The Word of God is merely words to you and me until we study, pray, listen, ponder and nurture the words, putting the Word into our own words, utilizing and applying them in our daily living.
God’s purpose is that we incarnate the Word, re-habit ourselves into a life that expresses the attitudes, thoughts, concepts of the Word in our daily living.
Then, that we share the Word by example and model to others, so by contagion, teaching and training we initiate small communities of renewal groups that support each other in abiding in the love of Christ and letting God bring forth, step by step, this manifested Purpose and Power lived out in communities of New Jerusalem.
To alone have a goal for a great CFO international organism is not sufficient for God’s Purposes. God wants changed lives, clearer visions, deeper commitments to living lives of love. God’s intent for us is a vital assurance that we are an infused part of the Body of Christ, linked together, welded in oneness. In willing obedience to God, we abandon ourselves to follow the example of Jesus’ love all the way, into a unity and oneness in God and a new awareness.
The road map says, “Feed the hungry, alleviate poverty, suffering and pain, not as a goal in itself, but as a most important intent of God to lead us to God’s Self and into full compassion and justice. Jesus said to Peter three times, “If you love Me, feed My sheep, feed My sheep, feed My lambs.”
This is our commission: to love as Jesus loved.
-Del Anderson, Spring 2005
