Our Sacred Roots: The Priesthood of All Believers

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Pray without Ceasing – Flash Prayer for the Day Open my eyes, O Lord, to see wonderful and new things from your Word for my life.

For Your Weekly Journey

Weekly Reflection on the Priesthood of All Believers The word witness though expressed as such only four times in the preceding passages, is the key to all of them. Each passage emphasizes verbalizing the truth about Jesus, each forcefully carries the thrust that witnessing is to be the main task of the whole church in the whole world throughout the whole church age. This is summed up in the commission Jesus gave his followers immediately before his Ascension (see Acts 1.8). Any fair interpretation of these words will insist that the command includes every Christian. It was given to the whole church. The Christian is to go into all the world, “even to the uttermost part.” This certainly includes every Christian’s personal world, for it takes all the personal worlds of all the Christians scattered over the Earth added together to cover the geographical world. The whole church is to go into the whole world.

~ Roy J. Fish and J. E. Conant, Every Member Evangelism for Today . Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 1976. p. 6.

Let God Arise! Seasonal Focus The Chosen One of God , Luke 9.28-36

Book Reading Carter, Guard the Good Deposit

Special Church Year Service The Presentation of the Lord: Wednesday, February 2, 2022