I hope to bring back an old series of posts I used to do but got away from it. On Tuesday's I hope to post some thoughts from the lesson that was previously taught at Merge the Sunday before...
Series: Other People
Lesson: Other People Need Compassion
Text: Mark 1:40-42; John 12:45-46; John 20:21
Some Thoughts:
---At Merge we don't believe that size of building or size of crowd is necessarily the best way to determine the health of a church.
---Our desire in accepting God's adventure in planting Merge isn't to be the biggest church in Lake Worth; it is to be the best church we can be as we believe God is going to do some incredible things through us in this city.
---A major factor in us being "successful" at Merge had to do with your willingness to engage "other people" for the Gospel of Jesus, (both inside and outside these walls).
---In the Gospel's people very unlike Jesus, really liked Him. AND HE LIKED THEM IN RETURN.
---Though our tendency is to see and evaluate people based on societal standard, here at Merge it is vital that you realize we are called to be different. We aren't called to look like society, we are called to look like Jesus!!!
---There is a great difference between compassion and sympathy.
---Compassion will lead you to action where sympathy will lead you to temporarily feeling bad for a persons situation.
---We are all living around Modern Day Lepers and we may not even be aware of it because we aren't walking with our eyes open.
---The largest hurdle we are going to have to jump when it comes to engaging "Other People" isn't resources or opportunities...it is in choosing action over comfort.
---We have to get passed our abilities to muzzle our hearts with our comfortable living.
---Our motivation for engaging "Other People" is that people far from God would find life in Christ.
---Psalm 115:11
Heart and Soul,
BAG
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