First Church of Jerusalem

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Today's Early Church Wisdom
'If you fast regularly, do not be inlated with pride, but if you think highly of yourself because of it, then you had better eat meat. It is better for a man to eat meat than to be inflated with pride and to glorify himself."'
Isidore the Priest
4th / 5th c. A.D.
This week's Psalm is Psalm 29 'The Voice That Stills The Storm'

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Overflowing Life

When Jesus says, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men” (Matt. 4:19) He was teaching that authentic outreach is not fundamentally a program but the overflow of a life daily walking and talking with God, for one cannot draw others toward Christ without first abiding deeply in Him. As Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote, “When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die” (The Cost of Discipleship, 1937), emphasising that true discipleship demands active trust and self-surrender. In a similar vein, John Stott observed that “the church exists for mission as fire exists for burning” (Christian Mission in the Modern World, 1975), reminding believers that evangelism is not optional but central to the identity of Christ’s followers. If we will seek first the kingdom of God, we can be confident that all grace required will flow from that. In fact, such is the exuberant nature of God and the unfathomable depths of His love for us, that it will be not just a flow, but an overflow!

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