“Start asking,” I am reading today on a poster on my walk in our town (Kaitaia).
Another poster says, “Ask in store for details.” At the same place a second poster says, “Ask us for more information”.
“Give the Gift of Travel with a flight Centre Gift Card.” “Ask in store for more details.” Ask us about these & more amazing Samoa deals,” advertises the local Flight Centre. And here is one more poster: “Ask about our easy payment finance options.”
Banks, where you buy tyres, Flight Centres, etc., encouraging us to ask.
The BIBLE encourages us also to ask.
In Matthew 7:7 the Lord Jesus Christ says, “‘ASK and it will be given you.'” And in James 4:2 James writes, “You do not have, because you do not ASK God.”
“We have dedicated staff who concentrate exclusively on helping you switch banks painlessly,” says the ASB leaflet, I picked up not long ago. The leaflet is called “Success is trying out a new bank – without trying all their fees.”
And I can only say that I am very attentive. Why?
In my reading of the BIBLE – I started at the beginning of the year with the first book called GENESIS – I arrived at ACTS in the New Testament, and there it says 4 things about the early believers. They dedicated themselves to 4 things: (Acts 2:42)
1. The apostles’ doctrine:
We find 13 letters of the apostle Paul in the New Testament and 2 of the apostle Peter.
2. Fellowship with other believers:
There is secular fellowship and there is Christian fellowship. Christian fellowship is much deeper.
Here are seven things that believers have in common:
a. all born of the same father (John 1:13);
b. bought with the same price (First Corinthian 6:20);
c. members of the same Body (Colossians 1:18);
d. taught by the same Spirit (John 16:13)
e. walking in the same path (Second Corinthians 5:7);
f. serving the same Master (Matthew 23:8);
g. heirs of the same inheritance (Romans 8:17)
3. The breaking of bread:
Who may partake of Holy Communion?
Only those who belong to the family of God. We must be born into the family of God.
4. Prayer:
What is prayer?
“Prayer is worship addressed to the Father, in the name of Christ, and the power of the Holy Spirit.” – Dr. H. W. Frost
The ASB bank has dedicated staff who concentrate exclusively on helping people switch banks painlessly.
I am asking:
“Do we have devoted (dedicated) believers at the present time who concentrate on the apostle’s teaching, the fellowship, the breaking of bread and prayer?
