Our macro journey is the eternal and wise God being glorified through Jesus as he brings about beautiful and pleasing fruit of obedience flowing from faith among people of all the ethnic groups of the earth. God does this by sending us and strengthening us through the gospel we believe and bring to the world.

In a rare inside peak into the culture of local church ministry and communication between churches we see the impressive dedication, mutual respect and use of both men and women in the advancement of the gospel through local churches.

Jesus is making an overt-the-top joyful and singing multi-cultural family. God has openly promised all along, from Abraham through the Prophets, to make a family out of people from all cultures of the world. And He wants us to embrace this and approach one another with this hope and expectation.

We welcome each other because God has welcomed us and them and his pleasure … his design for us is to seek the true pleasure of each of his children he places in our lives and that we together, with one, well scripturally-fueled mind, joyfully proclain continually that God is truly astounding.

God’s call for our focus is not on what we are privileged-to in this life, but rather our Father and his beloved family’s welfare and building up. If we keep that clear, then our pathway in front of us is rather simple and clear. How do I handle this brother/ sister? Seek the Spirit’s leading on how to love and build them up in authentically following Christ.

Christ calls his followers to be keen in their thought and perspective, choosing to capitalize on our short earthly lives, adopting the mind and character of Christ and watchfully cutting off our pathways to sin and failure.

Christ calls his followers to be keen in their thought and perspective, choosing to capitalize on our short earthly lives, adopting the mind and character of Christ and watchfully cutting off our pathways to sin and failure.

The Father has graciously provided earthly governments as protection and provision for the people of earth. Out of this conviction we follow and support earthly governments, then shift our efforts and focus on loving the lives God has placed around us.

It is our honor and joy to present ourselves as living offerings (offering) given to God as we live among His people in the Church and the world which will mistreat us.

The life set apart for the pleasure of God will be marked with intentional and earnest following of Christ’s example left for us.

God is beyond us but draws close in chapters 9-11 to show us that He is completely faithful to his promises, how he is in complete control and that his saving work of all types of mankind is the same. He is pulling us out of and forgiving us of our human rebellion against Him only through his grace and mercy provided through Jesus.

God has brought salvation to the Gentiles through the Jewish season of unbelief. Whenever God makes a corporate people, each person within it must come to saving faith himself/ herself and perseveres until the end. This is how God preserves His Children.

God’s relationship with all of humanity always has been and will be through His continued extension of a promise message which is then accepted by faith in those who are willing. It was never earned and the promise message was never absent. Ever since the resurrection of Jesus, his life, death and resurrection are the central and fulfilling piece of that promise message that all must hear and believe in order to be saved.