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Title: Being a ChristFocused Church


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Being a Christ-Focused Church
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Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to
them, "Rulers and elders of the people, if
we are on trial today for a benefit done to a
sick man, as to how this man has been made
well, let it be known to all of you and to
all the people of Israel, that by the name of
Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you
crucified, whom God raised from the dead -- by
this name this man stands here before
you in good health.  
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He is the STONE WHICH WAS REJECTED
by you, THE BUILDERS, but WHICH BECAME
THE CHIEF CORNER stone. And there is
salvation in no one else for there is no other
name under heaven that has been given
among men by which we must be
saved."  
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Now as they observed the confidence of Peter
and John and understood that they were
uneducated and untrained men, they were
amazed, and began to recognize them as having
been with Jesus. Acts
48-13
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1. Focus on His LOVE. A new commandment I
give to you, that you love one another, even as I
have loved you, that you also love one another.
By this all men will know that you are My
disciples, if you have love for one another."
John 1334,35
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2. Focus on His WORD. While he was still
speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a
voice from the cloud said, "This is my Son, whom
I love with him I am well pleased. Listen to
him!" Matthew 175 NIV
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3. Focus on His MISSION. And Jesus came up
and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has
been given to Me in heaven and on earth."Go
therefore and make disciples of all the nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father and the
Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to
observe all that I commanded you and lo, I am
with you always, even to the end of the age."
Matthew 2819,20  
A good understanding have all those who do His
commandments Psalm
11110
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So Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with
you as the Father has sent Me, I also send
you." John 2021  
A good understanding have all those who do His
commandments Psalm
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So Send I You So send I you to labor
unrewarded, To serve unpaid, unloved, unsought,
unknown, To bear rebuke, to suffer scorn and
scoffing, So send I you to toil for Me
alone.   So send I you to bind the bruised and
broken, O'er wand'ring souls to work, to weep,
to wake, To bear the burdens of a world
aweary- So send I you to suffer for My sake. 
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So send I you - to loneliness and longing, With
heart a-hungering for the loved and
known Forsaking home and kindred, friend and
dear one, So send I you - to know My love
alone.   So send I you - to leave your lifes
ambitions, To die to dear desire, self-will
resign, To labor long and love where men revile
you, So send I you - to lose your life in Mine.
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So send I you to hearts made hard by hatred, To
eyes made blind because they will not see, To
spend, tho' it be blood, to spend and spare
not- So send I you to taste of Calvary.
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So send I you - by grace made strong to
triumph O'er hosts of Hell, o'er darkness, death,
and sin, My name to bear, and in that name to
conquer- So send I you, My victory to win.   So
send I you - to take to souls in bondage The word
of truth that sets the captive free, To break the
bonds of sin, to loose death's fetters- So send I
you, to bring the lost to Me.  
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So send I you - My strength to know in
weakness, My joy in grief, My perfect peace in
pain, To prove My pow'r, My grace, My promised
presence - So send I you, eternal fruit to
gain.   "As the Father hath sent Me, so send I
you."
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4. Focus on His CHARACTER. We proclaim Him,
admonishing every man and teaching every man with
all wisdom, so that we may present every man
complete in Christ. For this purpose also I
labor, striving according to His power, which
mightily works within me.
Colossians 128,29  
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It is human to stand with the crowd it is
divine to stand alone. It is man-like to
follow the people, to drift with the tide it
is God-like to follow a principle, to stem the
tide.  It is natural to compromise conscience
and follow the social and religious fashion for
the sake of gain or pleasure it is divine to
sacrifice both on the altar of truth and duty.
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Proverbs 173 The refining pot is for silver and
the furnace for gold, but the LORD tests
hearts. Proverbs 254 Take away the dross from
the silver, and there comes out a vessel for the
smith.
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• 5. Focus on His RETURN.
• Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether
  at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him. For we
  must all appear before the judgment seat of
  Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for
  his deeds in the body, according to what he has
  done, whether good or bad. Therefore, knowing
  the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are
  made manifest to God
• 2 Corinthians 59-11