Where Family Matters

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Where Family Matters We Are a Family of God
committed to Modeling Christ Maturing Believers
in His Image Motivating One Another
to Love and Service
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Living the Family Unity!

• Eph. 417 521
• Modeling 417-24
• Maturing 425-52
• Motivating 53-21
• Oct. 25, 2009

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Motivatingto Love and Service

• If Christ is your Model,
• And you are maturing, trying to grow to look like
  Jesus,
• Then you should be encouraging others to live
  like Jesus, also!

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Motivationto Love and Service

• (Eph 58-10 NIV) For you were once darkness, but
  now you are light in the Lord. Live as children
  of light (for the fruit of the light consists in
  all goodness, righteousness and truth) and find
  out what pleases the Lord.

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Notice the contrasts in 53-21

• Sexually immorality no hint
• Impurity and greed holy people
• Crude talk thanksgiving
• Without purpose wise
• Drunk filled with Spirit
• Sad and Selfish Encouraging in Song and giving
  thanks to God through praise in the name of Jesus

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Motivating one another to love and service

• How?
• By
• Submit to one another out of reverence for
  Christ
• Eph. 521

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