2020 06 14 - Taking a Step Back Before We Go Forward
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Welcome
Today’s Passage
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Connect
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EXPLORE
PRIMARY SCRIPTURE
16 By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 17 But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? 18 Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
UNDERSTANDING THE CONTEXT OF THE SCRIPTURE
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MAIN IDEA
Transition from scripture to main idea
THE MAIN THING: Before we rush to “get back to normal” we need to look at what God has shown us during the crisis.
THE MAIN THING: Before we rush to “get back to normal” we need to look at what God has shown us during the crisis.
Explore the Main Idea
Question 1: What have our empty buildings told us about our investments?
Question 1: What have our empty buildings told us about our investments?
Point 1 text
16 By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
1. We need to focus on presence over facilities
1. We need to focus on presence over facilities
Question 2: What have our cancelled programs told us about discipleship?
Question 2: What have our cancelled programs told us about discipleship?
Point 2 text
2 and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.
2. We need to focus on personal discipleship over participation
2. We need to focus on personal discipleship over participation
Question 3: What has our isolation told us about our need for community?
Question 3: What has our isolation told us about our need for community?
Point 3 Text
18 Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
3. We need to focus on building relationships over making impressions
3. We need to focus on building relationships over making impressions
Question 4: What has the things we are still doing told us about who we can be?
Question 4: What has the things we are still doing told us about who we can be?
Point 3 Text
12 He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. 13 But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, 14 and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”
4. We need to focus on hurting people over helping ourselves
4. We need to focus on hurting people over helping ourselves
Transform
Coming Back to the Main Thing: Before we rush to “get back to normal” we need to look at what God has shown us during the crisis.
Coming Back to the Main Thing: Before we rush to “get back to normal” we need to look at what God has shown us during the crisis.
Invitation
A prayer for God to guard our steps forward not backward.
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