"Do not set your heart on what you are to eat and drink; stop worrying! Let all the nations of the world run after these things; your FATHER knows that you need them. Seek, rather, HIS kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well.
Do not be afraid, little flock, for it has pleased your FATHER to give you the kingdom." - Luke 12:29-32
(Do not be afraid little flock. Nowhere in the Gospel does JESUS lead us to believe that with time most people will be converted.
We know that the non-Christian world is numerically much more important than the "Christian" world and it grows more rapidly. When large numbers in the "Christian" world give up the practice of religion, we understand that the Church is both a sign and a little flock.
JESUS asks each one of us to be detached from earthly things and HE also asks the same of the flock. What matters for the church is not the building of powerful institutions nor the holding of key posts in society "for the greater glory of GOD." A Church which awaits the return of the Master is careful to be ready to pack their bags, wherever it may be, when the LORD will send them out and ask them to become missionary again.
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