How do we take real, visible steps of following Jesus? How do we take the Jesus in the Bible, and actually live out in our lives what we see in Him? This is the topic we dig into today, and we discover an incredibly helpful connection between abiding in Jesus, and obeying Jesus.
We are looking at what the next steps are in our journey of faith. Before we do any of that, how do we know what the first step is, and how do we take it? To see what that is more clearly, we will look at the first step of one of Jesus’ closest disciples, Simon Peter.
In our introduction of this Series entitled "Next Step", we are reminded that each of us, no matter where we are in our journey of faith, have a "next step" in front of us. What keeps us from taking those steps? And how does God's Word help us?
What are ways we can see if a church is healthy? One of the ways is by seeing the attitude of the body of the church. As God designed us to build each other up in our faith, it's helpful to see how our individual attitudes can affect the whole body.