According to many people, including historians, we live in the most divisive time in the US since the civil war. Jesus called us to be peacemakers. The stakes could not be higher for the church to be the salt and light it is supposed to be, a community full of unity. Pastor Paul shares why we must take ‘Jesus is Lord’ seriously and seek first the kingdom of God.
Promises
Maverick City Music
Son of Suffering
Bethel Music
Used to This
Elevation Worship and Maverick City Music
Series Recap
Consumerism
The Lie: I am what I possess.
Radical Individualism
The Lie: I am my own.
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Today’s Message
Politics
The Lie: I am trusting humanity over God.
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Genesis 3:6
When she saw that the fruit was desirable and that it would bring wisdom, they both ate it.
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1 Samuel 8:19-20
We want a king over us. Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles.
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Current Day Influences
1. The absence of embodied community
2. Technology
3. Tribes
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Tribe
A connected group of people with a shared interest and a shared way to communicate.
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Law of Group Polarization
When people of like mind get together, they each (individually) become more extreme in their views.
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Tribalism
Selecting and surrounding yourself with people like you that encourages and leads to even more extremism in your views.
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Carl Trueman
“The identification of Christianity with political agendas, whether of the right or the left, is problematic…the gospel cannot and must not be identified with partisan politics…The politics of any particular nation and the destiny of God’s people, the church, must never be identified as one in the same. The Bible gives no basis for doing that.”
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Jeremiah 2:13
“My people have committed two sins: they have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.”
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Matthew 5:9
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons (and daughters) of God.
