Stepping up and Stepping out!

3 John 1:3 "It gave me great joy to have some brothers come and tell about your faithfulness to the truth and how you continue to walk in the truth."

The Christian life is all about walking with Christ and that means walking together. We are never walking alone. When you become a Christian, one of the most important things to learn is the need to have Christian friends and surround yourself with them so as not to grow weak. In this verse we see that others saw how fellow Christians were walking, and they commented to John about how well they were doing in their Christian Walk.

There are three Questions to ask yourself considering your walk with Christ.

1. Who are three people who are walking closely with you in Christ?
2. What would they say about you and your walk with Christ?
3. What would your life be like without those three people?
4. What are the dangers of walking life alone?
   

It is easy to see how desperately we need each other. Life is too short to go it alone. As we travel through life it is the quality of the company we keep that makes life rich, meaningful and enjoyable. Also, relationships in Christ bring great joy. There is too much gloom, doom and negativity in the world to get us down. Only Christ and the relationships He brings to us can give us great joy. It is beautiful to see what Christ is doing in peoples lives as a way of changing the landscape of our world. Dig deeper, go further, get to know your Christian brothers better and you will see how God has truly designed us to live. When the weekend rolls around, my family and I cannot wait to go to church and see our friends and find out how their week went, and what God is doing in their lives. It is great to have this support in our lives. Our prayer is that you find this support too in your local church.

Pastor Vince Gonzales