Watchman Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement
9500 Annapolis Road Ste A5, Lanham MD 20706
240-764-6582, wccrm-usa.org
EASTER RETREAT 2015
Thursday 04-03-15 to Sunday 04-06-15
THEME: An Ideal Christian Community
Text: Matthew 5:13-16; Philippians 1:9-11; 1 Thessalonians 1:2-8; Revelation 3:7-11
INTRODUCTION:
Historically, the early Christian community was first nick-named “Christians” in Antioch because of the life of Christ that was found in them (Acts 11:25-26). Today, there are a lot of so-called Christian communities and if you interviewed spokespersons for these so-called Christian assemblies and asked them to for marks of Christian authenticity that might be associated with their respective congregations, you will truly marvel at how much they have strayed from the standard of the early Christians. Some will hastily point at their age, numerical strength and influence [not due to Godliness] as positive proof of their authentic Christian walk; others would appeal to their regular vision of “angels” and the manifestation of “spirits”; a third category would consider themselves ideal Christians because of some Bible truths they haphazardly believe and keep; a fourth category would point to the miracles they have recorded and thus conclude themselves to be the genuine Christians. Yet, if those in Antioch who were nick-named Christians then were around today to comment, they would have certainly black-listed very many of these communities for the things they lack which were undoubtedly present within the early Christian church or for the things present in them which had no place in the early Christian church.
It is because of such a situation that the Watchman Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement—because of the ministry it has received (Isaiah 49:5-6)—cannot afford to be anything other than An Ideal Christian Community. Let us now consider and draw useful lessons from a few essentials of an ideal Christian community that we have been raised and ordained to be.
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