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Introduction
Looking forward to continuing our series “Who is LBC?”
This series was birthed from a conversation with the church in October where I facilitated a discussion surrounding our core values, vision, mission, and process.
Our first week we went over our core values:
Loving, Inspiring, Bold, Enthusiastic, Relational, Timeless, Yearning to Impact
Say those with me.
These speak to who we are and how we make decisions in order to accomplish what God has called us to as a body of believers.
Our vision statement reads
VISION-Liberty Baptist Exists to Become a Diverse Family that Inspires People to Follow Jesus by Multiplying Followers of Jesus who love, serve, and invest in our community and beyond.
Liberty Baptist Exists to Become a Diverse Family that Inspires People to Follow Jesus by Multiplying Followers of Jesus who love, serve, and invest in our community and beyond.
We’ve seen from scripture that being a diverse family lets us experience a little Heaven on earth.
We also saw that to inspire people to follow Jesus we have to be an inspired people following Jesus.
Today we are going to look at what it means to Love, Serve, and invest in our community and beyond.
Today I want us to focus on three simple truths about us as a church family and that is this “We love, we serve, we invest.”
Say that with me.
We love, we serve, we invest.
Iif someone asks you what do you do at Liberty you can answer them, we love, we serve, we invest.
Why do we do those three things?
What would be the impact if you did all three of those things through your local church?
Not only do I want you to consider what would happen to your life if you did these things, I want you to consider how the lives of those around you could be impacted.
let’s start with that first one
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We Love
What’s the biblical foundation for this being part of who we are?
John 13:31-35
The setting that John is writing about here is the last supper.
Jesus has washed the feet of hisi disciples, and dismissed Judas to go betray Him.
Then he says the words we just read.
I give you a new command, love has I have loved you.
While the great commission are the last words Jesus spoke before his ascension, before leaving His disciples at this dinner, he had a dialogue with them and this was how he started it, Love one another.
As followers of Jesus we are supposed to love one another and that is how we are supposed to be known.
Are you known for your love for others?
Does your life reflect the love Jesus has for you by the way you love others?
Can I give you a few ways to determine if your loving like Jesus loves?
These are not exhaustive but are a great start.
Ask yourself, am I being intentional in showing my love or am I waiting for people to ask me to love them?
You see to love like Jesus loves we must be intentional with our love.
Our love to our family, our love to our friends, and based on the words of Jesus here, the love we show to fellow believers.
How can you be intentional?
Just ask.
How can I showyou love?
You say pastor, that’s weird.
I don’t care.
Be weird.
I like to ask people that I’m praying for “is there anything practically that I can do for you?”
I’ll pray and I know God working is better than me working anytime, however if I can do something and be used of God to be blessing and show love, I want to do that.
Have you asked your spouse recently..what could I do today to help you out?
That’s a means of intentionally showing love.
Some have said “see a need meet a need” and that is a fantastic philosphy for someone to have.
Sometimes I’m a little dense and Idon’t see the needs.
I have to ask.
What are the needs of the church?
Great question.
We need volunteers in nursery.
We need an usher team.
We need someone to lead the first impressions team.
We need help with our digital database and organizing it.
We always need a clean up team for events.
Don’t be a consumer when it comes to church, or any relationship you have.
Be a contributor.
it’s been incorrrectly said that marriage is a 50 50 relationship.
You do your 50 and I’ll do my 50 and we’l;l have 100.
That’s wrong.
All relationships are 100/100.
You give 100 and I give 100 and we have the best relationhip we can.
Jesus didn’t give half of himself to us, He gave us everything He is.
He was intentionally pursuing us.
Then he said, love others like I’ve loved you.
2. The second questioin you can ask yourself is, Am I being sacrificial in how I show love?
Does the love I’m showing cost me something?
Money, time, convenience?
When Jesus loved, He loved sacrificially.
He was the lamb lead to the slaughter.
He sacrificed Heaven, He sacrificed communion with the father when He hung on the cross, He sacrificed all that He was so that we could take part in all that He is.
It’s been said that to go up, you have to give up.
If you want to go up in any area of life, you have to be willing to give up something to do it.
Are you willing to give up anything to go up in your love for others?
Are you willing to acrifice somet iime to go sit with a widow you don’t know to be an encouragement?
We have one who needs visits.
Are you willing to sacrifice some money and time to cook a meal for people in need?
We have someone right now that needs it
Are you willing to sacrifice time to serve in ministries at the church to love on the people here and the community we serve?
We have opportunitines.
The last question I’d challenge you to ask yourself to see if you are loving like Jesus is this
3. Am I cheerful in showing love?
Man, you ever done something you know you were supposed to do but you didn’t really want to do?
Ever been there?
It can be difficult to keep the right attitude towards it.
What is it that impacts your attitude?
It’s what we talked about last weekend, mindset.
Or even better, heartset.
What is your heart set on?
When you show love you don’t always start out desiring to.
But when you see the impact of your love on the life of another person, your heart is impacted and your focused.
Too many of us wait until we feel like loving to show it.
Choose to be cheerful when you show love and see what the impact from that is.
When we are a loving people, we are a serving people
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We Serve
Mark 10:45
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