A Gathering: Here’s An Idea

Here’s an idea. But before the idea, here’s a few questions to consider:

When they’re together, would you get the impression that each one has something offer that can help others? When they choose to meet, would you know that each one has a gift to share with the others?

For some, they got the impression that because they couldn’t talk as well as others that they had little to offer. For some, they thought that as they were not educated and smart as ‘those up there’, they don’t have much to offer. For others, they look on critically at the few who are doing things and assess the job they did as if itwas a performance for evaluating.

Here’s the idea of what happens when people gather.

People gather with the knowledge that this is an opportunity to serve. A choice gathering with those precious to them in the eyes of the Father. Precious in His eyes, precious in their eyes. As a result of that knowledge, there is a the knowledge that they have been gifted by His Spirit to be a gift to these precious saints. That gift does not have to be a five point sermon, it does not require a microphone and a platform with a spotlight on you. That gift – as it’s from the Father – is something with the Father’s prints all over it. His character is evident as they share the gift – whatever it looks like or sounds like.

People gather with the knowledge that is an opportunity to be served by God. A choice gathering of Jesus with His bride where they get to be purified, washed and supported by His Word either in song, in testimony, in prayer, in instruction, in healing, in wisdom, in food and drink. He is delighted to do that through this manifold expression of believers. If the people are meek enough to serve and humble enough to receive then there is no room for just being a spectator or a critic. There’s every realisation  that you’re an active participant.

There is that idea of what happens when the gathering takes place. There is that idea that the Spirit flowing through the precious saints gives them this concept of what it is to be together. There is that idea of what it is for the love of God to be in evidence among the saints as they learn to be together.

It’s interesting to explore Who came up with that idea …

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For His Name’s Sake

Shalom

C. L. J. Dryden