The Christmas story, the story of Jesus’ birth, is just one part of a much bigger story – God’s story – which starts at creation and ends at the creation of a new heaven and new earth. We can divide this story into five parts:
John 3:16-21. The church is called to three devotions: to love God, love others and love the lost. Today we are looking at the third one: loving the lost. Susan explained that evangelism = loving the lost and asked us three questions:
John Chapter 15:12-17.The church is called to three devotions: to love God, love others and love the lost. Today we begin by looking at loving each other at a deeper level. One of the many things Jesus said at the last supper before he died, and something which influenced the disciples to go on and lay down their lives for others was: Greater love has no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
God the Father is the most encouraging of parents, who wants you to become the greatest you can be. We see evidence for this in the prayer of Jesus in John 17
….how we deal with temptation in our life will determine what fruit it produces in us. So to deal with it in a way that we bear good fruit, we can: