22ND JULY
Matthew 13:24-30
“The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field, but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away. So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared also. And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds?’ He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ So the servants said to him, ‘Then do you want us to go and gather them?’ But he said, ‘No, lest in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat along with them. Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.’”
It’s not up to you to determine if a religious person is truly saved or not!
As we train people to share their faith in Christ, many of the church people we train come to personal faith in Christ. When you make it part of your conversation to talk about your relationship with Jesus and one of your church friends starts asking deeper questions, consider the possibility that they still need to be ‘born again’.
And be very slow to declare someone to be not a real Christian, “lest in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat along with them.”
MAKE IT PERSONAL:
Why do you think God wants you to practice loving other believers here on Earth? What is it practice for?