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Love By Connecting Series
Contributed by Steve Spaeth on Sep 10, 2016 (message contributor)
Summary: We need to serve each other by conecting
Began with a few pictures of fences, we all build fences
i Love My church
Loving by Connecting
, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body,
and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.
“Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.”
If we love our church the way God wants us to, then we have to…
1. Know that Jesus crashed the fence
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5:8
10:9-10
10:13
If we love our church the way God wants us to, then we have to…
1. Know that Jesus crashed the fence
2. Allow others into our yard ( showed a picture of Tim Allen's neighbor
If we love our church the way God wants us to, then we have to…
1. Know that Jesus crashed the fence
2. Allow others into our yard
3. Enjoy the company
Points of strategy:
1. Have healthy expectations
2. Realize baby steps are okay
3. Take some ownership
