Promoting deliberate MINISTRY to the world

You ran well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? This persuasion does not come from Him who calls you. A little leaven leavens the whole lump. I have confidence in you, in the Lord, that you will have no other mind; but he who troubles you shall bear his judgment, whoever he is. And I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why do I still suffer persecution? Then the offense of the cross has ceased. I could wish that those who trouble you would even cut themselves off! For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

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Circumcision is code for a life of obeying rules to earn God’s love.

(key Luke 10, Leviticus 19)

What happens to missions in a church that is only concerned with rule-based religion?

Thats what i want to look at right now

Anatomy of a dying, inward church:

Only focus on rules, no grace no love. ---> They pick and choose which rules are sin ---> They pick which people are capable of obeying their religion. —> they lose the gospel. —> the lose the drive to share —> they stop doing precious ministry around them —> they lose the ground around them and wonder where it went

This whole time they have been giving and patting themselves on the back.

So what should we do?

Luke 10:27 NKJV

So he answered and said, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,’ and ‘your neighbor as yourself.’ ”

Love God, Serve People

We dont label our rules as sin

We dont pick and chose who to love and serve

We all GO, indivudally and personally.

We send our best out to plant new churches and do missions here, and all over the world

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