Reading Time: 3 minutesWe have a tendency to read the Bible as though it’s always addressing us and our needs, but it’s often addressing us as the disciples of Jesus, explaining how we are to meet the needs of others, how we are to collaborate with God in causing the Kingdom of God to show up on the earth, how we are to do the works of Jesus, the works of the body of Christ. That’s the case with this passage…
Reading Time: 19 minutesHow Jesus taught his disciples, and us, to do the works of the Kingdom of God.
Reading Time: 6 minutesJesus was going to be made ruler over all the earth and his disciples would become the instruments, the executors, the putters into effect of his reign. So he says to them, whatever you decree in my name I will do it.
Reading Time: 6 minutesUnfortunately, most people’s Christianity is all hat and no cattle, all blow and no show, all mouth and no trousers. I like to call believers who can actually deliver the goods, believers whose God actually shows up, just like Elijah’s and Anthony’s and Paul’s, Blackbelt Christians.