Blending and Building

Hallelujah for the Body!

1 Corinthians 12:24But our comely members have no need. But God has blended the body together, giving more abundant honor to the member that lacked,

One of the blessings of the Body life is the fellowship among the saints and the churches. The church in Gurugram is blessed to blend with many visiting saints and churches worldwide. Now and then, we have the blessing of hosting meeting and lovefeast for the visiting saints. The most recent one being the visit from the church in Pingtung, Taiwan.

As the church, though we just enjoyed our outdoor blending among ourselves, the saints are more than eager to host another blending. Especially, the sisters have functioned quite well in preparing the lovefeast. The most wonderful part is the coordination and blending of the sisters in preparing the food. I was very happy to see even new ones blending into the service. Besides, other new ones were also blended in, in a way of their participation. 

When this fellowship was initiated, we were concerned about how saints would be able to participate as the day was a working day, Monday. All the saints in the church are all working ones. Nevertheless, on the the day all those who could turn up did turn up. It was not a mere gathering of the saints, but the blending together. Much more than the meeting itself, we enjoyed the coordination in the preparation of the blending. 

We all enjoyed the time together, especially we also received life supply from the saints' sharing on the practice of the God-ordained way; how they carry out shepherding in their localities. An encouraging word from a new one was her testimony of how much she felt loved and cared for, and how much blending actually happened among us. By this way of blending, we are all brought into the reality of the church life and are being blended together. And we all were very joyful!

Looking forward to when the Lord will grace us another opportunity for blending. Blending is the way for building up the Body of Christ.