Imagine

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Imagine

• The HCN adventure begins

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Three things today

• Imagine
• What if?
• What it takes

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Imagine
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Imagine
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If Everyone Cared

• From underneath the trees, we watch the
  skyConfusing stars for satellitesI never
  dreamed that you'd be mineBut here we are, we're
  here tonight
• Singing Amen, I, I'm aliveSinging Amen, I, I'm
  alive

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If Everyone Cared

• If everyone cared and nobody criedIf everyone
  loved and nobody liedIf everyone shared and
  swallowed their prideWe'd see the day when
  nobody diedAnd I'm singing
• Singing Amen, I, I'm aliveSinging Amen, I, I'm
  alive

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If Everyone Cared

• And in the air the firefliesOur only light in
  paradiseWe'll show the world they were wrongAnd
  teach them all to sing along Singing Amen, I,
  I'm aliveSinging Amen, I, I'm alive

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If Everyone Cared

• If everyone cared and nobody criedIf everyone
  loved and nobody liedIf everyone shared and
  swallowed their prideWe'd see the day when
  nobody died
• If everyone cared and nobody criedIf everyone
  loved and nobody liedIf everyone shared and
  swallowed their prideWe'd see the day when
  nobody died

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If Everyone Cared

• And as we lie beneath the starsWe realize how
  small we areIf they could love like you and
  meImagine what the world could be If everyone
  cared and nobody criedIf everyone loved and
  nobody liedIf everyone shared and swallowed
  their prideWe'd see the day when nobody died

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Imagine

• How big is your vision?

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Imagine

• 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, to him be glory
  in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all
  generations, for ever and ever! Amen. Ephesians
  320-21

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Imagine

• How big is your imagination? Can you imagine
• Developing deep, lasting friendships with other
  people?
• People embracing Christianity as a way of life
  and not just going to church on Sunday?
• Groups of 10-20 Christians gathering in homes and
  other place all over southern NH?

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Imagine

• Ton of your friends, family, neighbors,
  co-workers trusting in Christ
• More and more churches starting everywhere, whole
  neighborhoods changed
• 30, 40, 50, 60 a hundred or more groups
  gathering together monthly to celebrate
• Renting the Verizon Wireless Arena for our 2012
  annual conference!

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What if?

• We could really love God, and be loved by Him
  without the religiosity
• We could love each other in a way that made
  people stand up and take notice
• We could lovingly serve people with no strings
  attached

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What if?

• We became serious followers of Jesus as
  individuals, as couples, and as families
• We actually lived out what we believed
• We asked God to answer really hard questions and
  do really big things in peoples lives

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What it takes

• Partnership 1 Corinthians 36
• Him leading, guiding, moving, empowering
• Courage
• Acts of faith
• Devotion
• Endurance
• Responsibility
• The main thing obedience

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Three things today

• Imagine
• Envision big, believe big, ask big
• What if?
• Ask questions of God and of ourselves
• What it takes
• Obedience live it