Thought for the Week – 3rd July – Dennis Pethers

And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.  Hebrews 10:24,25

So how can we be effective in faith sharing ‘as we go’ through our daily lives?

 Something that occurred to me not long after I became a Christian is that as followers of Jesus we tend to worship God together but are left to evangelise alone.   We are part of a community when we worship but often completely isolated when it comes to sharing our faith.  The result of this is that many of us lack the confidence and passion to share our faith with people that we meet and spend time with.  Consequently, we say nothing even though we feel that we should.

 The writer to the Hebrews says ‘let us consider how we may spur one another on..’  A key point of meeting together is that we will use the time we are together to help, encourage and empower each other to be able to grasp opportunities for service when we are not together.  A challenge to this is that the way we ‘meet’ often as a large congregation (or small) means that there is seldom any opportunity for us to talk about our struggles/feelings as we seek to share our faith.

 Here’s something for you to pray about over the coming week:  

 ‘How could I, and the church that I am a part of, meet in ways that will spur us on to be effective when we are scattered?