Through The Bible Together Vision

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Illus.: Talk about my dad’s mom - my grandmaw Reba - and how she taught me to fish and all kinds of others things. I would spend weekends with her and she would take me on adventures. One of those adventures involved a metal detector and a lot of walking. We didn’t find much that day, but we did make a memory that nearly 40 years later still lives on in my heart and mind.
We all have memories of family gatherings and time spent with people that we will carry on in our lives.
First date
Family Gatherings
First day of work
Sad Moments
We carry those moments with us because in living through these good and bad times we learn something. We learned something about ourselves, life and even about God.
Today, I want to introduce to a vision the Lord laid on my heart for our church for 2021. This vision is a simple vision, but it will only be effective if we do our part. Here is the vision. We are calling it…THROUGH THE BIBLE TOGETHER.
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During 2021 I am challenging us to individually and colletively read through the Bible together as a church family.
What will that look like?
We will have a reading plan (Robery Murray McCheyne’s) - Available in bookley form 12/13 & on our website or YouVersion
The preaching will reinforce the reading.
Why would we do this? What do we expect to find?
GOD
Turn with me to John 15. Here Jesus in talking to His disciples shares with them the inmportance of spending time in His Word. He shares with the importance of abiding or remaining in Him. As we read this passgae today, there are five things we will find as we read God’s word together...
[READ John 15:1-11]
What will we find as we read THROUGH THE BIBLE TOGETHER this coming year?
FORGIVENESS OF SIN (John 15:3)
You are clean - this was an acknowledgement of the disciples forgiveness
How did they get clean? - the word that I have spoke to you
How do we get clean today? How do we experience this same forgiveness?
Conviction - put yourself in the position to be forgiven - getting Mexican food - reading God’s Word
Repentance - acting upon conviction - many stop here - 180 degree turn - what is God convicting you of
Forgiveness - God promises this to us - 1 john 1:9
COMMUNION/CONNECTION WITH GOD (John 15:4,7)
John 15:4 - Abide in me - Remain in me - Dwell in me - The challenge is that our heart wander - mind wanders
How do we remain in Him? With wandering hearts
John 15:7 - we abide in him by abiding in His Word & His Word Abiding in Us
Compare to distance in relationships
COMMUNITY WITH FELLOW CHRISTIANS (John 15:5)
Who is the vine? God - abiding in Him
Who are the branches? We are - those who are followers of Jesus
Are we alone in this thing? No, branches is plural. We are suposed to do this thing together.
How do we get closer with our brothers and sisters in Christ? We get closer to the Lord
When we spoend time connecting to the Lord our community with believers gets better.
Talk about how 2020 has in many ways divided the church. We need to get back on the same page. We will do this through spending time in God’s Word together.
Think about how cool it will be to know that as you open the Bible each day you will be reading what I read and what many others folks read that day. How cool.
As we read the Bible we will be one - John 17:23
THE LOVE OF GOD (John 15:9-10)
Abide in my love - feeling love often comes and goes - why - we come and go
How do we abide in God’s love?
John 15:10 - keeping God’s commandments - the more we read - the more we obey - the more we experience God’s love
The reason that many of us don’t feel God’s love. We aren’t reading his love letter - reading love letters all over again from Julie vs. reading hate mail over and over again
JOY LIKE NO OTHER (John 15:11)
God has spoken that our joy may be filled
The reason that many Christians don’t experience joy is because they are being filled with it.
Gas light - no gas light for Christian soul - just a lack of fruit of the Spirit
Is you tank low? Get in God’s Word
HOW TO READ THE BIBLE EFFECTIVELY
GET A PHYSICAL BIBLE
TAKE NOTES
GET A PLAN (Show them a copy of the plan)
SET A TME & PLACE
DON’T DO IT ALONE (If you fall behind, go to the right day and stay with one another. Catch up later.)
So what now?
Is God convicting you? REPENT
Is God calling you to read the Bible this year? COMMIT
Do you have a burden? PRAY
Close by praying for our community and to the end of COVID-19.
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