20/20 Vision: Fulfilling the Great Commandments
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“Loving God, Loving People by being Disciples who make Disciples”
And 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 great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
Loving God
Starts with a personal relationship
Pursued by God
We love because he first loved us.
Respond through personal relationship
1 John
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Centered on God
-Our lives, church, ministries are pointless unless they are centered on a love for God.
“Everything in your Christian life, everything about knowing Him and experiencing Him, everything about knowing His will depends on the quality of your love relationship with God. If that is not settle, nothing in your life will be right.”
-Henry Blackaby
-If you struggle with obeying God, you do not have an obedience problem, but a love problem.
2. Loving People
-Our love of God inspires us to love others.
a. Inspired to love
2. Loving People
-Our love of God inspires to love others
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b. See people as God sees them
-This cannot be done through our own means, but only through the work of Christ.
Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.
1 Corinthians 25:8-10
“There but for the grace of God go I” -John Bradford mid-sixteeth century
c. Speak truth through the Gospel
Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.
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-Love does not equal tolorance, but the ability to gently and calmly share truth
-While we are called to love others, the greatest way we can love someone is to share the Gospel. If we physically help people, but fail to share the love of Christ and the Gospel, how much help have we truly given them.
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
-Salvation is not the end goal, but a beginning point, when someone accepts Christ, we are called to walk beside them, teaching them what Scripture teaches, and help develop Christ-like habits or rhythms of life.
3. Be Disciples who make Disciples
3. Be Disciples who make Disciples
-Jesus call us to make disciples, to observe all that he has commanded, and declared He is always with us.
-We go with the authority of Christ.
a. What is a Disciple?
And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.”
i. Follower of Christ
ii. Being transformed by Christ
iii. Sharing Christ
-Share story about fishermen from the Leadership Conference
b. A call to all believers
-Everyone should be involved in the process of discipleship. Both growing in his/her faith and also helping others grow in their faith.