But God, who is rich...
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"But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)." (Ephesians 2:4-5)
In the church people can still encounter the living God. Whenever men and women are brought into the very Presence of the living God, nothing short of resurrection is adequate to describe what happens.
A pastor in New York City tells how in the course of an afternoon of calling he met a retired doctor in an old rundown apartment. The doctor was old. He had neither family nor friends. He had even lost contact with the church. The minister asked some members of his church's Men's Club to call on the elderly gentleman and to try to bring him back into the warm fellowship of a Christian group, such as the Men's Club, and back to the worship of the church.
It was the beginning of new life for the retired doctor. "Where I was just existing before," he said, "I am now finding life worth living. It has been a literal resurrection from the dead for me."
In the church people can still encounter the living God. Whenever men and women are brought into the very Presence of the living God, nothing short of resurrection is adequate to describe what happens.
A pastor in New York City tells how in the course of an afternoon of calling he met a retired doctor in an old rundown apartment. The doctor was old. He had neither family nor friends. He had even lost contact with the church. The minister asked some members of his church's Men's Club to call on the elderly gentleman and to try to bring him back into the warm fellowship of a Christian group, such as the Men's Club, and back to the worship of the church.
It was the beginning of new life for the retired doctor. "Where I was just existing before," he said, "I am now finding life worth living. It has been a literal resurrection from the dead for me."
