Fellow Labourers-
Why build hills? Is it because we like to climb? So yes, if we like to climb we must either take the hills available or build our own. How do I make the decision on whether to build or not, and if I have to build what are my choices for material? This is where praying and thinking comes in and these are two things some of us would like to avoid.
I believe though that it is time to build a hill called the kingdom. There is something I learnt which I have not yet confirmed that in the gospels the word church only appears twice and it's in the book of Matthew, but the word kingdom appears 54 times in that same Gospel. Who is going to confirm this for me? As we try to build hills and distinguish among them let us also build the church and the kingdom and distinguish between them. One encloses us whilst the other frees us, but we have the choice to be enclosed in a greater circle.
Pax Vobiscum
Robert A. Stewart
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Sis. Paulette wrote:
ReplyDeleteIt is factual that the word church appears only twice in Matthew (Matt. 16:18 and 18:17). Interestingly, it should be noted that the word ekklesia which means the called out - referred to as the church is mentioned 114 times.
It is also factual that the word "kingdom" is found 54 times in Matthew.
It is also worth noting that it is said that when Matthew got up from that table to follow Jesus he didn't leave his pen behind and about twenty or thirty years after Jesus went back to heaven the Holy Spirit inspired him to write what we have today as "The Gospel of Matthew."