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And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Matthew 22:37-39 ESV
In world focused on ignoring God and loving self, we gather together to encourage each other to love God and others sacrificially.
What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
Philippians 4:9, ESV
This world draws away from God and His Law, so let us gather together to study Scripture and help each other to live in a way pleasing to God and have His peace.
Send thine hand from above; Rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;
Psalm 144:7, KJV
We gather as the Church to remind each other of God’s grace and faithfulness in the midst of a society that rages and wars against God.
Bow your heavens, O Lord, and come down! Touch the mountains so that they smoke!
Psalm 144:5, ESV
We come together to remind each other of God’s promises and covenants, especially that God came to us to redeem us from sin.
O Lord, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him? Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
Psalm 144:3-4, ESV
Looking at our world, it’s easy to see humans are relatively insignificant and horrible to each other. Therefore, we gather together in Christ to remind each other that the Creator loves us, saves us, and lifts us up by His Spirit.
Teach me to do your will, for you are my God! Let your good Spirit lead me on level ground!
Psalm 143:10, ESV
It is not natural for us to want to do God’s will, so we meet regularly with fellow believers – those empowered by Christ’s Holy Spirit – to encourage each other to lovingly obey Him.
Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.
Psalm 143:8, ESV
We need reminders of God’s love and faithfulness, and this is why we gather together as the Church, to lift each other up to our Savior.
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
1 John 1:7, ESV
We show our praise and thankfulnessto our Lord who saves us, who is the Light of the world, by following His example of sacrifocial love for each other and our world.
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.”
John 15:12, ESV
God became a man to show us His love and grace, reminding us of the greatest commandments: Love God and love others.
Now we share His grace by loving His saved and forgiven people, the Church, as well.
a simple man of God 