WE ARE THE CHURCH – For Everyone

After leading up to this moment in Luke’s history of the church, he drops the bombshell—the gospel will go to the Gentiles.

“The church is the church only when it exists for others … not dominating, but helping and serving.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Jeremiah 17:9-10 (The Message)

9-10  “The heart is hopelessly dark and deceitful, a puzzle that no one can figure out.  But I, God, search the heart and examine the mind.  I get to the heart of the human.  I get to the root of things.  I treat them as they really are, not as they pretend to be.”

“Even our past spiritual integrity must not keep us from obeying God’s transformation and grace.”  Matthew Henry

Jesus was moved by .

“I believe that much of the secret of soul-winning lies in having bowels of compassion, in having spirits that can be touched with the feeling of human infirmities.”  Charles H. Spurgeon

1. LET  BE YOUR MOTIVE.

“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others, the feet to hasten to the poor and needy, the eyes to see misery and want, and the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.”  Saint Augustine

2. LIVE WITH .

3. LEAD WITH .

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