COMMUNITY

Maturity brings Unity

Pastor Hope Flask

November 17, 2024

Main Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13

Additional Scriptures: John 13:35, Isaiah 50:4 NASB, Matthew 7:1-5

POINTS:

• The American church is guilty of multiplying disciples who do not know how to love.

• We don’t know how to love others because we don’t know how to love ourselves.

• We haven’t learned what is part of the old nature and what is part of the new one.

• The outside work: we must turn outward towards connection instead of inward towards disconnection.

• The inside work: repentance by asking questions of ourselves.

  • Am I fully present or distracted?

  • Am I loving them or judging them?

  • Am I open or closed to being changed?

• We turn our differences into virtues of moral superiority.

• Supernatural authority is given to us when we wield the truth in love.

• To love people well we must:

  • Enter into each other’s world by practicing empathy.

  • Hold on to yourself in your relationship with others.

  • We must live in the tensions of the two worlds.