Quote from "Total Church" from Tim Chester & Steve Timmis. p.41
“By becoming a Christian I belong to God and I belong to my brothers and sisters. It is not that I belong to God and then make a decision to join a local church. My being in Christ means my being in Christ with others who are in Christ. This is my identity. This is our identity. To fail to live out our corporate identity in Christ is analogous to adultery: we can be Christians and do it, but it is not what we as Christians should do. The loyalties of the new community supersede even the loyalties of biology… If the church is the body of Christ, then we should not live as disembodied Christians.”
Where did we ever get this idea that we can become Christians and not change. We are new creatures, the old is gone, see it has all become new. So much help in the Bible about Character pitfalls, how to treat each other, how to be a good neighbor, a good servant. We, as Christians are born into a new family and that family has other priorities and standards to the old. Let us ask God to complete the good work he has begun in us. Let us submit to his authority, take on his desires, be broken by what breaks him, love his family and our neighbor as ourselves.
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