Going by Faith and Love

You can be a major player

On the mission field

Just with your heart-felt prayers.

Your resources can go

Where your feet cannot go.

 

You can sing many songs

By connecting with the singer

By just being a partner

Assisting in whatever way you can.

God will reward you greatly.

 

You can write many books

Even without lifting a pen

You can preach many sermons

Without being a pastor or a teacher

An evangelist, prophet or apostle.

By just being a rope-holder, armour-bearer.

 

We need each other; we’re a unit.

We belong to the body of Christ.

Like the black and white keys on a keyboard.

⁹          For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building. 1Cor3:9

⁴     There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.⁵ There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord.⁶ And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all.⁷ But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all:⁸ for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit,⁹ to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit,¹⁰ to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.¹¹ But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.

¹²   For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.¹³ For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body — whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free — and have all been made to drink into one Spirit.¹⁴ For in fact the body is not one member but many.

¹⁵   If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the body?¹⁶ And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the body?¹⁷ If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling?¹⁸ But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased.¹⁹ And if they were all one member, where would the body be?

²⁰        But now indeed there are many members, yet one body.²¹ And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”²² No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary.²³ And those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor; and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty 1Cor12:4-23

¹¹   And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,¹² for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ,¹³ till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;¹⁴ that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting,¹⁵ but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head — Christ —¹⁶ from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.

Eph4:11-16

¹⁵ Now you Philippians know also that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church shared with me concerning giving and receiving but you only.¹⁶ For even in Thessalonica you sent aid once and again for my necessities.¹⁷ Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that abounds to your account.¹⁸ Indeed I have all and abound. I am full, having received from Epaphroditus the things sent from you, a sweet-smelling aroma, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God.¹⁹ And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.²⁰ Now to our God and Father be glory forever and ever. Amen. Phil4:15-20

⁴¹ He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward. And he who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward.⁴² And whoever gives one of these little ones only a cup of cold water in the name of a disciple, assuredly, I say to you, he shall by no means lose his reward.”

Matt10:41-42