This passage has becoming new to me again in the situation we are going through with our church plant La Conexion. We are seeing a sort of change that looks from the outside as if something is dying. I have decided that it is fruitless to look back and try to anylize all of the what if´s..it is a fruitless waste of time to which I need to practice taking every thought captive (2 Cor 12:5) and practice allowing his presence to mould my thoughts even towards the future. Unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. I think this is an image for us at this present time, we are being asked to die to an image that we take comfort in (our present expression of church community) and being asked to allow it to be reborn 1Peter 1:23 says For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. So that we can become something that will be lasting that will endure and in the spiritual realm will multiply imperishable. This is a journey that requires the type of faith that Hebrews 10 that encourages us to preserve and not to shrink back in times when we walking by faith and not by sight. But to see what is in front of us as an incredible opportunity for growth! To allow ourselves to be broken so that what is put back together is immovable and imperishable!
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