Now What Week 4

Sharable notes for the April 28, 2024 message. You can post these notes on your social platform! 

Scriptures used: Acts 2:42-47; Ephesians 2:11-14, 19-22; John 17:9,15,17,23,26
Passages Referenced:  Luke 24:44-45; Matthew 28:19-20

• A goal of the church should be to reflect the love of God.

• The Spirit of God has been given to us by Jesus to enlighten our understanding to his word and give us power over sin as discovered in his word.

• The church was and still should be devoted to the word of God, to God’s presence, to prayer, to generosity and to each other - united together amongst diversity in Christ.

• Diversity does not have to create division. Unity in the midst of diversity elevates our witness.

• The incredible experience of salvation through Jesus Christ should lead us to being connected to the body of Christ, His church.

• If you want diversity you have to be willing to fellowship with people who are different than you.

• There’s nothing wrong with natural affinities. The problem is when affinities become walls.

• Before Christ, we’re all on equal footing. We were all on the outside. But through Jesus' death and his resurrection we can be one in Him.

• When you have a group of people with little in common except for a common experience of grace—that points to the magnitude of the gospel and the power of the life change it brings.

• Love on display in the church is a powerful witness for the gospel of Christ.
  

Reflect or meet with someone to discuss:

• Have you ever disassociated from a group of people because of how they acted? Why?

• Do you think people have become disassociated from the church for similar reasons? Why?

• What role can you begin to take as a part of the church to reflect Christ more clearly in the church?

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