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CrossFit is the new church
verses 11-15
Let’s play a quick game.
I am going to describe a place and let’s see if you can guess what this place is.
Here we go
Walking in everyone knows your name, and if not, they take the initiative to introduce themselves.
If you struggle there is no judging.
The environment is one of positivity and reinforcement.
As long as you are giving 100 percent, there will be an entire class of slightly insane and energetic coaches and teammates behind you the whole way.
What is this place?
I googled CrossFit environment and this is what I found.
I was reflecting on the church and what it is supposed to be, feel and look like.
As I thought about CrossFit, I realize why some people may have ditched the concept of church and replaced it with CrossFit.
Why?
CrossFit is a place where everyone knows your name, and if not, they take the initiative to introduce themselves.
If you struggle there is no judging and judging is replaced by encouragement.
The environment is one of positivity and reinforcement.
There is an entire class of slightly insane and energetic coaches and teammates behind you the whole way.
My ideal state of the church would reflect an environment much like CrossFit but better.
A place where everyone knows your name, and if not, they take the initiative to introduce themselves.
If you struggle they are there to encourage you and not leave you in the struggle.
Bridge of Faith welcomes those who struggle with open arms but we care enough not to leave you in your struggle.
The environment is that we encourage one another and only speak that which is beneficial for building each other up.
We are insanely in love with Jesus and love each other deeply.
John gives us some practical lessons here that we can live out to be like Jesus.
We continue in 1 John 3 this week with verse 11
(Pray)
The author continues to write and here we can see that he is writing to believers or those who know Jesus as their Lord and Savior.
He says this is the message YOU have heard and WE should love.
He again speaks of the message you have heard from the beginning as he did in
This message has not changed.
It is not some new age message but he says this is the message you have heard from the beginning and he says.
We should love one another.
Again the word for love used here is agape.
This word means to look out for the best interest of the other.
We should look out for the best interest of the others here in verse 11.
Imagine what an environment if we started to find ways to live for Jesus and in that we started to look out for the best interest of the others!
This would be ideal.
Rather than talking about the messes someone else leaves behind we clean up after them and then talk with them directly about what they did and how we might have helped them.
In our conversations, we looked out for the best interest of the other.
He then gives us an example of what this love is not.
I find this very interesting...
Let me quickly read the story of Cain and Abel in Genesis 4
John says unlike Cain.
He says don’t love one another like Cain treated Abel.
Cain murdered his brother but why did he murder him.
Cain’s works were evil and his brother’s were righteous.
Cain and other’s might feel the need to justify why Cain did what he did.
It might would have sounded like this.
“Well you know Abel was showing off and so he got what was coming to him” “This is unfair my gift to the Lord was just as nice as Abel’s and the Lord treated him better.
I took justice in to my own hands and killed Abel”
Cain was not looking our for the best interest of Abel he was being selfish and killed Abel because of the evil in his heart.
This happens so often when it comes to loving one another and looking our for the best interest of the others.
Their righteousness makes us jealous.
Crazy light hearted example would be a pastor going through the church potluck line.
All the ladies start to watch what their pastor is putting on his plate and if he chooses one dish over another then all the talk starts.
Well I bet he just done that because she watched his kids last week and on and on and on.
In this example, the ladies who the pastor did not eat their dish will not take responsibility for what they did wrong in their cooking they just work to tear down the person who may have done it right.
Then it all starts to spiral and everyone starts to hate on the one person who is doing things right rather than taking responsibility for their wrong.
After praising one kid have you ever noticed that some of the other kids start to tell you what they did wrong.
I have to make them look like me.
Church family this is not loving one another as he calls us to and I love how he expounds on what this love is not.
It is not hating on others in order to make you feel better.
People may not want to hang with you because all you want to do is gossip and tear others down and here you keep thinking they are all just a part of a click.
Take responsibility for the wrong you are doing rather than blame those who are living right.
Cain murdered evil because his works were evil and Abel’s were righteous.
This is a description of the World here and he says don’t be surprised if the world hates you.
I am convinced that often Christians never experience hate from the world because one of two reasons.
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They look so much like the world that the world can’t tell a difference and therefore they don’t hate them.
2.) Christian’s spend so much time in the light with other Christians and never go to dark places but in the dark places the world may hate you because you are a Christ follower.
If we love each other in the church and look out for the best interest of others then don’t be surprised if the world hates you for it.
Here is an indicator that you are living life in Christ is that you love your brothers.
You look out for the best interest of your brothers.
If you don’t love then you remain in death.
Being alive in Christ is not possible when you don’t have love or look out for the best interest of others.
Think back to the last time you was angry or frustrated.
I bet you felt really alive at that point.
When you get selfish, then you remain or abide in death and not life.
The word remain here again is to abide.
If you do not love you remain or abide in death.
Does this verse say that if you hate your brother that you are not saved?
In order to answer this question we have to dig deeper.
If we take this verse at surface level and say yes that is what it says, then everyone who has ever hated anyone is a murderer and has no eternal life.
David actually killed Uriah.
Peter cut off the ear of the soldiers who came to arrest Jesus.
I would say this was hate for those who came to arrest him.
I would say this would disqualify most all of us of ever having eternal life.
So John is saying that if you hate your brother then you are a murderer and if you are a murderer than the hope of Eternal life does not dwell in you.
This by no means is to justify your hate and say that it is ok.
John wants them to be set free from the hate in their hearts.
If you have hate, then you are dead and if you are dead then you don’t have the life of eternal life dwelling in you.
Your hate for others causes you to not have life.
You are a slave to the person you hate.
A life of Fellowship as the Forgiven is not full of hate.
Hate brings death and love brings life.
What does love look like?
Hate of the brother is death for the brother.
Love for the brother is love and death of ourself.
Agape love is giving your own interest for the best interest of the other.
The love we came to know is that Jesus died for us.
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