We did not get enough time at our board meeting, early Sunday morning
past week, as we had to sort through a lot of urgent practical activities to
do. And I am hoping that our leaders
will take time and discuss the value of being aligned at our next meeting. This
week pastors of Western Ontario met to talk about aligning the work of our
churches for more impact on our communities.
Pastor Atencio led with devotional on the need of teamwork. The church as the Body of Christ has no
individual victories, unless we win together.
There is no competition in the Church as the Body of Christ but group
effort, and it needs alignment!
Have you ever visited a chiropractor? You know about alignment – when
your bones and vertebra are aligned you are well and functioning. When something is out of alignment – it
causes pain, tensions, scaring and dysfunction.
For the Body of Christ, the church to seek alignment is to adjust one
another, to be in the place we were made and were appointed to be, to consider
how we connect with one another, and who we are connected to. In bone-setting business, often doctor has to
break afresh what was set without proper alignment, and then reset it again.
Consider how your life and schedule is aligned. Are you taking into consideration your church
family, the schedule of the church, events planned by different ministries as
“body parts”? Are you involved, do you
participate and attend events, seminars, activities of the Church?
I hope you are reading, thinking, and examining yourself, and your place
in the Body. There are a lot of things
that we need to transform, we need resurrection from spiritual death and
awakening from dormancy. Education and
discipleship is one of our urgent needs. Improvement in leadership and
management is needed. Yet, without
proper alignment it will not happen.
Let me share this simple Biblical picture: Psalm 85:13 Righteousness will go before Him, And
shall make His footsteps our pathway.
When we walk in His footsteps, when our path is aligned with God’s path
we will all walk together instep!
We either align, or malign. Apostle Paul was out of alignment, kicking
against the goads (Acts 9:5) until he met Christ and got redirected. Some of us may need the “Damascus Road
experience” to recognize our need for alignment. May the words of psalmist David be your
desire - Psalm 37:23: The steps of a
good man are ordered by the LORD, And He delights in his way. May God order your steps, may your steps be
in-step with the Church as Body of Christ.
May we all be aligned with God’s Will and purpose, and walk together in
unity, rowing in sync.
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