Messy Spirituality - Spiritual Growth
Eric Sebastian
Part of Message Notes
July 29, 2022

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WEEKEND WORSHIP:
Reason I Sing
How Great Is Your Love
It Is Finished

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This Week: Community (Loving Others)

Next Week: Spiritual Growth (Loving God)

Discipleship is impossible when we are not

.

If we want to grow

we’ve got to be known .

John 17:20 (NIV)
My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message…

John 17:21 (NIV)
…that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you.

“Jesus prayed that all believers would all be one - that is, experience unity. Legitimate unity is not uniformity or sameness. Rather, Jesus was talking about being unified in God and His purposes.” - Tony Evans

John 17:21 (NIV)
May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

Our effectiveness is measured by our

.

John 13:34-35 (NIV)
A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.

John 17:22-23 (NIV)
I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

Our

tells the world around us that God them and sent His Son Jesus for them.

“We weren’t created to be independent, autonomous, or self-sufficient. We were made to live in a humble, worshipful, and loving dependency upon God and in a loving and humble interdependency with others. Our lives were designed to be community projects. Yet, the foolishness of sin tells us that we have all that we need within ourselves. So we settle for relationships that never go beneath the casual. We defend ourselves when the people around us point out a weakness or a wrong. We hold our struggles within, not taking advantage of our resources God has given us.”
- Paul David Tripp, “Whiter Than Snow: Meditations on Sin and Mercy

  1. Pray for

    - with God and with others

  2. Find an

    for community

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