Daily reflection _ mission of our church

MISSION OF OUR CHURCH
We as Christian people have a responsibility to serve as Jesus did.
Deacon John Ruscheinsky
Mahatma Gandhi once said the following. The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice. So true!
We hear in our modern day - campaigns of "promise making," aim almost exclusively at our needs and desires. What is often missing is a call to service. "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country." This famous quote from the 1961 inauguration of John Kennedy.
When the only question is, "what's in it for me?" aren't we suffering from not developing spiritually? Jesus pointed his eager disciples toward the maturity of the person who has developed a heart to serve. This weekend is World Mission Sunday. We as Christian people have a responsibility to serve as Jesus did. To heal a broken world, we as a community of faith should be assisting the mission of the Universal Church in spreading the Gospel message, to feed each other in God's word. Now this does not happen automatically.
Points to Pray and Ponder: Spiritual maturity means getting out of the passive voice, being served, and into the active, serving. The call to serve, Jesus had taught us, is a beckoning away from death - to life.