We’re not the beautiful people – we’re the messed-up ex-addicts and ex-drunkards who have been touched by God's grace.
“The Most Excellent Way” is a part of the Church that acts like a hospital — the hospital of Christ. It’s the place where hurting and infirmed people can come and receive a touch from Jesus and be healed and made whole by the Holy Spirit. We welcome the walking wounded who are looking for hope. Jesus spent most of His ministry mending people. He’s the same today — He’s still putting together shattered lives the way He wants them to be.
Accepting that “The Most Excellent Way” is also a ministry of “mending” helps us to recognize the process of sanctification (change) we are experiencing day by day. We eagerly love, accept and forgive new Believers as they begin applying Biblical principles to their new identity as saints, children of God and disciples of Christ. We're are not attempt-ing to “recover” anything from our old lives — we're learning to live our new lives in Christ. We encourage one another because:
“Now the Lord is the Spirit;
and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
We all, with unveiled face,
beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord,
are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory,
just as by the Spirit of the Lord.“
2 Corinthians 3:17-18 NKJV
What image? His image! The Holy Spirit is transforming us into the image of our Lord!
“There is therefore now no condemnation to those
who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh,
but according to the Spirit.“
Romans 8:1 NKJV
