Word-Filled Women's Ministry: Loving and Serving the Church (The Gospel Coalition)
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Word-Filled Women's Ministry: Loving and Serving the Church (The Gospel Coalition)
Go to a local coffee shop and you will see Emiratis, Indians, Europeans, Africans, and East Asians. But instead of blending together, they group themselves according to race and nation.
Kathleen Nielson • Word-Filled Women's Ministry: Loving and Serving the Church (The Gospel Coalition)
Interesting that the different groups still separate themselves and do not blend. We/I still tend to do this. It’s who I /we feel most comfortable with. But we must break this cycle if we are going to genuinely love each other! How can I love you if I choose to separate myself from you?
The danger is that we might dim the image of God and the glory of Christ we’re meant to shine forth with joy, in all our various pathways. The opportunity here is that we get to spur one another on in joyful obedience to the Word, for the sake of the gospel.
Kathleen Nielson • Word-Filled Women's Ministry: Loving and Serving the Church (The Gospel Coalition)
And yet we believers claim to stake our lives on these words and others like them, putting our hope in the clear central message of Isaiah’s book:
Kathleen Nielson • Word-Filled Women's Ministry: Loving and Serving the Church (The Gospel Coalition)
the Bible is that it is God speaking.
Kathleen Nielson • Word-Filled Women's Ministry: Loving and Serving the Church (The Gospel Coalition)
these peoples won’t remain in isolation but will worship God together as his treasured possession at the marriage supper of the Lamb (Rev. 19:6