Committed Christians

“Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all turned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshipers [meeting] together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be, were they to become ‘unity’ conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship” SOURCE: A.W. Tozer in "The Pursuit of God."

When we are truly devoted to the cause of Christ, we are closer than we could ever be if we were to design programs and church functions that were aimed at unity. Fellowship is like a football team consisting of players that really don’t like each other, but because they allow the common cause of winning to be their goal, they look to be as one. When we work together to promote Christ, then we are devoted to the fellowship.

A Bible following church has the makeup, of a growing vibrant church and they are in turn devoted to the breaking of bread, remembering the sacrifice of Jesus, they are devoted to the teachings of the Apostles, following the direction and advice of the Bible, they are devoted, committed to fellowship, having one common goal and working together and they are committed to prayer:

I feel that a church that truly prays together stays together. Prayer is the greatest example of drawing from God’s unlimited power, and that example is continually given in the Bible. Our Lord not only prayed as an example of what we should do, He also told us how to pray.

Now prayer is asking God for the things we need; protection, good health, peace in the midst of chaos, but I don’t think some people understand what prayer should truly be about. A fifth grade boy who had heard a sermon on persistence in prayer was praying by himself in his room one night. As his dad passed his door, he heard the boy praying over and over again, "Tokyo, Tokyo, Tokyo." The next day, the dad asked his son what we was doing. The boy replied that he had given the wrong answer on a test for the capital of Mexico, and he was praying that God would make Tokyo the capital of Mexico.

Jesus taught us first to acknowledge our God, ‘Father, your name is Holy and your kingdom will come’ the KJV actually says that Jesus taught us not only to acknowledge that God’s name is Holy, but we should allow our selves to understand that prayer is about God’s will being done. When we pray, we acknowledge that our Holy and perfect God knows what is best for us and that even though we are asking for certain things, EVERYTHING is done according to HIS will. We need to be careful to ask God for those things we need according to HIS will, because God already knows what we need. The next line tells us this, ‘Father give us each day our daily bread’ or in other words give us Father what we need to survive and carry on your business. Then Jesus tells us about praying for forgiveness as we forgive others. Forgiveness is something of importance and making a commitment to prayer should be a daily reminder of how much forgiveness we need and how we should forgive others as well. And then Jesus ends this teaching by saying, pray that God protect us all from temptation. ALL these things are seen in the Gospel of Luke, chapter 11: