The body of Christ we are all

There are some things the Lord cannot do for you. One of them is to proclaim your message. God's message of reconciliation with men transcends the walls of necessity and becomes an inalienable duty. It is a matter of life and death. A cleric from the past once said: "It is not enough that I believe in God, if my neighbor does not believe in Him." This is a statement that makes sense to the Christian. The greatest endeavor of the Christian man and woman is to seek God and make others do so as well. “Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his face continually ”(1 Chr 16:11). That is conforming ourselves to the will of God, to the commission to which we have been called, even if we have to embody the sufferings and sufferings of our Savior.

No one has the power to see the risen Christ, but they can see him through your life and your example. The goals of Christ are difficult. If they were easy, most of the world would already be redeemed. That is why we must walk with Christ in the sense that the urgency of preaching imposes. One of the reasons why God chose us is because he saw in us the potential to be workers willing to be useful vessels in his Kingdom. I am one of those who believes that God does not make choices for mere pleasure.

But good intentions do not always find open doors and it is, on occasions, our interpretations of the Truth and beauty of the Gospel that constitute brakes and dangerous obstacles to fulfilling the Great Commission, proclaiming God and collaborating with Him to extend the Kingdom. Sometimes the worst happens: we criticize other evangelical brothers in their work as sowers. The Bible warns us in a passage where Jesus makes his position clear: “Teacher,” John intervened, “we saw a man casting out demons in your name; but since he is not with us, we try to stop him. Do not stop him, "Jesus replied," because he who is not against you is for you "(Luke 8: 19-50, emphasis added).

The entire mission of the church is based on working with God to transform lives in Christ, on assuming and raising, with Him on our side, the banners of the redemption of man in every corner of this planet. Seen in this way, stripping ourselves of personal (or denominational) criteria acquired in a "cold war" between Christians themselves takes us away from supreme goals, confuses us, entangles us in goalless contests, and ultimately defeats us. Who wins the lawsuit when a Christian (or a group) tries to establish themselves as the most genuine interpreter of the Word, of Christianity and the gospel? Without a doubt, the winner is our adversary. By the way, the word Satan or Satan means adversary.

The Word tells us: “Do not do anything out of selfishness (rivalry) or out of pride, but with a humble attitude each one of you considers the other as more important than yourself. (Phil 2: 3)

The dissensions (differences, disagreements) among Christians who have borne witness to the love of Christ, unfortunately, break and tarnish the virtues of the Gospel, which announces the opposite: reconciliation. We have to live decently, as in the daytime, without envy (Rom 13:13) towards those brothers who in good faith do their work with the tools they possess, and although they have particular interpretations of the Gospel, they do so with the best desire to save the lost, to serve, to give the best of himself. One of the greatest Latin American men of the 19th century once said: "All the glory of the world fits in a grain of corn."

All the glory of the world crashes against the cross of the one who died stripping himself of his own glory. Why do we allow ourselves to be carried away by the eddy winds of differences and dissensions?

Jesus told his disciples: as long as they work on my behalf for the extension of the Kingdom (or cast out demons, among other jobs) we are on the same team. Are we not?

How sad - it happens in my country, unfortunately - is to see a community where there is a group of evangelical churches each working on their own side and with suspicions of the other, simply because that other belongs to a different denomination! Christ must cry in heaven to see the immaturity of consecrated ministers playing the devil's game in these struggles where we all lose out.

With so many beautiful things to do, we cannot afford the luxury of complacency, pride, vanity! Pride has been the main cause of thunderous falls on more than one occasion. We need to grow in Christ, look at his stature and desire with all our hearts to reach him in holiness. This is not to say that we should not denounce false doctrines. To fold our arms is to renounce the benefit of our priesthood as mature Christians.

To savor the honey of victory in Christ, all of us - not just some - must get on the same train: that of unity, piety, love of neighbor, knowledge of the Lord, tolerance and mutual respect and submission to the Lord. another in love, as a force that unites and never dissolves or excludes. The absolute truth is Christ and we are all one body. We all need each other, we need to complete ourselves without differences in the redemptive cross and fight for this brotherhood won by our only Redeemer at an inestimable price.

God bless you!