Toward Love and Good Deeds

 We feel honored that God has allowed us to participate in the spread of the Gospel in the villages, and it continues to amaze us. 

Today, we visited two of our five teaching points to observe and participate in Bible studies. We were not there to lead this time, but to encourage the believers.  

After a song and a prayer, one gentleman read a Scripture and spoke for a few minutes, then we asked if anyone else had something to share from the Bible that would encourage others.

It was exciting to watch as several men and women stood one by one to read God's Word and to tell what God is showing them from it. Each Bible reading and teaching was only about 5-7 minutes long, but very rich in truth.  After each one had an opportunity to share, it was evident that all the scripture readings wove together beautifully to make one message.

Hebrews 10:24-25

And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another---and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

Hebrews 13:1-2

Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters. 2. Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.

John 3:16 

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Matthew 25:31-36

“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. “Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,  I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.'