[The Mayor]

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Sharing Space
March 25, 2012

The number of people who run a business out of their homes is in the millions. But some have found that working alone can be a little too lonely. To give these lonely ones a community, “co-working” spaces have been designed. Large facilities are rented out where people working by themselves can share space with others. They have their own work area but can exchange ideas with fellow independent workers. It’s for those who feel they can work better together than they do alone.

Sometimes Christians think they work better alone. But we are meant to work together with others in the church. Every Christian has been placed into “the body of Christ” (1 Cor. 12:27). And the Lord desires that we take part in fellowship with a local community of believers—using our spiritual gifts and working together in His service.

Yet for various reasons, some aren’t able to join in. Because of health issues, they may be shut in at home or may not know how to fit in at church. Yet they are a needed part of the body (vv.22-25). That’s when others can meet their need for togetherness. Let’s do our part so that others may feel they’re an integral part of the community of faith. We work better together than alone.

Thinking It Over
What can you do to help others feel a part of your church
community? Visit, pray with them, read Scripture together,
drop a note, or invite them to join you in serving others.

Fellowship builds us up and binds us together.

Read: 1 Corinthians 12:12-27

Those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary. —1 Corinthians 12:22

Bible in a Year:
2 Samuel 9-12

[jaycee]

I hate to post and run but I'm
going to Braelyn's 2nd Birthday Party!
I have a lot to do getting ready.
Wishing all of you a wonderful Sunday!

[jaycee]

I did take time to read ODB today, Rus, as it always gets me
on my way. Thank you very much!

[Kitty Mittens]

~Flowers from the Internet~

Why art thou Cast Down, O my Soul?
And why art thou Disquieted within me?
Hope thou in God:
For I shall Yet Praise Him,
Who is the Health of my Countenance,
And my God.

(Ps.42:11)

A Blessed Lord's Day to Amy's Place/tr

[yorkie]

Thank you Rus, for this morning's DB.

I am reminded of this hymn, that brings us together in Fellowship:

Blest Be The Tie That Binds (click)

Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love;
The fellowship of kindred minds
Is like to that above.

Before our Father’s throne
We pour our ardent prayers;
Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one
Our comforts and our cares.

We share each other’s woes,
Our mutual burdens bear;
And often for each other flows
The sympathizing tear.

When we asunder part,
It gives us inward pain;
But we shall still be joined in heart,
And hope to meet again.

HAVE A BLESSED SUNDAY, EVERYONE

[geologist]

there is a scripture for that. Probably many.

“Proverbs 27:17

King James Version (KJV)

17.Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.”

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ And Genesis 11:3-9

"3 Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.

4 And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.” 5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.

6 And the Lord said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them.

7 Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.

9 Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth."

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