For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
John 3:17, ESV
We already stood condemned before God. Jesus came as our way out of condemnation and from God’s wrath against all unrighteousness.
Shouldn’t we want to tell people about that?
Even with peers my own age, I was one of those odd ones who was marginalized because I went hostile to the Gospel to fully evangelical. I was put in leadership, like Jimmy discusses.
I found it easier to talk with others. Now, I have some youth who find it easier to talk with me and therefore others, because they are the “odd ones out.”
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
Hebrews 10:24-25, ESV
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For this Sunday here’s what you can do: Talk to someone at church that has no fellow peer in the person’s age group. This might be largely applicable in smaller churches. But then again sometimes big churches has a large segment of a certain demographics be it young family, young adults, etc. In such […]
This Sunday at Church: Talk to someone at church that has no fellow peer in the person’s age group
The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
John 1:29, ESV
We don’t always see Jesus coming, but we can help others recognize the Savior we all need.
But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.
Isaiah 53:5, ESV
We deserved punishment and death for our rebellion against God, but Jesus took our penalty, as prophesied 700 years earlier.
If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.
John 13:14, ESV
Jesus demonstrated His love for us through sacrifice and inconvenience. We should be following His example in our own lives, with the Church and to the world.
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.
James 1:2-3, ESV
Just as Jesus came and suffered for us, we can expect suffering in this life. It makes us more like Him and may even show we are His through persecution.
For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Romans 10:13, ESV
Jesus has done the hard work, dying for our sins. All we need do is believe and follow, obeying His commands to live God, love others, and love His Church.
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus
Romans 3:23-24, ESV
We are all guilty of putting Jesus on the cross through our own sinful Avondale and desires, but it is that cross and His grace that has redeemed us from wrongdoing and God’s wrath.
Who here found some TED talk helpful?
More than TED style talk I think the Church need to recover “TEXT” Talk. Especially in the Pulpit.
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He is not here, for he has risen, as he said. Come, see the place where he lay.
Matthew 28:6, ESV
There is no body in a grave to be seen. Our Lord has risen, and He has ascended on high to right hand of the Father.
Jesus is our living Lord!
a simple man of God 