The Mending Ministry is More than Fixing a Hole; it Makes us Suitable for God’s Building January 21, 2014 by aGodMan · Leave a Comment The Mending Ministry is More than Fixing a Hole; it Makes us Suitable for Gods Building. See 2 Cor 13:9, for we rejoice whenever we are weak and you are powerful, this we also pray for, your perfecting photo credit: Google+ – 2 Cor. 13:9, For we rejoice whenever we are weak and you are powerful; this we also pray for, your perfecting. There’s a certain correlation between the occupation of those called by the Lord Jesus to follow Him and their future ministry in the Lord. When the Lord Jesus called Peter and Andrew, they were casting the net into the sea to catch fish (Matt. 4:18-20); Peter’s ministry was to catch men alive, to be a fisher of men – and so he did, at the Pentecost, he “hauled in” a large batch of “Jewish fish”, then in the house of Cornelius, he again brought in many “Gentile fish”. When the Lord called John, him and his brother James were mending their nets (Matt. 4:21). John’s ministry was later in life to mend the net of the church. But this mending of the net / mending of the church doesn’t mean merely “repairing a tear” but restoring, fixing, equipping, perfecting, completing, and framing together. It is a work that restores people, fixes them, equips them, perfects them, completes them, and frames them together for God’s building. John’s ministry of mending was that, after the materials were brought in by the likes of Peter (fishermen, evangelists), he would mend them, perfect them, add to them, complete them, make them suitable, and attune them so that these materials (the brothers and sisters in the Lord) would be built up together in God’s building (see 1 Cor. 1:10; 2 Cor. 13:9; Gal. 6:1; 1 Thes. 3:10). God doesn’t desire merely a “pile of materials for His building” brought in by those who preach the gospel – He wants a built up Body where all the materials are edified, mended, perfected, equipped, and attuned. We need some saints who have experienced Christ’s inward mending and who can also mend us to make us buildable members of the Body of Christ.
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