Saturday, March 24, 2007

God’s Family of Friends

God’s Family of Friends
Saturday, March 24, 2007


“His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ.” Ephesians 1:5 NLT

God offers you a family of friends and friends who are family—his church. When you transfer your trust into Christ, he not only pardons you; he places you in his family of friends.

“Family” far and away outpaces any other biblical term to describe the church. “Brothers” or “brothers and sisters” appears a whopping 148 times between the book of Acts and the book of Revelation.

God heals his family through his family. In the church we use our gifts to love each other, honor one another, keep any eye on troublemakers, and carry each other’s burdens.

1 of 365 devotionals in Grace for the Moment, Volume 2
Originally printed in Cure for the Common Life

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