>Hi Loving Ones,

I really like this, and I know some of you already receive Donnie 
Parretts Daily Bible Readings, but this one is excellent. I wanted to 
share it with those of you who don't receive it.

We need to keep praying for our Churches, and all the people who 
attend them. I love them all! <squeeze>

You are all Loving! <squeeze>

Please read below.

Lovingly,

Pat Ferguson


>WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER
>
>
>"But now
>God
>  has set the members, each one of them, in the
>body
>just as He pleased"
>I Corinthians
>  12:18
>I have noticed a disturbing trend among
>Christians.
>More and more I hear people say things like, "The church would be 
>better off without so and so" or
>"Why don't they just leave, we'd all be better off."
>I've even heard Christians say they wished other people dead. I Pray 
>that they were exaggerating,
>but still underlying all of this talk is a serious sense
>that many of us feel we can do without the others.
>
>I hate to be the one to break this to you, but, WE ARE IN THIS 
>TOGETHER. We can't just pick and
>choose who we go through life with and we certainly can't
>pick and choose who God has decided to put us into fellowship with 
>in the church.
>
>Paul has a wonderful way of putting this into focus in I Corinthians 
>12:21-26 "And the eye cannot
>say to the hand, "I have no need of you"; nor again the
>head to the feet, "I have no need of you." No, much rather, those 
>members of the body which seem to
>be weaker are necessary. And those members of the body
>which we think to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater 
>honor; and our un-presentable parts
>have greater modesty, but our presentable parts have
>no need. But God composed the body, having given greater honor to 
>that part which lacks it, that
>there should be no schism in the body, but that the members
>should have the same care for one another. And if one member 
>suffers, all the members suffer with
>it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice
>with it."
>Can you get this picture of one part of the body arguing with the 
>other telling it to leave. What
>kind of life would we live if that were the case. Likewise,
>if we are going around thinking that another member of the body of 
>Christ is expendable then we
>cause the body to suffer and when the body suffers we suffer
>along with it. I might also add this goes for those who are not yet 
>members of the body. We must
>never "write off" someone as too bad to be saved. We all
>need each other. Once we lose sight of that we have lost sight of 
>the Gospel of
>Jesus Christ
>  who died for us all and not just those we like to have around. 
> Amen and Amen.
>
>~~~~~
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