The Cure for Isolation/ Loneliness
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Introduction:
Go morning church.
A “MAD” cartoon (Sept. 1977) shows a young lady saying, “Hey, Vivian! Let’s go to lunch!”
“Not today! I brought a snack. Then I have some work to catch up on.”
The first young lady says then, “Hey, Nancy! Sylvia! How about some lunch?”
“We can’t! We’re both on the `Skip-a-Meal’ diet!”
Sitting in a vast, crowded restaurant, she is thinking, “Gee . . . I hate eating alone!”
Pastor Joel C. Gregory tells the story of how he visited a student café in central Oxford, UK. At the cash register, a box of clamshells rested with a sign inviting customers to take a clamshell to their tables if they wished to talk with a stranger while eating. Gregory describes how he contemplated this box of clamshells while he ate. The café, he says, sits in the middle of 10,000 of the smartest young adults in the world. Why, he wondered, would such people need to take a clamshell to a café table to bid lunchtime conversation? He wondered, should I take a shell? What if I take a shell and nobody comes to talk with me? Then he thought, what if this shell game was a brilliant idea for encouraging connectedness? What if this became a universal custom? What if this simple act to end loneliness was the start of something profound?
Taken from the book, Sermon Crunch... p. 27
Promise 1 God is at Work
Promise 1 God is at Work
Promise 1 God is at Work
Promise 1 God is at Work
with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth. In Him
Promise 2 You have an Inheritance
Promise 2 You have an Inheritance
also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will,
Promise 3 Rest in Your Present Hope
Promise 3 Rest in Your Present Hope
Ephe 1:13
In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise,
He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything.
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