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*“**SL**aC** **on**”*
*“Are you Connected?”*
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Intro
Have one row volunteer to stand and rub each other's back.
First have them spread out so they cannot reach each other.
Then have them move closer together and rub.
Explain that without a connection there is no care.
How many of you out there need a spiritual or emotional back rub?
We are the conduits of God's grace and without a connection there is no care.
Have Care Group speakers share.
1) Care—Serve (We are the conduits of God's Grace)
1 Peter 4:10 “/As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.”//.../
a) Good Stewards of God’s Manifold Grace
A steward is a person who manages another person’s property.
Sometimes it is translated as "treasurer."
The steward doesn't own the property, but he has the authority to distribute funds for the ongoing care and upkeep of a person’s business, property and household.
(Luke 12:/42// And the Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and sensible steward, whom his master will put in charge of his servants, to give them their rations at the proper time?/)...
We are God’s stewards
God’s funds include His abundant grace, so that His servants (you and me) can experience care.
We all need God’s grace.
(Song: Get in touch with our spiritual poverty, As we sang this morning, we come to buy gold, but we come naked and poor, wretched and blind.
It is grace that then allows us to be clothed in white!)
When we talk about believers being conduits of God’s grace...What are we talking about?
What kinds of things ought to flow through us into others?
It is things that show care and love to one another
through our words and actions.
1 Pet 4:11 “/Whoever speaks, let him speak, as it were, the utterances of God; whoever serves, let him do so as by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified”/
Whoever speaks, whoever serves
Let Our Words, Our Actions be His Words, His Actions!...
/Do it for God’s glory/...We don’t do something so that we receive glory, rather we love and care for each another as representatives of God so that the recipient says, “Isn’t God good!
Matt 5:16 “/Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.”/
b) Everyone Is Gifted
/As each one has received a special gift/—
every single believer, without exception
No one is exempt—Everyone has received a gift, so everyone is a steward of God’s grace.
c) Employ It to Serve One Another
diakoneo—“deacon” means to wait on a table, to care for, to serve
“Service” is the action of “care.”
It is easy to say that we love everyone, but until we act on that love through service in a specific way for a particular person, it means nothing.
Greek mentality: “We are born to rule, not serve”
believed they deserved preferential treatment.
But Jesus turns that around.
Jesus’ mentality: /“If anyone wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all.”/
He sets an example for us to follow: Luke 22:27 “/For who is greater, the one who reclines at the table, or the one who serves?
Is it not the one who reclines at the table?
But I am among you as the one who serves.
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It is in our service that we really show care for one another.
But we can’t serve unless we are connected
2) Connected—Love YOU CAN’T LOVE FROM A DISTANCE!
1 Peter 1:22 “Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart,”
a) Love
Love /agapeo/ is an action word~/ not passive
It is a command, an act of the will~/ not based on feelings~/emotions.
phileo--more nearly represents “tender affection.”
More of an emotional word.
agapeo is more of a volitional word.
Commitment.
It is an unselfish kind of love.
It is a love that gives ones self willfully and selflessly to another without regard to the personal consequences.
God so wanted a relationship with us that he gave His only Son to die an agonizing death on a cross with the weight of our sins on His shoulders.
To have a relationship with us, it cost God His Son.
John 17:23 /“...I in them, and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You loved Me.”/
It is the same kind of love.
John 15:12 “/This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you..../We are to love with the same kind of love
1 John 4:7,11 /“/*/7 /*/Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; 11 if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.”/
Our responsibility, as good stewards of God’s grace, is to love one another through our words and actions.
Rom 13:8 /“Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled the law.”/
Gal 6:10 /“Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.”/
Love seeks the welfare of others, love seeks opportunity to do good to others...It is not passive, It isn’t based on emotions, but it searches out opportunities to care for others.
b) Pure
/“Purified your souls for a sincere love.”/
Pure--purity indicates a state of heart where there is complete devotion to God.
As unpolluted water is said to be pure, and gold without alloy is pure gold, so the pure heart is the undivided heart where there is no conflict of loyalties, no mixture of motives, no hypocrisy and no insecurity.
It is whole-heartedness God-wards.
A purified life comes from obedience to the Truth, Word of God .
“/Sanctify them in the Truth, Thy word is truth.”/
Ps. 119:9 /“How can a young man keep his way pure?
By living according to Your Word”./
As trials refine faith, so obedience to God’s Word refines character.
Polluted water may satisfy my thirst and re-hydrates my body but it will also make me sick.
Pure water filtered and boiled.
Contains nothing that would make me sick.
It does what it is supposed to do—it satisfies my thirst and re-hydrates my body.
A purified life allows me to have a sincere love for others.
c) Sincere
/“Purified your souls for a sincere love.”/
lit.—“unhypocritical”
It also means undisguised or genuine, something that is true or real.
Hypocritical love would be doing something for personal gain.
Matt 6:2 “/When therefore you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be honored by men.
Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full.”/
Rom 12:9 /“Love must be sincere.
Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.”/
Be Sincere, be unhypocritical in your love for one another
Sincere love can only come from a purified life.
You can’t have one without the other.
d) Fervent
Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart,
Can be translated—eagerly, constantly, earnestly, intensely
Those of you who have children have seen this word exemplified in a variety of ways: Mommy, mommy... or Blue’s Clues...Nuk, Nacks
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