Stem Cells the World Needs

In Matthew 8:18-22, the Holy Spirit has Matthew inject some discipleship teaching into miracle accounts. Why? as Frederick Dale Bruner put it, “To teach that faith in Jesus must be united with obedience. If healings were the only content here the church might get the impression that her main mission is to comfort, console and heal. While the Church of Christ is used by Him to comfort, she is to be more involved in proclaiming truth." We are to be about challenging and discipling. Relationships are the means to that end, not the goal. Therefore, we value loving one another with grace and truth.

Many churches think they exist to comfort – an error that has led to many to reject the Bible in favor of pop psychology and worldly wisdom, making some churches little more than glorified social clubs. The church is to be ‘the pillar and support of the truth’. Healing helps the body, making disciples helps the soul, spirit and body.
Bruner also said: “real disciples are the world’s healthiest reality and evil’s major antibodies. Real Christian people are the stem cells the world most needs.” Salt and light. He is not ignoring the physical, he is doing a teaching miracle, reaching past the body to the spirit and soul.

That idea of believers being the stem cells the world needs has really got me. God uses us to inject life into dead spots it the world. He uses us to make an eternal difference. Praise God from Whom all blessings flow.