Called together for a purpose

“Cotton Mather’s idea was to see clusters of believers who ‘would now and then spend half an hour together by themselves, in considering on that question, WHAT GOOD IS THERE TO BE DONE?’. His goal was that every believer be encouraged to develop an eye for human need, to see ‘who is any special adversity; and what shall be done to help “Our union with the Messiah and his desire to continue his earthly ministry by living his life through us are so strong that we may be said to share his three offices of leadership. We are priests as we pray for those near us and draw
them into the sphere of God’s mercy and blessing. We are prophets as we hold a biblicalstraightedge against whatever is crooked around us. And we are kings as we use whatever powers we have to straighten what is crooked, reshaping whatever falls within the scope of our responsibility until it reflects the order of heaven.” --Richard F. Lovelace, Renewal as a Way of Life, p. 168
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