09-29-24

Our Mission: Bringing Hope and Impacting Our Community
by Leading People into a Growing Relationship with Jesus

CONNECTED TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE

1. UNITY IN ______________ & THE ______________ARE CONNECTED

14 For Christ Himself has brought peace to us. He united Jews and Gentiles into one people when, in His own body on the cross, He broke down the wall of hostility that separated us. 15 He did this by ending the system of law with its commandments and regulations. He made peace between Jews and Gentiles by creating in Himself one new people from the two groups. 16 Together as one body, Christ reconciled both groups to God by means of His death on the cross, and our hostility toward each other was put to death. Ephesians 2:14-16 (NLT)

When Christ is the conductor and the Church is the orchestra, unity is the music.

20 “I am praying not only for these disciples but also for all who will ever believe in me through their message. 21 I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one – as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me. John 17:20-21 (NLT)

2. WE ARE GOD’S AMBASSADORS OF ______________

So we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us. We implore you in Christ’s stead: Be reconciled to God. 2 Corinthians 5:20 (MEV)

17 Therefore, if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things have passed away. Look, all things have become new. 18 All this is from God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their sins against them, and has entrusted to us the message of reconciliation. 2 Corinthians 5:17-19 (MEV)

We are not humans doings; we are spiritual beings

3. WE ARE GOD’S _____________________________

19 So now you non-Jewish people are not visitors or strangers, but you are citizens together with God’s holy people. You belong to God’s family. 20 You believers are like a building that God owns. That building was built on the foundation that the apostles and prophets prepared. Christ Jesus Himself is the most important stone in that building. 21 The whole building is joined together in Christ, and He makes it grow and become a holy temple in the Lord. 22 And in Christ you are being built together with His other people. You are being made into a place where God lives through the Spirit. Ephesians 2:19-22 (ERV)

Like the root system makes a tree strong, Christ is our spiritual root