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"Clearing the way for the Almighty" - Divine Service from Community 2017 Edition 2
As it is written in the Prophets: Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, who will prepare Your way before You. The voice of one crying in the wilderness: “Prepare the way of the Lord; make His paths straight.” (Mark 1:2-3)
“There is only one thing that can hinder God from saving us.” This is what Chief Apostle Jean-Luc Schneider made clear in a divine service in South Africa. “He will not save us against our own will. That is the key. God wants to save us, but we have to pave the way for Him.” The Chief Apostle listed five ways we can prepare the way for God.
Step one: fighting against sin
Most importantly: “We have to want to renounce sin and overcome evil.” That is the principle for both Holy Baptism and forgiveness of sins. Decisive is that we do not agree to any kind of compromise when it comes to sin. “Let us renounce sin—all sins, not only the big visible ones, but every sin.”
Step two: sanctifying ourselves for divine service
The Lord wants to meet us in divine service. It is up to us to prepare the way for Him, to clear out our hearts, and set the right priorities: “You know my concerns and needs, my wishes. But You know that the most important thing for me is to enter into Your kingdom.” To sanctify ourselves for divine service, the following inner attitude is required: “God, help me to recognize You in the sinner, the imperfect servant You have sent.”
Step three: gathering in the name of Jesus
To be able to experience the presence of Jesus Christ in divine service we have to gather in His name, the Chief Apostle continued. “We have to be aware: I am together with my brother and sister in faith now, the members of my congregation. They are so important to Jesus that He died for them. Therefore I cannot just think of them as sinners and strange people.” That also means that we have to clear up any differences there may be between us. God will not do this for us. He expects us to solve our problems together and reconcile. That is our task.
Step four: taking our bearings from the Gospel
God also wants to save our neighbor. Here too the faithful are called to pave the way for God. Let us conduct ourselves in a manner worthy of the Gospel. Neither New Apostolic Christians are perfect nor is the Church. And it is precisely because of this that we want to do God’s work by forgiving one another, loving one another, and overcoming our differences.
Step five: committing ourselves to the congregation
And, finally, there are very practical ways of clearing the way for the Lord. “Here we are talking about our offerings and helping along in the congregation,” the Chief Apostle said and referred to concrete requests from Jesus to His disciples, such as preparing a place for their Passover celebration.