Fear NotSample

God Has Given Me a Place in His Church All kinds of wonderful things happen when you become a believer, whether you become part of the body of Christ as a little child or as a retiree. Your status with God changes from enemy to child. Your future changes from condemned to saved. Your spiritual appearance changes from filthy to glorious in God's eyes. Another marvelous benefit is that you acquire an enormous number of new friends and family members. As you are connected to Christ, you are automatically connected to his brothers and sisters. Isn't that amazing? No Christian can possibly say, "I am alone." "Remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God's people and members of God's household" (Ephesians 2:12,19). Are you part of a congregation? You have a network of people to worship with, pray with, serve with, laugh with, grow with, and learn with. Through your church you can be an important encourager of other strugglers. And there you can let people minister to you. Then you will know how you matter in God's scheme of things.