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Let’s take a walk:
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•Entice: Which is more expensive…a wedding or a marriage?
When you consider everything; time, talent, and treasure-of course it is a marriage.
It takes not only a
•Entice: Which is more expensive…a wedding or a marriage?
When you consider everything; time, talent, and treasure-of course it is a marriage.
It takes not only a few start up dollars but everything you have for all time.
Because of what we invest in that relationship we earn the right to not only accept the other person but to invest in the other person.
(I'm not talking about the stenotype of a naive girl who swears "I can change him!" but real, long-term contribution to the other person.)
few start up dollars but everything you have for all time.
Because of what we invest in that relationship we earn the right to not only accept the other person but to
• Engage: This is the real question-How do you love someone you love?
How do you help them be the best that they can be?
Do you just let them give in to their worst impulses?
Nope.
Do you harp and harangue?
Probably won't work so there is not point.
Real love mixes commendation with correction, examples of courage and conviction with advice against compromise.
invest in the other person.
(I'm not talking about the stenotype of a naive girl who swears "I can change him!" but real, long-term contribution to the other person.)
• Engage: This is the real question-How do you love someone you love?
How do you help them be the best that they can be?
Do you just let them give in to their
worst impulses?
Nope.
Do you harp and harangue?
Probably won't work so there is not point.
Real love mixes commendation with correction, examples of courage
• Expand: We do that for our spouses, our children, our dearest friends.
Jesus does it for His beloved Church by addressing seven specific local congregations.
Real towns in real circumstances.
John knew the communities.
He knew very well the geography and peculiarities.
He understood what they did well and where they failed.
Jesus used that knowledge in addressing His Church, lifting His Church, focusing His Church.
and conviction with advice against compromise.
Rev 2-3
• Expand: We do that for our spouses, our children, our dearest friends.
In Jesus does it for His beloved Church by addressing seven specific local
• Excite: I love GFCC.
Like every congregation we are a mixed bag of strengths and weaknesses.
Are we listening to He who walks among the candlesticks?
Do we
congregations.
Real towns in real circumstances.
John knew the communities.
He knew very well the geography and peculiarities.
He understood what the did well
• Excite: I love GFCC.
Like every congregation we are a mixed bag of strengths and weaknesses.
Are we listening to He who walks among the candlesticks?
Do we heed Him when he chastises?
Are we attentive to the two-edged sword which comes from His mouth…from which I am preaching just now?
How is our relationship with our master?
and where they failed.
Jesus used that knowledge in addressing His Church, lifting His Church, focusing His Church.
• Excite: I love GFCC.
Like every congregation we are a mixed bag of strengths and weaknesses.
Are we listening to He who walks among the candlesticks?
Do we
• Excite: I love GFCC.
Like every congregation we are a mixed bag of strengths and weaknesses.
Are we listening to He who walks among the candlesticks?
Do we
heed Him when he chastises?
Are we attentive to the two-edged sword which comes from His mouth…from which I am preaching just now?
How is our
• Explore:
relationship with our master?
The relationship of Jesus to His Church is one of loving, jealous direction.
• Explore: The relationship of the Church to Jesus is one of loving, jealous direction.
Explain:
Do we see ourselves mirrored in this correspondence between Jesus and the Churches of Asia Minor.
• Explain: Do we see ourselves mirrored in this correspondence between Jesus and the Churches of Asia Minor.
Let's use this text to help our church ask some hard
Let's use this text to help our church ask some hard questions.
questions.
▾ Body of Sermon:
Are we noted for our Conviction?
▾ Are we noted for our Conviction?
• Ephesus: Testing faith claims.
hate the work of the Nicolaitans
• Ephesus: Testing faith claims.
hate the work of the Nicolaitans
• Smyrna…be faithful unto death.
• Smyrna…be faithful unto death.
• Philadelphia…kept the word with patient endurance in the face of opposition.
• Philadelphia…kept the word with patient endurance in the face of opposition.
Do we stand with Courage?
▾ Do we stand out for our Courage?
• Smyrna: Impoverished and slandered…imprisoned, suffering, tribulation.
• Smyrna: Impoverished and slandered…imprisoned, suffering, tribulation.
• Pergamum…faithful even under threat of death.
• Pergamum…faithful even under threat of death.
Do we respond to Correction?
▾ Do we respond to Correction?
• The purpose of correction is to bring repentance.
• The desired outcome is restored focus in ministry.
• Ephesus…abandoned first love…repent and do what you had it first.
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