1. The family

Christians want to convert. They want to find every means to stay with God. They want his Love to take root in them, so that their faith improves.

They recognize that God’s Word is important. The Word is like water turning seed into a root, then the root into a shoot, the shoot into a tree, then the tree bears fruit and gives back to humans and to the earth.

To let ourselves be profoundly transformed by the Word allows us to act as christians.

Paul confirms it by this inspiration:
“But what does it say? ‘The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart’ (that is, the word of faith that we preach).” Romans, chapter 10, verse 8

God lays down his Word in us. It helps us to believe more in Christ and to work with him. Jesus offers everything from his heart. He who receives it thus becomes an abundant source that transmits Love from heart to heart.

One of the purposes of the christian family is to break the chains by and with the Word of God. We are invited to avoid chains by not letting ourselves be captured by them. Then we are called to become people from whom flows a source of peace, with respect and charity, inspired by the Word, so that others are released from their chains.

The new American Bible, 2011-2014
Book: The Shepherd’s Mission, Normand Thomas