FOLLOWING CHRIST

II. FOLLOWING CHRIST

A. WITH CHRIST, AT THE SERVICE OF THE KINGDOM...

1. Our faith experience

Within the Church we have been initiated [9]
in the Good News of Jesus Christ:
"We have come to know and to believe
in the love God has for us" (1 John 4:16).

We have received the gift of faith,
which grounds our hope;
a faith which orders our life
and inspires us to leave all
to follow Christ;
in the midst of the challenges of the world
we have to strengthen this faith
through living it in charity.

With all our fellow Christians,
through the Spirit, we then confess
Christ as Lord,
in whom the Father made His love known to us,
and who remains present in our world
to save it.

"No one can say, `Jesus is Lord,'
except in the Holy Spirit" (1 Cor. 12:3).