In Spirit and Truth

“Then Jesus came to them and said, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.’” Matt 28:18-20 Paul called us ministers of reconciliation. Jesus called us his body, the physical representation of his ongoing presence in our present age. Anyway you look at it, we are people with a mission. And just like Jim Phelps of “IMF” it is a mission that we can accept, or deny. Our mission, should we choose to accept it, is to make disciples of all nations. To teach them everything Jesus commanded. Lest we quickly return to the law, let us remember what it was that Jesus commanded of us. “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” Unconditional love is a light to a lustful world. Unco

NIV Exodus 34:6 And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, "The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. When God proclaims his name to Moses, Moses does what any of us would do in that situation, he hit the deck! Never before had the world known this kind of God. All of their gods had to be appeased, lest they become angry and send a plague. All of their gods had to be given regular gifts, lest they forget the people who worshiped them. All the gods they knew were capricious and selfish. But Yahweh came in with a completely different personality than anyone expected. Compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness! This description of God is used nine times in the NIV from Exodus to Nahum. The people forgot God, and yet, He remained faithful to them, he was slow to anger. As the Psalmist said, “If you, O