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Theme: Commitment, Consecration and Vision Bearer

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The Breach - September 9, 2017

After my conversion to Jesus Christ, I visited many assemblies and God called me towards the Church in a special and gradual way. Here is a list of words that represents a part of what I felt, lived and seen in the people I met:

bitterness, loneliness, despair, disillusionment, sadness, selfishness, anger, powerlessness, incomprehension, impatience, exhaustion, heaviness, stubbornness

Now here is another list that completes the first one and on which I choose to keep my eyes on and seek in the Church in agreement with the Word of God:

hope, love, joy, peace, compassion, caring, prayer, consolation, strength, comprehension, rest, patience, self-abandonment, lightness

I love the Church and I love God, it's the reason I go to Church. I desire to know her, meet her and understand her. Yet, I am in constant battle with what I find in myself and in the Church. I often have the desire to give-up everything and say to God: ''Here I am, but do not send me to them, they do not hear when I speak, they don't see your wonders, they do not speak of You truly.'' My heart is constantly trampled by the Church. Do you hear my heart suffering for the Church? Personal and family ambition took the place of God in the Church, worries of this age chokes the message that grew so well. Are we good soil for the Gospel?

By: Benjamin Bellemare