Before we begin…

People do not become Christians because we have found some fantastic way get closer to them and how to address them.
Jesus offers a life and identity and a world that is worth it. If we are Christians, then we are the people who are worth it, we live that life it is worth it, and we are witnessing to all of this the new world we have discovered, we live in him, and he is really worth it.  And when people see this, when they are convinced that it really is and not just some pretense, shed, deception, then many of them decide that hey, that it really they want! Not all, but many. Our problem with “converting” other people to “faith” is exactly that of them we turn, that is, we try to do it, instead of being ourselves reason for them to turn on their own. We can’t help it the conversion of others until we ourselves are converted until we ourselves are moved into the new World of Christ, and we ourselves do not live a new identity and a new Life, which we found in there – and we are not so much the reason and motive of their own conversion.
“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye shut up the Kingdom of heaven in front of people! You do not enter it yourself, and you will not allow those who enter into it. “(Mt 23, 13)
Jesus pointed out the principle of the apostleship to himself and explained in one apt sentence: “I will come and take you to me that you also may be where I am. And the way, where I go, you know. […] I am the way … “(John 14: 3.6) And as Paul answered him, “Imitate me, even as I imitate Christ.” (1 Cor 11: 1) However, the condition of this type of apostleship is first our own relocation to the Kingdom and life in the Kingdom, as it was with Jesus: He said to them, “You are from below, I am from above. You are from this world; I am not of this world. “(John 8:23) And so, although we may desire activity and apostles before we begin, we must enter ourselves. Jesus set an example for us after His baptism took refuge in forty days in the wilderness. Or Paul, when after his conversion first spent two years in the desert in Arabia, before returning to Damascus and Jerusalem. But he didn’t do very well, so he took refuge again seclusion in Tarsus. It was not until he matured and entered the Kingdom fully that he returned as Paul, we know. “But when to God, who has already chosen me in the womb of his mother and by his grace he cried, and it seemed good to reveal his Son to me, that I might preach him among them, Gentiles, I have not consulted flesh and blood; neither have I gone to Jerusalem after those who were apostles before me, but I went to Arabia, and I am again returned to Damascus. “(Gal 1: 15-18)
“And it came to pass when many days were fulfilled, that the Jews knew that they should kill him learned. They guarded the gates day and night to kill him. Well, and his disciples took him by night and let him down through the wall in a basket. When he came to Jerusalem, trying to unite with the disciples, but they were all afraid of him because they did not believe that he is a disciple. And Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles, and he told them how he had seen the Lord on the way and that he had spoken to him, and how boldly you were in Damascus acted in Jesus’ name. And he lived with them in Jerusalem and was bold he acted for the Lord. He talked and argued with the Hellenist, and they attacked him they wanted to kill. When the brothers found out, they led him to Caesar ea and sent him to Caesarea Tarsus. And the Church had peace throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria … “(Acts 9: 23-31)
Spending time in the silence of prayer and adoration daily is not a waste of time, but a necessary condition for us to be able to do anything at all.” That is why I will export her, lead her into the desert, and speak to her heart. Then I will give her vineyards and valleys … “(Oz 2: 14-15)What is so difficult about accepting a new identity and a new life? It’s that simple is an! That’s enough to be. If you believe where the problem is? And there is no belief either complicated procedure or complex work. Even a small child can do it in three seconds! “Verily I say unto you; Whosoever shall not receive the Kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter into it. “(Lk 18:17) Don’t look at the Lord as “I would like to believe,” but simply as believers: Yes I’m here, and so I am, Lord. What are we going to do? What awaits us today? It is faith in essence, the lightest and simplest thing in the world!”So think ye also of yourselves: that ye are dead to sin, and alive unto God in Christ Jesus.” (Rom 6: 10-11) We don’t have to think about how to receive God’s gift when we have already received it and already have it! You are the Son (daughter) of God. So approach God as the Son of God (daughter)! Not as a person who would like to become one. You’re denying God’s Gift! How could you leave something that you just deny and reject?
“Salt is good. But if salt loses its salinity, with what will you season  it? Have salt in yourselves  and be accepting one  another… “(Mk 9, 50) The result is (also) adoration in which we sit with Christ as if second, as brethren, siblings, as two sons of the same God in this in the same way and in the same work and destiny and deep sharing we experience this its intense and intimate closeness and similarity. I am the Son of God. I live what I live. I do what I do. Not because “that’s the way it is.” Not because it somehow shows up. Not because I want to get someone or something gain. Because I am the Son of God.

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