Wake Up and Walk in Love
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The document discusses how to live a life of love as followers of Christ. It encourages observing how Christ extravagantly loved others without expectation of receiving anything in return. Followers of Christ are called to keep company with God, learn from God's example of love, and avoid using religion, people, or things simply for personal gain, which displeases God. Believers should instead focus on doing what pleases Christ by living in the light through loving others.
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Wake Up and Walk in Love
- 2. Wake Up from Your Sleep Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents. Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love.
- 3. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn't love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that.
- 4. Don't allow love to turn into lust, setting off a downhill slide into sexual promiscuity, filthy practices, or bullying greed. Though some tongues just love the taste of gossip,
- 5. those who follow Jesus have better uses for language than that. Don't talk dirty or silly. That kind of talk doesn't fit our style. Thanksgiving is our dialect.
- 6. You can be sure that using people or religion or things just for what you can get out of them—the usual variations on idolatry—will get you nowhere, and certainly nowhere near the kingdom of Christ, the kingdom of God.
- 7. Don't let yourselves get taken in by religious smooth talk. God gets furious with people who are full of religious sales talk but want nothing to do with him. Don't even hang around people like that.
- 8. You groped your way through that murk once, but no longer. You're out in the open now. The bright light of Christ makes your way plain. So no more stumbling around. Get on with it!
- 9. The good, the right, the true— these are the actions appropriate for daylight hours. Figure out what will please Christ, and then do it.
- 11. Every disciple adopting the posture, thinking, behaviors, and practices of a Missional missionary in order to engage others with the gospel message.
- 12. The primary way that people who are far from God get connected to God is through the lifestyle Relational and relationship that they have with disciples of Jesus Christ
- 13. Embodying the love and compassion of Christ by serving the needs of the Incarnational people and community around you.
- 14. Missional DISCIPLE Relational Incarnational
- 17. Wake Up from Your Sleep Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents. Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love..
- 18. Missional DISCIPLE Relational Incarnational
- 19. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn't love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that.
- 23. LOVE is Engaged
- 24. The Unforgiving Angry Bitter Backbiting Seeks Revenge Spiteful Sabatier Malicious
- 28. You groped your way through that murk once, but no longer. You're out in the open now. The bright light of Christ makes your way plain. So no more stumbling around. Get on with it! The good, the right, the true—these are the actions appropriate for daylight hours. Figure out what will please Christ, and then do it.
Editor's Notes
- The Church of the 20th Century was very much like building a bonfireYou get a lot of wood and gather it in one place and then light the fireIf you needed light you had to be at the bonfireIf you needed heat you had to be at the bonfireIf you needed bible study you had to be at the churchIf you needed prayer you had to come to the church If you were going to do outreach it was organized at the churchIf you were going to fellowship with other Christians it was at the churchThis was the ABC that used Attendance Buildings and Cash to validate their health
- The Missional Lifestyle is more like a match Each believer is discipled toward maturity and when the believer becomes a disciple he or she catches on fire and shares their fire with someone else.Now you are responsible for telling someone else about Jesus ChristNow you provide pastoral care to non believers as their journey toward believingNow the most powerful ministry is done outside of the church You no longer walk in darkness because you are carrying the lightThis is where we connect with the text
- Children do not grow up strong, healthy,, emotionally balanced and spiritually in touch with Jesus unless the parents are strong, healthy, emotionally balanced and spiritually in touch with JesusToo many new Christians have their spiritual development stunted by old Christians who model bad behaviorToo many people in church have become good church people but have lost sight of being a Disciple of Jesus Christ.
- We are blessed to be a blessingWe serve as an act of worship to honor God’s people who are hurting, marginalized and on the fringe.We serve as an act of worship to honor God for the blessings that we have receivedWe serve as an offering of ourselves sacrificially like Jesus offered himself up for usWe do not serve at our convenience but at God’s invitation.
- Rudy Rasmus
- Rudy Rasmus
- Rudy Rasmus: devotion to the truth : truthfulness2: power of conveying or perceiving truth
- Rudy Rasmus
- Some people have been hurt deeplySomebody defamed your characterSomebody violated your trustSomebody molested you when you were youngSomebody borrowed money and has never paid it back
- It is not about your pass failuresIt is not about what other people think of youIf you never forgive the offender you are giving that person power over you. The power of God cannot flow through you to achieve all that God created you to do as long as you have given someone else power over the light switch
- When you forgive yourself and then forgive others you are able to truly be the light of Christ and give yourself fully to serving the needs of others.