WE ARE THE CHURCH!

By Pr. Carlito Paes

Every family must have a house, a home to belong to! It doesn’t matter the size or the place. Our spiritual family also has its home, we have many in fact, large and small in many cities.

The church is essential, in its message and in its ministerial service, in addition to its structure, which can be in person or online, and can be an extension of what we do in the homes and on the streets of the city.

The church is like this: we have a house of welcome, integration, celebration, growth, discipleship, healing and sending! We are the church, we are a spiritual family, imperfect like the biological family, because the problem of the human being is sin. All biological families and all churches are affected by man’s sin, but Jesus died for us and for the church, in order to purify it. As it is written: “He gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that is his own, zealous for good works.” (Titus 2:14)

Love, pray, and serve your church – you are the church. I love being part of my local church and serving churches through the Kingdom of God! It is not a place that says yes to the individual desires of family members, precisely because it is healthy and everyone’s family, it says yes to the needs of the member who thinks about the whole and the greatness of the calling, understands that each one adapts to the general welcome and does not expect everyone to adapt to them. And do you celebrate being part of Jesus’ family through your local church?

Christ YES and Church YES. As it is written: “For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.” (1 Corinthians 3:9)