A CALL TO ACTION (PART 1)

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The scriptures. May God bless the reading of His holy word.

Finally, all of you should be of one mind.

1 Peter 3:8

This ends this reading from God's holy word. Thanks be to God.

Today, we will be starting a rather lengthy series of messages, simply titled A Call To Action as we look at things the Word of God call us to do as believers in Christ Jesus.

Did you catch that Christians are to be doing things that God calls them to do?

This is because disciples of Jesus are never in a place in life where they are to be passive about their Christian responsibilities. At a base level, just look at the Great Commission, the foundational marching orders for every single person who places their belief in Christ.  Our Savior said this:

“...go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.” Matthew 28:19-20

Go.

Make.

Baptize.

Teach.

These are all demands from Jesus, the One who has been given all “in Heaven and on earth” (Matthew 28:18), and they aren’t optional. He didn’t say, “I recommend that you go and make disciples” or “It would be a good idea if you could baptize people in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit” or “If you have time, please teach others to obey everything I have commanded”. No, Jesus told us to go and make and baptize and teach, and it on us to make it a priority and obey the mandate from our Lord.

Now, obviously the Word of God places a lot of requirements on believers outside of the Great Commission and we will be looking at a collection of those found in Peter’s first letter found in the New Testament. Let’s get started with today’s call to action from verse 8 of chapter 3. There we read:

Finally, all of you should be of one mind.

Note here the word “one”. This means just what it says, that all Christian believers “should be of one mind” and this means no dissent or dissension in the ranks.

With this, ask yourself how far away the body of Christ is from this right now. If we’re honest, it should be a very troubling matter to think about for the church couldn’t be more divided and fragmented today, some 21 centuries after the Word offered this command to “God’s chosen people who are living as foreigners in the provinces of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia” (1 Peter 1:1).

Why has this happened? How could the body of Christian believers be so broken and shattered when it comes to unity?

The answer is actually pretty simple because the fundamental problem at hand is people are either leaning on the ways of the world in running their church or they’re relying on their own understanding as to how the church should be or a combination of both. The primary emphasis seems to be on everything except Jesus Himself, the Head of the church itself (Ephesians 1:22-23) and if we’re truly going to be the united body of Christ then Christ needs to be first in all the church does. Every single Christian believer needs to “be of one mind” in Him and in Him alone.

The call to action in this first message is for the body of Christ to lock stepped and bound together in Him, fully submitting every thought, word, or deed to His leading through the power of the Holy Spirit.

There’s a lot of work to be done, a lot, but let us remember that the Lord has worked much greater miracles than getting the church back to where it needs to be. He can easily mend what’s broken if we all come to Him together as one.

Amen.

In Christ,

Mark

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