Pastor Jacob Warren teaches from Matthew 6:25-34. The invitation of Jesus to those who are anxious is to trust God as their heavenly father.
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9. A Missional Community
For the last week of gospel centered community we are putting what we have learned into practice by necessity. Due to recommendations by our governor we cannot meet in groups more than 100 so we are gathering in small groups to worship together through word and song. This week Ryan teaches that in order to carry out the mission of Jesus we must be a friend of sinners.
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8. A Grace-Filled Community
Guest pastor Mike Boarts, is continuing our series in "A Gospel Centered Community". The main idea is that God's grace empowers us to live in grace ourselves and give grace to others.
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7. An Honest Community
Real community happens when we walk in God’s light by confessing and repenting of sin to one another. Walking in the light is the way to gospel community and to gospel freedom.
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6. A Humble Community
We should humble ourselves for each other and look to the interest of others, because God has humbled himself for us. We humble ourselves by looking to the humility of Jesus and looking to the exaltation of Jesus.
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5. A Joyful Community
The more we live into the reality of Christ's blessing, the more we will embrace a community that is marked with joy in Jesus. Romans 5 shows us that God has reconciled himself so that we can find our highest joys and deeper pleasures by knowing him.
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4. Faith Working Through Love
We are called to love one another in deed and truth. We will never accomplish this how God intends, unless we understand how faith and the work of Christ provides the foundation and motivation for us to love others. Through Jesus, we have received acceptance, forgiveness, adoption and love from God that nothing can separate us from. When we receive God's grace, this is when we are able to love others as God loves us.
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3. How the Gospel Shapes Us In Community
The gospel creates community by transforming us to begin treating others in the way that Jesus has treated us. Because of what Jesus has done, we have been given a new identity. Our life has now been hidden in Christ, so that whatever is true of him is now true of us. His life is counted as our life and his death is counted as our death. All that is his has become ours. We need to put to death what remains of our old life. In Colossians 3:12-17, Paul tells us to put on Jesus and his character and to put on Jesus and his gospel.
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2. How Community Shapes Us in the Gospel
Community that is produced by the gospel is devoted to God’s word, life together, the Lord’s Supper and prayer. This gospel centered community shapes us deeper in the gospel, develops radical generosity and will display Jesus together.
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1. Created for Community
We have been created for community, but we have also been re-created for community. Jesus died on a cross to bring us together to make a family. He restores and reconciles us not only to God, but also to each other. This is why community centered on the Gospel matters.
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Introduction To The Gospel Centered Community
This week, speaker Ryan Ross introduces our 10 week series based off of “The Gospel Centered Community”. 1 John 4:7-12 tells us of God’s love and makes 3 distinct points. We should love one another because God is love. We are free to love others because he loved us first. Finally, loving one another shows off God’s redeeming love to the world.
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Vision 2020: Dependence and Obedience
It has become tradition to end the year as one big family. 2019 was no different. We came together, kids and adults, to be reminded of the fact that we’re called to serve others as followers of Jesus, but before we do, we remember all that Jesus has done for us. Out of that overflow of love, we love and serve others. Jesus gave us a reminder of that love when he instituted communion. Sometimes, we simply need to be reminded when we forget.
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Family Gathering 2019
It has become tradition to end the year as one big family. 2019 was no different. We came together, kids and adults, to be reminded of the fact that we’re called to serve others as followers of Jesus, but before we do, we remember all that Jesus has done for us. Out of that overflow of love, we love and serve others. Jesus gave us a reminder of that love when he instituted communion. Sometimes, we simply need to be reminded when we forget.
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2. The Promise of the Prophets
Jesus is the promised Messiah who fulfills all the promises of the prophets. Matthew highlights that Jesus’ genealogy is filled with sinners. Jesus is not ashamed of us, so much that He took on all of our sins in order to adopt us as sons and daughters. He is the King who rules over his people with love, grace and forgiveness. He will invite anyone into his family who will repent and trust in him.
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1. The Promise of the Covenant
In this text, God meets our doubts with a promise, a picture and a person. God made a covenant with Abraham knowing that Abraham could not uphold any part of it. He believed the Lord and God counted it to him as righteousness. Our salvation is secured because Jesus Christ, God’s son, walked the path for us. He is devoted to us and pursues us. He is faithful when we are not.
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The Triumph of Christ
In the cross of Jesus Christ, God has paid the debt in full for our sins so that he could forgive us all of them. He has silenced the voice of the accuser so that guilt and shame would not rule over us any longer. The gospel sets us free.
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The Supremacy of Christ
The God of the universe stepped out of heaven to seek us out and to do for us what we could never do for ourselves. Jesus should have first place in every area of our lives because of who He is and what He has done.
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22. Humble Yourself, Exalted by God
As our series in 1 Peter comes to an end, guest speaker Ryan Ross walks us through what true Gospel humility looks like. We need to pray for humility and that we can meet others needs above our own. We need to remain firm in our faith. Suffering is everywhere, but our suffering is brief. Our God of Grace will restore us in eternal glory with him.
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21. Shepherd the Flock of God
Guest speaker, Ryan Ross, continues our series in 1 Peter, speaking on the calling of Eldership. Being called to Eldership means shepherding God’s flock willingly and not for personal gain. It means living as examples to the flock. In the same sense, the church is to be subject to the elders in humility towards one another. Peter writes, “God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
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20. Expect Suffering
As followers of Jesus it is sometimes assumed that things on the whole will go well for us. Contrary to this, Peter writes “do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice insofar as you share Christ’s sufferings” (1 Peter 4:7). Guest speaker, Ryan Ross, continues our series in 1 Peter by asking the questions: How do we come to terms with the fact that suffering is on the way? How do we cling to Jesus in the midst of suffering? And, how in the world do you rejoice in your sufferings?
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