Participation

par·tic·i·pa·tion

par·tic·i·pa·tion (pär-tîs´e-pâ¹shen) noun
The act of taking part or sharing in something: Teachers often encourage class participation.
— par·tic´i·pa¹tion·al adjective[1]


What is it that we are taking part in, what is it that we are sharing? To take part in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. To share in the Gospel of our Lord and Savior. To be a part of the body of Christ. To Participate means the act of taking part. It requires action on the part of each member sharing in the act. This is not a static or passive existence, but rather a moving, active, living organism, breathing and streaming with life and vitality.

We are commanded to “go” into all the world, that includes not just the far away places filled with lost souls speaking another language, but it also includes our local neighborhood, the people that live right on our own block, the couple next door, who are lost as well.

Each member of the Body of Christ is filled with the Holy Spirit of God who empowers each of us to be His witnesses. Bridging church to neighborhood, not mearly a certain denomination, or local church by name, but the church of Jesus Christ, which means bridging ourselves into the neighborhood, being the pathway which lost souls might be able to cross over from a life of sin and death into a life of light and love.

This is our participation

The question which continues to assurt itself within me is; during the course of life we all must stand up for the moral convictions instilled within by the Spirit, and in such, we come in inflict with some of those souls, and in doing so how then do we bridge the love of God toward them?



If I must participate, not only by revealing the gospel, in word and deed, yet stand firm to the convictions God has placed within me, then the task is not mine, but rather his.