A Ministry of Reconciliation, Healing, and Restoration
" God has reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation. So, we are ambassadors for Christ. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God." (2 Corinthians 5:18, 20)
WELCOME TO FAMILY TO FAMILIES MINISTRY!
THE FOUNDATION
The element that brings about reconciliation, healing, and restoration is Jesus Christ, our common Head, and his love and compassion as we allow it to be ministered through us. He is the only true Foundation on which we can be successfully established. Jesus alone is the center and foundation of what it means to be a Christian and a part of God's Family in the fullest sense. He alone shows us the Father and what it means to be and to live as a child of God, spiritually begotten of the Father through baptism and the holy Spirit. With the Father, Jesus sends the holy Spirit to bring to our minds all that he taught us and to empower us for his ministry through us to the world around us. We, the Church, are called to be and to be seen as the Ministering Body of Christ. It is because we have forgotten this central truth that the Body of Christ is so divided.
The key to the ministry of reconciliation, healing, and restoration of all
things in Christ is to be "Christ where we are." "Christ where we
are" means CHRist In Service To where we are. If we function
with this attitude and on this foundation, we will see more and more of
the Family of God coming together in unity as the sign of hope that the
world can believe and accept. The world needs to know that Jesus
is not an ism or a label or a denomination but is a Person who is alive
and active today in those who bear his Name and are Christened or
anointed with the same anointing of the holy Spirit as he was.
What a call! What a challenge! This won't happen overnight,
but it is happening. Old foundations are crumbling all around us.
God is laying a new and surer foundation in each of us who will let him.
The blood of our natural family flows through us and gives us the right
to reconciliation, healing, and restoration with the members of our own
family. Stronger than that is the Blood of Jesus Christ that flows
through all of us who have been reconciled to the Father and have become
his Family because Jesus shed his blood for us. It is this
Blood-relationship that makes us truly one in Christ. We do not
always agree with our natural family members, nor do they with us.
We do not always understand each other, though we must try to.
What is important is that we are family! This is more so with
God's Family. What the world needs to see is that, beneath all the
labels that Christians use to distinguish and sometimes isolate one
another, there is a Family, moving and ministering together in unity as
the Family of God, made one under God our Father, in Jesus our Brother,
and through the holy Spirit, the Bond of Love, Power, and Unity who
holds us all together.
Jesus began his life and ministry in and through a
family. May we work together to become the Family of God that he
came to establish.
CONTENTS
Preparing People To Fulfill Christ's Vision
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We are Patrick and Penny Hession, Bondservants of Jesus Christ
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We are a Patrick and Penny Hession, son
and
daughter of God by adoption.
By his grace,
we
have been called, discipled, and sent by our Father
to reconcile people
to Him and to one another
through
Jesus Christ
and in the Holy Spirit.
We have
been given a mandate to call
individuals,
families,
and
communities
into
God's order and to establish
them in
God's
order.
Our resources are directed toward the
fulfillment
of that mandate.
We are
in service to all
God's people.
Preparing People To Fulfill Christ's Vision
Family To Families Ministry |
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