After yesterday's service, the brave warriors saw the sick.

…After yesterday's service, the brave warriors
…seeing the sick…😨
they felt compelled to help and prayed earnestly.
…The church is, in a sense, a spiritual
community.
…A community…shares the same pain and joy.
…Unless one has experienced pain, one cannot understand the feelings of those suffering from pain.

Unless one has experienced hardship, one cannot understand the feelings of those in hardship.

…Unless one has experienced sorrow, one cannot understand the feelings of those overwhelmed by grief.

…When Job…lost his children, his possessions, and suffered from a terrible skin disease, he was in agony both physically and mentally.
His close friends came to comfort him, but…😨
…Job 2:12-13 states:
“When they looked up from a distance, they could not recognize that it was Job. They wept loudly, and each of them tore their cloaks and scattered dust on their heads, towards the heavens.
…“They sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, but when they saw how great his pain was, no one spoke to him.”
…This is what I believe community is.
Community is bound together by God's love❗️.
…The pain in the little finger…is pain throughout the whole body, and the body naturally adopts a posture to protect the little finger❗️.
This is our ideal church.

✳️We still have a long way to go...😰
Let's all work together to build the body of Christ❗️

Shalom😃

This page archives a Morning Word message shared by Pastor Peter Sunagawa on LINE. The English prose is a translation of the Japanese source message. For Scripture wording, use the BSB link above.