The document discusses how God seeks a church after His own heart that is obedient through love rather than confrontation. It provides examples from Jesus, Aquila and Priscilla, Stephen, and Paul on how to prioritize obedience to God, encouragement over confrontation, helping people through acts of service, and faithful outreach balanced with faithfulness to God's commands. The overall message is that God desires His church to be faithful in every way through balanced, Christ-like living.

1. A Church After
God’s Own Heart
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2. 1 Samuel 13:14
[14] “But now your kingdom
shall not endure. The LORD
has sought out for Himself a
man after His own heart, and
the LORD has appointed him

3. 1 Samuel 13:14
as ruler over His people,
because you have not
kept what the LORD
commanded you.”

4. Matthew 22:15-22
The Wisdom of Jesus
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5. Jesus
caught the
Pharisees
in a false
choice.

6. What Does God Want
Our Goals to Be?

7. 1) Obedience or
love and joy?

8. Matthew 22:37
(37) ‘You shall love the
Lord your God with
all your heart, and with
all your soul, and with
all your mind.’

9. Matthew 7:21
(21) Not everyone who
says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’
will enter the kingdom of
heaven, but he who does
the will of My Father who is
in in heaven will enter.

10. An
example:
Jesus
Himself

11. John 14:31
(31) but so that the world
may know that I love the
Father, I do exactly as the
Father commanded Me. …

12. 2) Confrontation or
encouragement?

13. Matthew 23:13
(13) Woe to you, scribes
and Pharisees, hypocrites,
because you shut off
the kingdom of heaven
from people;

14. Matthew 23:13
For you do not enter in
yourselves, nor do you
allow those who are
entering to go in.

15. Matthew 11:28
(28) Come to Me, all who
are weary and heavy-laden,
and I will give you rest.

16. An
example:
Aquila and
Priscilla

17. 3) Teach people or
help people?

18. Matthew 28:19-20
(19) Go therefore and make
disciples of all the nations,
baptizing them in the name
of the Father and the Son
and the Holy Spirit,

19. Matthew 28:19-20
(20) teaching them to
observe all that I
commanded you; and lo,
I am with you always,
even to the end of the age.

20. Luke 10:30-37
The Parable of the
Good Samaritan

21. An
example:
Stephen

22. 4) Outreach or
faithfulness to God?

23. Matthew 5:13-16
(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.

24. Matthew 5:19
(19) Whoever then annuls
one of the least of these
commandments, and
teaches others to do the
same, shall be called least
in the kingdom of heaven,

25. Matthew 5:19
but whoever keeps and
teaches them, he shall be
called great in the
kingdom of heaven.

26. An
example:
Paul

27. Navigating a
World of Extremes
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28. God desires us to be
faithful in every way!
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