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Quotes and Reflections on Christian Love and Community
Christian Community can neither be community nor Christian without exhibiting the “God kind of Love”. Where this supernatural love is not present, the Church can neither “come-in-unity”, nor be a place that nourishes love as the priority that shapes one’s life purpose and lifestyle. When a church chooses to be intentional about building loving, caring…
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Solution: The Necessity of Biblical Love (Versus Modern Definitions)
Love as Defined by Scripture and Lived in the Early Church Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. (1 John 4:7,8) Therefore, since God is love and…
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Solution: Church as Love
So, what is the solution to the problems in today’s Church? The solution is for God’s people to return to the vision of the Church the New Testament revealed and the early Church lived. This is a picture of a people who believed the Gospel to the point of living it. They believed it enough…
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When the Church Harms More than Heals
What’s At Stake? : The Church is a revelation of Jesus, and what it is to look like to live with God, and share His love with one another as His household. But our failure to live love, and seek God for the wisdom and power to live under His care, presents a Church that…
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Significant Problems of Today’s Church
Jesus said that He would build His Church, and His disciples, and early Christians had a clear sense of what He meant by that claim. It is this Church that we must rediscover today if we are to manifest God’s Presence as Church, and if each member is to grow up as a mature lover…
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The Love God
The love of God is not just a topic we highlight once in a while in a sermon. We see the love of God as the reason for our existence and the reason for creation itself. The Biblical commands to love God and one another propel our lives. Jesus is asked, “Which commandment is the…