It Happened on a Common Day Among Common People |
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Skrevet af Jørn Nielsen
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Lørdag, 25. marts 2017 05:08 |
I was last Thursday on my way with my wife to a an old, weak-sighted Christian lady, 88, for a cup of coffee. Just a few yards from her house we were approached by another elderly woman who wanted to give us a beautiful, handy "heart book" which I already knew so well. It has on each little page a key bible word and it has been published in several languages. (The picture shows the front page in the Farsi (Persian) language.)
"I´m not from Jehovahs Witnesses", she said. I smiled , "No, but I can tell you love the Lord Jesus Christ!" She smiled back and suddenly she knew me. So we went along and she joined us at that afternoon coffee/tea table with home-made bread at the 88 years old lady´s house.
Here we were. The two ladies in question were in appearance not exactly what would impress this world of vanity, but it pleased the Lord to give us a spirit of sweet fellowship as we shared Christ with one another. They go to denominations that I´m not attracted to, theologically, but their genuine "hearteology" was warm and real. They meet every week for prayer, and they promised to pray for a specific need, I shared with them.
Then I thought, the Christians are often divided and in disagreements like what I just noticed is the case with Trump´s party, the Republicans, - but we shouldn´t be and had our setting that afternoon been in a concentration camp, we would immediately have had a strong sense of unity in Christ in a spirit of mutual love.
At our coffee table fellowship there were no platform show, no platform jokes, no artificial noise, and yet the reality of Matt. 18:20 was there. That´s what many of us need to come back to, indeed that vision was renewed in my heart that "common" afternoon. - March 25, 2017 - jn
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