. I encourage you today to let those reasons go and obey God. Get back to church!!
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