Yesterday I blogged about the need of being more like the Father and not like the older brother when it comes to reaching people in our church and community. That we need to embrace and not reject people for any number of reasons.
How can we be more embracing of prodigals in our lives and church?
A couple of thoughts:
- First of all we need to be open, loving and receptive of diversity. We need to embrace differences in worship styles, clothing, hair styles, and many other things. We need to realize that Christianity is not about making people into a cookie-cutter style. I am thankful for the great diversity that is in our church body.
- We need to understand that people are in different places in their spiritual journey with the Lord. We are all not at the same place spiritually and we need to realize that some are not serving the Lord, others are new in the Lord and others have been growing in the Lord for years. Let us appreciate the questions, doubts, the feelings of all people.
- We need to trust the Holy Spirit to lead people into the changes that He wants them to make in their lives. We are not the ones who can change people, that is the ministry of the Holy Spirit.
- Pray for our services this weekend that there will be a genuine move of God in people in our service. If the Holy Spirit does not draw, convict and move then we will not see anything spiritual happen anyway!
Let us allow every prodigal to come and find the love, acceptance and embrace of people who love the Lord!
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