The One Body: Ambassadors for Christ – Audio
The One Body: Ambassadors for Christ
The Great Mystery Witnessing and Undershepherding New Life Island (Upper Black Eddy, PA) Shaak, Erin 08/17/2024
This teaching looks at how we work together as a Body to make God’s will of having “all men to be saved, and come unto the knowledge of the truth” come to pass. First, you are needed. Each believer has an important role in bringing God’s will to pass. Be an ambassador for Christ wherever you are, and don’t allow schisms in the Body. Second, you have what you need. We give people the Word which always works, the same power what was in Christ, and the authority that comes with the ministry of reconciliation.
Choosing to Serve – Audio
Choosing to Serve
Jesus Christ’s Example The Great Mystery New Life Island (Upper Black Eddy, PA) Rosa, Nathaniel 08/16/2024
We represent Christ as ambassadors, so we should choose to serve like he did. This teaching looks at how Jesus Christ served despite being the only perfect man and how the Apostle Paul served despite the mistakes he made in the past. Each believer has a different role in the body, but we are all equally important. We are instructed to put ourselves aside in order to serve.
We Are Witnesses – Audio
We Are Witnesses
The Great Mystery The New Birth Witnessing and Undershepherding Spruce Lake Retreat Center (Canadensis, PA) Mercado, Dean 07/05/2024
The Friday morning fellowship began with singing and prayer, building up to a ministering service in which believers who wanted to be prayed for were ministered to by others.
The teaching highlighted God’s will that all people be saved and come unto a knowledge of the truth, that this is his heart for everyone. It then traced how God provided for the first part of that will by raising Jesus Christ from the dead and making available the gift of the holy spirit in the new birth. The second part of His will requires that we witness to the truth of the resurrection by our words and by our operation of the power we’ve been given. The good news we announce to others is of the more than abundant life available now, as well as the hope of the eternal life that we will have in the future, and the Mystery is held up as the answer to all the division in the world. Paul’s speech before the Roman governor Festus and King Agrippa in Acts 26 is used to show all of these principles in operation.
