
and one of them, an expert in the law, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.” —Matthew 22:35-40
If we don’t love our neighbor, the
Politics is about how we live together, and how we make decisions together: Who gets what, when, and how?
The goal at Acts 2 is not political uniformity, but spiritual
While disagreement is unavoidable, division is a
Our Political Agenda Comes from Jesus
Our political agenda is to love our neighbors and our
“We refuse to alienate half our community by siding with one political party over the other.
We chose to stand with Jesus in the messy middle, where problems are solved.” —Andy Stanley
We don’t take our cues from
God wants us to do for
We can disagree politically and
We make an
“We can carry a kingdom heart with us into all of life, including politics.” —Michael Wear
The Way Forward
Choose
Break groupthink and your
When we carry one another’s burdens, we move
“We are, all of us, never-ceasing spiritual beings with a unique eternal calling to count for good in God’s great universe.” —Dallas Willard
Engaging in service is perhaps most important not for what we do but for who we
The Final Exam
We won’t know when the exam is, and we need to be
What we do with our earthly life has eternal
Beware of going along with the
How you treat
Are you a wise sheep or a foolish goat? Both groups were surprised! (Matthew 25:37, 45-46)
Jesus takes it
“Do all the good that you can, to everyone that you can, everywhere that you can, in every way that you can.” —paraphrase of John Wesley’s instructions to the first Methodists
Were the goats too
We are
Kindness is to be our way of
Jesus’ love comes with
As we celebrate 25 years of kindness, together we have given
Action Steps
Sunday: Pray for God to bless and use
Monday: Like Jesus, always choose people over
Tuesday: Vote, be
Wednesday and forever: Continue to pray for our country and the world, and keep being kind.
“My additional notes: