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O For A Thousand Tongues To Sing
O For A Thousand Tongues To Sing
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ME: ORIENTATION: FIND COMMON GROUND WITH THE AUDIENCE

ME: ORIENTATION: FIND COMMON GROUND WITH THE AUDIENCE

Name something you think is missing in church?

My youth
Crowds
People just walking through the door.
my eaistline

How did you come to faith?
Always had it
Jesus movement
Camp
confirmation
Not sure
What is the craziest thing you have ever done for God?
went into ministry.
preached a sermon
leg lengthening in a Methodist church
Preached in a bull horn in town
climbed the quarry, didn’t do that for God but God used it.
Black Panthers

WE: IDENTIFICATION (MAKE IT CLEAR THAT YOU STRUGGLE)

GOD: ILLUMINATION (THE GOAL IS TO RESOLVE THE TENSION
I. How much of Christ do you want and how much do you need?

4 “But I have this complaint against you. You don’t love me or each other as you did at first! 5 Look how far you have fallen! Turn back to me and do the works you did at first. If you don’t repent, I will come and remove your lampstand from its place among the churches (NLT)

(ESV)
(ESV)

4 But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. 5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent (ESV)
A. Love
A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, 3rd ed. ἀγάπη
① the quality of warm regard for and interest in another, esteem, affection, regard, love (without limitation to very intimate relationships
B. Abandon

C. Remember

“The most important [commandment],” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” (ESV)
D. Repent

E. Do what you did before

12 And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. (ESV)

II. Cross bearing is a way of life

A. Review

34 Then, calling the crowd to join his disciples, he said, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross, and follow me NLT

34 And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
35 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it.
36 For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? 37 For what can a man give in return for his soul? (ESV)

III. Jesus talks about believing, so what does that mean

YOU: APPLICATION (TELL PEOPLE WHAT TO DO AND WHAT THEY HAVE HEARD)
Conclusion:

A way of life
When We All Get To Heaven

I. How much of Christ do you want and how much do you need?

A. Love

B. Abandon

C. Remember

D. Repent

E. Do what you did before

II. Cross bearing is a way of life

III. Jesus talks about believing, so what does that mean