I Will Not Betray My HeartSample

A WORSHIPFUL HEART 

The Corinthian Congregation was so bad at doing Church that Paul wrote that it was better when they didn’t get together—imagine that! The disorder was a result of a self-centered spirituality: when the Church gathered, a potluck meal was brought and supposed to be shared by all. What would end up happening is the rich (who generally brought most of the food) would eat first, drink too much wine (resulting in drunkenness), and leave mere scraps for the poor.

The custom of the rich going first was part of the Corinthian culture, and emphatically not the Christian culture: here we have a case in point of the world influencing the Church rather than the Church influencing the world.

The remedy for the spiritual symptoms arising in the Corinthian Church is Christian love: that we wait for one another, realizing that we aren’t at Church to stuff our faces, but rather to serve others and minister to them.

Passion for God’s House is always a passion for others and a putting of others first. Heart for the House is about making sure that the socially outcast and downtrodden find a seat at the Table of the Lord. In what ways can the gifts and talents that God has given you strengthen others this year? What abundance has the Lord given you that you can share with the Body?

PRAYER
Father—open our eyes to those among us that carry heavy loads, and by the gifts that the Holy Spirit has given us, let us willingly carry other's burdens, and so fulfill the Law of Christ, in Jesus' Name!