Seeking the Center - a podcast by Apostle Aje Pelser

By Apostle Aje Pelser

In orbital thinking we seek the center which is Christ.

When an ice skater pulls her arms closer in towards her body, she speeds up and twirls with centripetal forces. During this time we have had an opportunity to go deep and seeking the center of all we believe and hold dear. This is true especially with regards to the church. We looked at the dynamic operations and functions of the human cell and realized that God in His infinite wisdom and complexity decides our DNA form the central nucleus of life and that is what we seek: Christ within the hope of glory in every believer, every function, every church.

Keys to functioning in a Body of Believers

1. Christ in you

Col 1:24 I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of His body, which is the church,

Col 1:25 of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God which was given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God,

Col 1:26 the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints.

Your measure of faith determines your level of function.

Rom 12:3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.

Rom 12:4 For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function,

Rom 12:5 so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.

Rom 12:6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith;

Rom 12:7 or ministry, let us use it in our ministering; he who teaches, in teaching;

Rom 12:8 he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

If we are saved by grace through faith, why do we often forget to operate by grace through faith in our functions? Some suggested answers could include: selfish ambition; a need for fulfilment, status, vanity

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