Today was good. We had a geust speaker come in and talk on the topic of Sex, and particular pure Sex. We looked at songs of solomon and Genesis chapter 2. We discussed that Sex is good, and we are commanded to do it in marrage. However our attitudes for it should be to glorify God, not just a another entertaiment thing we do. I get really embarrased when talks are given on the topic of Sex, Marrage, Dating, etc lol, im not sure why. However nether the less it was good, some new people came aswell to hear the talk.
We also had our second committee meeting, It went well again, and we discussed important matters. I also did another devoation thing, after one of my EU friends showed me an article on Christian Unity. I decided to investigate it future and came up with a short 5 min talk. Here it is:
Ephesians 4:1
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all.
So what is Christian unity? Well first of all, Christian unity is founded in the Trinitarian unity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Jesus also tells us this in John’s Gospel chapter 17. In the Ephesians passage, Paul also puts forward 2 additional directions.
So firstly the fact that there is One Father, One Lord, and One Spirit means that there is likewise only one ‘operation’ of God. One body of Christ which is made up of all who are in him, one hope of our calling, one faith, one baptism by which we enter into Christ.
Secondly this means that Christian unity is a divine creation and gift of grace to us, which we are called on to maintain, not a goal which we are to seek to achieve. As in all gospel matters, it is something that God has done, not something that we can do.
Therefore in Christ we are being brought into a particular kind of relationship with God, and we are also being brought into a particular kind of relationship with all other Christians. Our unity is a unity in the Gospel, and therefore also a unity in the truth, in which we are sanctified (Jn 17:17).
Having an understanding of the gospel basis of Christian unity helps us to grasp with greater clarity the significances of the repeated biblical idea of Love.
So Col 3:14: And above all put on Love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. Let the peace of Christ rule in your heart.
In other words, since Christians have all been lumped together and unified in an act of divine grace and love, so we have no other option than to seek also to treat each other with divinely inspired grace and love.
In terms of our day to day conversations on campus, it means relating to one another with “all humility and gentleness, with patients, bearing with one another with love (Eph 4:2). It means we will be “quick” to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger; for anger does not produce God’s righteousness” (James 1:19-20). And it means that we will “not be quarrelsome but kindly to everyone, patient, able to teach and correcting opponents with gentleness” (2 Tim 2:24-25).
Tommorrow we are going to youth serge in Emu plains, should be great. Anyways i got alot of work to do for tommorrow, and i don't understand it, so i am going to get into it.
May our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, comfort our hearts and establish them in every good works and word. Amen.
Laurence.
Thursday, August 31, 2006
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