Bearing Witness in a World of Hurt

This Has Always Been a World of Hurt

Plague Histories

We Still Believe by Kathryn Scott

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Kathryn Scott: “It is at the end of the day we get to look God in the face and declare: We still Believe.”

“We Still Believe” is one way of saying, “We live in trust of God’s Love”

We Look Around Us and See a World of Hurt

This is a World of Hurt that Needs a Witness of Love

Bishop Timothy Clarke of Ohio said it well: “The world at its worst needs the church at its best.”

Bear the Witness of Love in a World of Hurt

We Live in Trust Because We’re Not From Here

John 15:18–19 ESV

“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

We Live in Trust Because We Know Whose We Are

John 15:20–21 ESV

Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.

We Live in Trust Because We Know We Are Forgiven

John 15:22–25 ESV

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. Whoever hates me hates my Father also. If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father. But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: ‘They hated me without a cause.’

We Live in Trust Because the Spirit of Truth is With Us

John 15:26–27 ESV

“But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me. And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.

We Live in Trust Because This World is Not Our Home

John 16:1–2 ESV

“I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.

We Live in Trust No Matter What this World Throws At Us

John 16:3–4 ESV

And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me. But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you. “I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you.

While I Wait by Lincoln Brewster

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When We Live in Trust, We Can Wait and Worship