One Hope Outreach THE HUB Newsletter July 2023
- havenministryinfo
- Jul 13, 2023
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Read the July 2023 issue of THE HUB from One Hope Outreach here.
Dear friends and partners:
We praise God for his faithfulness in fulfilling His word when we listen and obey it. He has given the church a commission to go into all the world and preach the gospel (the good news) of His kingdom. We are also grateful that he has raised up partners like you that support us in the great commission. Many lives are blessed because of your prayers and support of One Hope Outreach Ministry.
Have you ever considered yourself to be a disciple of Jesus Christ? A hearer and doer of Christ’s words. A disciple of Christ is not a person that prays a sinners prayer merely to meet the minimum requirement to gain entry into heaven when his or her days on earth have expired.
In the New Testament “disciple” is the English rendering of a Greek word meaning one who professes to have learned certain principles from another and maintains them on that other’s authority.
A disciple is a “Learner” that has decided and practices, loving, serving, helping, supporting, laughing with and sometimes crying with another person.
The love of God is a commandment to every disciple of Christ and is the greatest commandment of God. It covers all the ten commandments given through Moses in the Old Testament. In the New Testament Jesus said, “A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.“ John 13:34-35 (KJV)
This well-known commandment is not to be merely a notion in our heads, but a practice from the heart. Of all the words, parables and sayings of Jesus, there is none which is so much talked about and so little obeyed as this.
The application of this Christian fruit should be heard in our words, seen in our behavior, first at home and then expressed to the broader world in which we dwell.
The apostle Paul says “ love never fails“: ---1 Cor 13:8 (KJV).
Though prophecy and various virtues of the Christian life may fall short of its intended mark the love of God never fails.
The very men and women who cannot comprehend Christian doctrine and know nothing about the body of scripture, can appreciate the God kind of love when it is expressed through a true disciple of the Lord.
No one is yet perfected in this love walk but a disciple is ever learning and putting into practice those things taught by the master.
Let it be settled, that this commandment, to every disciple, will bear fruit in your life today.
-Marvin Smith
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