All too often, gossip, silence, and exclusion serve just these purposes, cutting off the prophetic from the congregation.  This is what the Apostles were doing to this one man "caught healing."  They were demanding that Jesus hobble his powerful works because he wasn't one of them.

We can stop our pettiness by taking four actions:

1. Get out in the harvest.

Recognize the crisis in harvesters and the ripeness of the harvest.  If you don't bring the harvest in during its due season, it will not just sit out there and stay ripe.  This is the harvest time and we need laborers.  Let's be one and pray for more!…