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Entice: Oh, how the connections have been stressed!
After a decade of moving our lives to social media the pandemic has reminded us of how essential real connections are.
In business, family, social, and Church circles many people got tired of virtual connection.
As humans we crave the real thing.
Jesus teaches us that our connection to Him and one another is the essence of Christian living.
Engage: Our connection to Jesus nourishes us.
Our connection to one another circulates that nourishment from person to person.
Congregation to congregation.
Age to age.
Faith to faith.
Expand: When Jesus uses the "I am" to proclaim His divinity He commonly connects that claim to a historic, Biblical claim of God upon His people.
Jesus is God with us who makes the symbol concrete.
Light and water remind us of the nourishing virtue of God's revealed truth.
Flock reminds us of the concern God has for His people.
God as vinedresser & Jesus as the vine remind us that our life is found in
connection to God.
Excite: When we are connected, we flourish.
When we are connected, we mature.
When we are connected, we are strengthened.
Explore:
We must be connected to Jesus to share in the vitality of His life.
Explain: Jesus describes how our connection with God is made known.
Body of Sermon: When we are connected to Jesus we are
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Known by our Fruit.
1.1 Proper relationship.
Abiding.
Pruning.
Being cleaned.
Bringing glory to the Father.
1.2 Proper nourishment
1.3 Proper harvest
When we are connected to Jesus we are
2. Known by our Love.
2.1 Love should fill us with joy.
2.2 Love should focus our obedience.
2.3 Love should fortify our discipleship.
When we are connected to Jesus we are
3. Known by our Resilience.
3.1 Hated by the world.
3.2 Enabled by Jesus.
4. Known by our Witness.
4.1 Empowered by the Holy Spirit.
Paraclete
Sent
Spirit of truth
Proceeding from the Father.
Pointing to Jesus.
4.2 Executed by resilient, loving, fruit-bearing disciples!
Shut Down:
We don't bear fruit to be saved...but because we are.
We love in the midst of hatred because we are changed.
When we are resilient and loving while hated we extend the ministry of Jesus in our time and place.
All of this is empowered by the comforting Holy Spirit sent by Jesus, proceeding from God.
Salvation is a wonderful gift.
The Christian life is an opportunity and a responsibility.
The opportunity to grow in our connected relationship with Jesus.
The responsibility of living a with loving persistence in the midst of the worlds opposition to us.
It is our joy; it is our privilege.
It is our status as a part of God's flourishing vineyard.
That is God's Word for us today.
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