We Are The Church!
Part VI; March 30, 2025
“We Are a Hospital!”
Yet more and more people believed and were brought to the Lord—crowds of both men and women. 15 As a result of the apostles’ work, sick people were brought out into the streets on beds and mats so that Peter’s shadow might fall across some of them as he went by. 16 Crowds came from the villages around Jerusalem, bringing their sick and those possessed by evil spirits, and they were all healed. —Acts 5:14-16 (NLT)
The Church’s identity comes out of God’s identity:
Our God is a
…I am the LORD who heals you. —Exodus 15:26 (NLT)
Our God is a
…I restore the crushed spirit of the humble and revive the courage of those with repentant hearts. —Isaiah 57:15 (NLT)
Our God is a
Call on me in the day of distress; I will deliver you, and you will glorify me. —Psalm 50:15 (ISV)
Our God is a
Though we are overwhelmed by our sins, you forgive them all. —Psalm 65:3 (NLT)
Let’s seek to see people as
When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were confused and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. —Matthew 9:36 (NLT)
There’s always a story behind people’s “stuff.”
Let’s be patient with people in the
Jesus accepted people where they were in order to lead them to where they needed to be!
And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns. —Philippians 1:6 (NLT)
Do to others as you would like them to do to you. —– Luke 6:31 (NLT)
Let’s be vulnerable about
Help carry each other’s burdens. In this way you will follow Christ’s teachings. —Galatians 6:2 (GW)
Our openness and honesty about our own struggles gives people permission to be honest about theirs.