How It Ought To Be

Sunday I started a series on how the Family of God should interact. It's called Family Meeting and Sunday I started with the affirmation that each of us who have come to faith is part of the Family of God. (A metaphor I borrowed from the Apostle Peter.)

In reflection of the message I know I preached on how it ought to be. The fact is there are many people that are part of the family that just don't feel like they are. They don't feel befriended, valued, or welcomed. The only way to get there is to look at how it ought to be, and let the Holy Spirit lead us there. I think the next steps of that process are in how the family interacts in the following areas: Conflict and Care.

The next two weeks we are going to look deeply at these two issues. If we know how to handle conflict and if we know how to properly care for each other those feelings of not fitting, melt away. The question is whether we'll follow the instructions of Peter to abound in love because it covers over a multitude of sins.

None of us is perfect, and no church is perfect, but we need to love more like the Family of God we're a part of.

--Ben