Experience Transforming Reconciliation through the Freedom of Christ
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MEDIA ADVISORY, Sept. 14 /Christian Newswire/ -- The African impala has the ability to jump thirteen feet into the air and thirty feet in one direction. Yet this amazing, graceful animal will not jump at all if it cannot first see where his jump will end, and therefore it can be successfully contained within a three-foot wall when in captivity. The inability to live by faith keeps the impala from doing what God created it to do. Efrem Smith's book, Jump: Into a Life of Further and Higher, encourages believers to jump into the Spirit-filled life of the Beloved. Realizing who they are in Christ enables believers to make a series of jumps that will take them higher and further into an intimate relationship with Christ. Even though we cannot always see the end result of these leaps of faith, in Christ's strength we can become radical reconcilers for the advancement of the Kingdom of God on earth.
The first leap all Christians must make is the leap into Christ's love. Because God is in the business of using ordinary people to do extraordinary things, as one of His beloved, you can now look forward to a leap of becoming part of the beloved church. There is something powerful about praying for one another, walking with each other in our spiritual growth, and meeting each other's needs. Through community worship and fellowship, we then become the vehicles God uses to forge the beloved community. God's people become empowered by the overflow of His love and become able to reconcile the things of the world that separate and divide God's people. No longer will we be separated by the three-foot walls of legalistic rules and racially divided congregations. We will be able to use our God-given gifts to fulfill God's great Kingdom purpose for our life, and have a transforming effect upon the world around us.
Using examples from his own life-experiences, Smith shares his passion of encouraging believers to look beyond the world's definition of value and blessing and to use our God-given gifts to express the love that Christ has poured into our own lives. As we reach out to others, we must be loving, gentle, patient, and, in some cases, very slow. It takes time for others to learn to take the jump of faith and move past the three-foot walls that contain them.
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