A pinion is a small cogwheel that engages with a larger cogwheel. What matters first is the spiritual health of each small cogwheel.
Churches as pinions with God-directed root systems become the teaching and refreshment places on the community map, whereupon becoming filled and skilled, its committed attenders begin to move through the population with love-filled work and outreach. We are known by the fruit of our heart that the Spirit has worked out within each of us individually--we extend love, our joy and peace. We are forbearing with each other, always moving with kindness, benevolence, faithfulness, humility, and self-restraint.
The commitment to wait on the Power of the Holy Spirit brings that which we cannot attain on our own. Paul writes in Galatians 5:
When you attempt to live by your own religious plans and projects, you are cut off from Christ, you fall out of grace. Meanwhile we expectantly wait for a satisfying relationship with the Spirit. For in Christ, neither our most conscientious religion nor disregard for religion amounts to anything. What matters is something far more interior: faith expressed in love...it is absolutely clear that God has called you to a free life...use your freedom to serve one another in love.Our little cogwheels of worship, when empowered by the Holy Spirit, will join with others to produce ever greater Power. The machinery of the Spirit begins to touch hearts of people who are disenfranchised, discouraged, and in despair. At the Spirit's invitation, the lost begin to rally and awaken to love expressed by the outreach of these churches.
Tomorrow: our prayer for an Acts 2 community.
