Christ calls Christians to a Living Faith

In the book "Is Your Church Heavenly? A Question from Christ for Every Christian", Jesus Christ reveals that His Church needs to always demonstrate a living faith. Jesus shows us how He can provide both resurrection and living faith when a man named Lazarus became sick. At the time Jesus heard of it, He said, "The final result of this sickness will not be the death of Lazarus; this has happened in order to bring glory to God, and it will be the means by which the Son of God will receive Glory." Jesus said this and then added, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I will go and wake him up." The disciples answered, "If he is asleep, Lord, he will get well." Jesus then told them plainly, "Lazarus is dead." Jesus and the disciples then traveled to Lazarus' home in Bethany where they found that he had been buried four days. After their arrival, Lazarus' sister Martha said to Jesus, "If you had been here, Lord, my brother would not have died! But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask him for." "Your brother will rise to life," Jesus told her. "I know," she replied, "that he will rise to life on the last day." Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die." Jesus went to Lazarus' tomb, which was a cave with a stone placed at the entrance. "Take the stone away!" Jesus ordered. Jesus looked up and said, "I thank you, Father, that you listen to me. I know that you always listen to me, but I say this for the sake of the people here, so that they will believe that you sent me." After he said this, he called out in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!" He came out, his hands and feet wrapped in grave cloths. "Unite him," Jesus told them, "and let him go." (John 11:1-44) From this Biblical account of death, faith, and resurrection, we come to believe in the life giving power that the Son of God breathes into every Christian and into every Christian Church. Jesus Christ reminds every Christian that in His Church we hear solely and entirely of God. In His Church we praise God, worship God, sing to God, thank God, confess to God, give ourselves up to God, and ask God's blessings. In His Church, we gather together with God the Father, Christ the Son, the Holy Spirit, and the priesthood of those who believe in Jesus Christ. And in His Holy Congregation, we realize that His Church is like heaven...because both in heaven and in Christ's Church we focus our entire being on worshipping God. "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches" (Rev. 3:6). Christ's Church needs to always demonstrate a living faith.