Most of the RMGs work in a similar way. There is some fellowship, worship, prayer, teaching, discipleship groups, and then more fellowship. So, one might ask, “What is the real reason for the RMGs?” They sound like a fancy Bible study or a small mid-week church service. But, that is not it. In a word, the reason we have RMGs is “discipleship.”
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Previously I presented the Old Testament directives for giving; now we’ll turn to the New Testament. In Matthew 6 Jesus says this: “When you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do…” It is important to note that He doesn’t say if you give, but when you give. Jesus simply assumes it. In fact, there’s nowhere that Jesus tells us that we shouldn’t give to the Lord’s work. After Jesus’s …
I anxiously grabbed the page out of the printer and flipped it over. There they were, smudges, just like the other pages before it. We had close to 100 color copies that needed to be done, and we had nothing to show for it after more than half an hour at Kinkos. We had asked for help multiple times, but the printer still wouldn’t cooperate. After the seventh copy came out of the printer with …
“Cock a doodle doo,” the sound startled me in my sleep. Is it really morning already? It’s pitch black outside… I’ll just close my eyes for a few minutes… Next thing I knew my phone was ringing. It was my friend calling to see if I was up and spending time in the word. “Hello!” I tried to sound cheery and awake. “Hey, are you up? I kept texting you, but you didn’t respond so …
“Son, your sins are forgiven.” Pretty powerful words, huh? I had learned the story of the paralytic from Mark 2 many times since my childhood, and somehow missed the great lesson on God’s forgiveness embedded in the text. Chris’s sermon on Sunday revealed the richness of this interaction with Jesus. Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t miss that the paralytic’s sins were forgiven. I was able to glean AT LEAST that from the text on …