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What brings us here?
What do we get?
What do we give?
What changes in us?
Called by God
God’s call on our lives
God calls us - Here for a Reason
Here for a reason
Here for a reason
Here & now
We value you,
God values you
God values this church
Sometimes we hold something back
Maybe we’ve been hurt before
Maybe we’re not sure that this is the right church for us
God’s called us to be here, so let’s be here
Training Our Hearts to Listen
Sometimes we need others to help us hear - Samuel needed Eli
Eli’s willingness is a remarkable thing
Often think of our relationship with God as being one-to-one
That’s part of it, but there’s much more to being Christian than that.
On our own we can be tone-deaf to the call of God, sometimes we can lose touch with God’s voice altogether
Who’s voice am I hearing?
God’s voice, my own voice, some other voice, or my mum?
“God told me not to get car insurance”
I’m not sure that it’s God’s voice that you’re listening to
We’re not in this on our own
1 Cor 12:
We come together as members of the Body of Christ, to hear and respond to God’s voice together
Iron sharpening iron
principle
We’re in this together
God invites us to commit to him
as we commit to one another
Nadia Bolz-Weber on prayer:
When we pray on another's behalf, we become connected to that person through God.
And we become connected to God through that person because maybe these silken threads of prayer which connect us to God and to one another and even to our enemies are how God is stitching our broken humanity back together.
That’s what is means to be church together
We are each unique
We are all needed
We all need Christian Community, and our Christian Community needs each one of us.
We’ve all here today, because God has called us to be together today.
Is there something significant here?
Who and what is God calling us to be?
Let’s commit to God & to one another
Dad story
Not about joining a club, it is about belonging to one another
Not about giving up who you are, It is about embracing who we are, together.
Not about forever, about today
Because Christian faith is not an individual pursuit
We’re all in this together.
We’re not all Presbyterians, we’re all Christians, yet here we are in a Presbyterian church together.
We are different from one another, and that’s OK.
In fact, that’s awesome.
Lois’ Intersecting bubbles
Commit to one another.
Support one another.
Be responsible to one another.
Speak Lord, your servant is listening
Prayer:
We’re going through uncertain times
There are exciting things on the horizon
Call us Lord
Bring us together as your body
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