Rethink Love Rethink Church

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August 22 - September 26 

Christian Discipleship

If we are to follow Jesus and love those whom he loves as he loves them, we need to learn and practice some basic disciplines: prayer, worship, the Lord's Supper, reading and studying the Bible, participating in small groups for mutual accountability and support, fasting or abstinence, feeding the hungry and thirsty, welcoming the stranger, clothing those who have no clothes, caring for the sick, and visiting the prisoners. John Wesley called these basic practices works of piety and works of mercy. He understood that attending to these "means of grace" is "faith working by love" (Galatians 5:6). They are how Christians "work out their salvation" (Philippians 2:12-13).

These basic practices of faith are called "means of grace" because they are gifts given by God through which the Holy Spirit works in disciples to heal and form their character into the character of Christ. They are how disciples live into "having the mind of Christ" (Philippians 2:5).

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