Have you ever been driving your car somewhere, only to “wake up” and realize that you’ve spent the last 5 minutes in mental autopilot heading in the wrong direction? Your car is heading home, but you fully intended to go to the grocery store. Our subconscious is often a huge blessing, but sometimes, it leaves us heading home without bread for dinner.
I feel a great sense of inadequacy to sit down and write a blog on witness. Yet, I believe it is so essential to what we are as ekklesia (church) that I must at least try to frame why it matters and where we should focus our attention.
It is clear in the New Testament that every member of the ekklesia (assembly or congregation) should participate in gatherings to edify and encourage one another as they assemble. In fact, this was normative. Believers expected to have the privilege and obligation to bless each other using the gifts the Holy Spirit had given them. It was not a cultural thing. It was a Spirit thing.
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