Involvement

[320 words] The Lord’s church consists of saved sinners who have entered into Christ through gospel obedience (Eph. 5:23; 2 Tim. 2:10; Mk. 16:15-16; 2 Thess. 1:8). Anyone who has entered into Christ is a “new creation” (2 Cor. 5:17). Christians are God’s “workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them” (Eph. 2:10). One of the benefits of coming together on the first day of the week to worship God is that we “stir one another to love and good works” (Heb. 10:24). Christians are to be active and involved creatures. As stated above, we have been “created in Christ Jesus for good works.” We were not created to be spectators or by-standers in the Lord’s vineyard. Our Lord “went about going good” (Acts 10:38), and so should we. Be involved. As the song goes, ”To the work! To the…