This week the blog is sponsored by Zondervan Reflective. This was an excerpt from The Reason for Church: Why the Body of Christ Still Matters in an Age of Anxiety, Division, and Radical Individualism. Written by church planter and podcast host Brad Edwards, this book encourages believers to rediscover the goodness and beauty of the Body of Christ.
Whether you struggle to share the gospel with your neighbor, sacrificially love your spouse, pass the faith onto your children, or “love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might” (Deuteronomy 6:5), covenant membership is the A-to- Z of reintegrating life and cultivating faith in Christ. Paul says we can hope for and pursue that growth even within a profoundly flawed and imperfect spiritual greenhouse:
I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor. For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, God’s building. (1
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