Reflection 7

What does social action do in our Church?       Go and make disciples the great commission that God want us to do. Maybe, social action can be part of the ministry in the church but, there are advantages and disadvantages of this. Advantages is that we can be able to help others, we can build relationship with them and we can also share the gospel but, the disadvantage of this is that people may think that we are using social action to get their attention to join our religion. The church should always think that all of these things is not about joining a religion. But to personally follow the Lord Jesus Christ. I admit that social action can attract people. And the role of the church for this is that, we need to present the gospel boldly and clearly that we are not doing this for the sake of the religion but to share the blessing that God has entrusted to us, to share the word of God that they may know Christ more and to follow Christ.   They must need to know that salvation is not about good works. it is by grace through faith in Christ. The church should disciples,preach, teach and Church should serve and love people not just inside the church but outside the church. So that, people outside will see that we are truly a follower of Christ.   I remember one of our professor here in BTC told us that we should have a ministry which is told in the bible. Personally, I agree to that because God never sees how you are good at this but He sees the heart that you love doing what He entrusted to us. So, social action may part of our ministry but we should always know that everything we do is inline in God's will.