It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts – 2 Corinthians 3:3

The church in Corinth was led by the apostle Paul. He spent a significant amount of time there, teaching and spreading the message of Jesus. Like any other ministry, the Corinthian church faced various challenges, including divisions and moral issues. Paul wrote two letters to them, known as 1 Corinthians and 2 Corinthians, addressing these concerns and providing guidance.

We see in our verse for today, how Paul believes they do not need letters from Him to reach other people around them and in other parts of the early world, instead, he tells them that if their lives reflect Christ many will be drawn to the church and to God. This was an admonishing from Paul to urge them be better and an admission that they are no longer babies in the faith, who need milk, as Peter would put it.

Many of us today forget the true mandate Christ bestowed on us, and have paid less attention to the verse, “Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.” – John 4:23. True worship does not only involve going to church, singing and praising God or how much you give as offering. The truest form of worship is allowing oneself to be wholly transformed by the Holy Spirit and being a direct reflection of Christ.

True worshippers who worship in truth and in Spirit are those who rely on the Holy Spirit entirely, not on doctrines or letters, as Paul put it. Today, the Apostle is charging us to challenge ourselves in prayer, in action and in word. He is calling on us to be wholly engulfed by the Holy Spirit so we can be a true reflection of Christ – only by that can we draw souls unto God and unto our churches. This is the word of God, Amen.