It doesn’t matter where you go to church, or what bible studies you are in.  It doesn’t matter if you are wearing the latest “christian” fad, or proclaim your faith by action.   We can talk eschatology, theology,  and doctrine.   Really we can, but…Not sure any of that matters to much these days…

What matters is are you working as Christ Commanded us to work?

Ephesians 2:10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Works = ergon:  business, employment, that which any one is occupied

                    a) that which one undertakes to do, enterprise, undertaking

Christ is in the business of building the church, and by signing on as a disciple we have work to do also.

Matthew 28:18- 20 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

Christ employees his disciples to do as he did and make other disciples.   Our work becomes his work, and our work is the people that God put’s in our path everyday. Either by action or words, every person you encounter is an opportunity to work for Christ.  Every person is an opportunity to build into Christ the Church.

Spending two weeks at camp with 6th graders one week and 7th & 8th graders the next, and I sit here today missing the relationships I built with those kids.   I miss the work of building into them the Kingdom of God,  and His work to build the body of His Son the Church.

When  interacting with someone, with Christ as the goal, the relationship however brief takes on a deeper level of connection.  The person is able to see Christ through you.  If you let him, Christ will use you not only as part of the church, but as a worker also.

How are you working to build into Christ?