to introduce people to Jesus Christ and help them become

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Our
Purpose

• to introduce people to Jesus Christ and help them
  become
• devoted followers of Him.

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Introduction

• To introduce people to Jesus Christ
• and
• Transformation
• and help them become
• devoted followers of Him.

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Your Response

• 1. Get serious about your own walk with God.
• 2. Set a prayer commitment for the rest of this
  year for people who you know need Jesus.
• 3. Become a partner somewhere in our purpose.

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Vision Statement
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• Our

Vision
G________ _____ Through Heartfelt Worship Reach
Out to Others With The Love Of Christ Obey Gods
Command To Make Disciples Win Others To Christ
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• Glorify God
• through Heartfelt Worship

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• Ephesians 320,21 - Now to him who is able to do
  immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine,
  according to his power that is at work within us,
  21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ
  Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and
  ever! Amen.

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• God is most glorified in us
• when we are most satisfied in Him.

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• Reach Out to Others
• with the Love of Christ

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• God both commands and empowers us to love like
  Jesus.

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• Reach Out to Others
• with the Love of Christ

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1. It is Proof of our Salvation

• 1 John 47-13 - Dear friends, let us love one
  another, for love comes from God. Everyone who
  loves has been born of God and knows God. 8
  Who-ever does not love does not know God, because
  God is love.

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• 9 This is how God showed his love among us He
  sent his one and only Son into the world that we
  might live through him. 10 This is love not that
  we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his
  Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

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• 11 Dear friends, since God so loved
• us, we also ought to love one another
• 12 No one has ever seen God but if we love one
  another, God lives in us and his love is made
  complete in us.
• 13 We know that we live in him and
• he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

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• Romans 55 - God has poured out his love into
  our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given
  us.

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2. It is a test of our relationship with
the Lord.

• Matthew 2236 - "Teacher, which is the greatest
  commandment in the Law?" 37 Jesus replied "Love
  the Lord your God with all your heart and with
  all your soul and with all your mind.' 38 This is
  the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the
  second is like it 'Love your neighbor as
  yourself.' 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang
  on these two commandments."

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• John 1334,35 - "A new command I give you Love
  one another. As I have loved you, so you must
  love one another. 35 By this all men will know
  that you are my disciples, if you love one
  another."

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• Galatians 516,17 - So I say, live by the Spirit,
  and you will not gratify the desires of the
  sinful nature. 17 For the sinful nature desires
  what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit
  what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are
  in conflict with each other, so that you do not
  do what you want.

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• Hatred
• Discord
• Jealousy
• Fits of rage
• Selfish ambition
• Dissensions
• Factions
• Envy

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• Ephesians 525,26 - Since we live by the Spirit,
  let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us
  not become conceited, provoking and envying each
  other.

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• 1 Corinthians 131-3 - If I speak in the tongues
  of men and of angels, but have not love, I am
  only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If
  I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all
  mysteries and all knowledge, and
• if I have a faith that can move mountains, but
  have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I
  possess to the poor and surrender my body to the
  flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

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• 1 Corinthians 134-7 - Love is patient, love is
  kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is
  not proud. 5 It is not rude, it is not
  self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps
  no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in
  evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always
  protects, always trusts, always hopes, always
  perseveres.

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John 316,17 - For God so loved the world that he
gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes
in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world through
him.
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• Romans 56-8 You see, at just the right time,
  when we were still powerless, Christ died for the
  ungodly. 7 Very rarely will anyone die for a
  righteous man, though for a good man someone
  might possibly dare to die. 8 But God
  demonstrates his own love for us in this While
  we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

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1 John 31 - See how great a love the Father
has bestowed upon us, that weshould be called
children of God.
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• Matthew 5 43"You have heard that it was said,
  'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' 44 But
  I tell you Love your enemies and pray for those
  who persecute you, 45that you may be sons of your
  Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on
  the evil and the good, and sends rain on the
  righteous and the unrighteous. 46 If you love
  those who love you, what reward will you get? Are
  not even the tax collectors doing that? 47 And if
  you greet only your brothers, what are you doing
  more than others? Do not even pagans do that?

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• Ephesians 314-19 - For this reason I kneel
  before the Father, 15 from whom his whole family
  in heaven and on earth derives its name. 16 I
  pray that out of his glorious riches he may
  strengthen you with power through his Spirit in
  your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in
  your hearts through faith.

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• And I pray that you, being rooted and established
  in love, 18 may have power, together with all the
  saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and
  deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this
  love that surpasses knowledgethat you may be
  filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

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• Holy Spirit

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• Holy Spirit
• Faith

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• Reach Out to Others
• with the Love of Christ