The Rise of the Gen-Next!

WORD 2day: Monday, 3rd week after Easter

April 24, 2023: Acts 6: 8-15; John 6: 22-29

The Word this week, begins to present to us the first generation believers after the Apostles! Apart from the apostles who were with Jesus, there were ardent disciples for Christ and the true people of the Way that Jesus preached. They began to imitate Jesus to the detail: an excellent example is Stephen, whose face shone like the Angel!

Jesus gives us the reason his face shone so: because he believed in the One who was sent! We too believe... yes! To what extent? Can we say, "upto death"? What does believing mean in practical terms: to follow what the Lord said and live what the Lord lived! Do we live after the example of the Lord? Do we carry out the Lord's teaching to the details? Or are we clamouring after miracles and running after signs? Are we working for merely material well being or are we concerned about our own spiritual maturity? 

This generation can be terms the Gen-Next to Christ... with the Apostles belonging to the generation of Christ, and the generation that followed which we refer to as Gen-Next! Looking at the Gen-Next of Christ... should we not take to our heart to be truly Christ-ians in our thought, word and deed? We are called to be the Gen-Next today! 

The characteristics of this gen would be - consciousness of our call to be followers of Christ, to take forward the common mission that marks the call received, to go out of our way to be faithful fighting every temptation towards compromises! Gen-Next are not a generation of believers depending on a particular time, but a generation of a particular mindset - a mindset of total dedication!