The document discusses developing a heart like God's heart, which involves having compassion for those who are far from God, just as God seeks out the lost. It notes that Jesus came to seek and save the lost, and that a truly spiritually mature person, like Jesus, will want to reach out to people far from God rather than excluding them. Developing a heart for all people, including those far from us, is important in order to truly love God.

1. Developing a
Heart Like
God’s Heart
Josh Hunt,
Presenter

2. What do you
think about when
you don’t have
anything to think
about?

3. For as he
thinketh in his
heart, so is he.
Proverbs 23:7
(KJV)

4. What do you
think God
thinks about?

5. Suppose one of you has
a hundred sheep and
loses one of them. Does
he not leave the ninety-
nine in the open country
and go after the lost
sheep until he finds it?
Luke 15:4

7. Or suppose a woman
has ten silver coins
and loses one. Does
she not light a lamp,
sweep the house and
search carefully until
she finds it?
Luke 15:8

9. But while he was still a
long way off, his father
saw him and was filled
with compassion for
him; he ran to his son,
threw his arms around
him and kissed him.
Luke 15:20

10. The son started his
speech: “Father, I’ve
sinned against God,
I’ve sinned before you;
I don't deserve to be
called your son ever
again.”
Luke 15:21 (MSG)

11. But the father wasn't
listening. He was calling to
the servants, “Quick. Bring a
clean set of clothes and
dress him. Put the family
ring on his finger and
sandals on his feet.”
Luke 15:22 (MSG)

12. It is impossible
to love the
Father without
sharing His heart
for those who
are far from Him.

13. Who is the
most spiritually
mature person
who ever lived?

14. For the Son of
Man came to
seek and to save
what was lost.
Luke 19:10

15. The Son of Man came
eating and drinking,
and you say, “Here is
a glutton and a
drunkard, a friend of
tax collectors and
‘sinners.’”
Luke 7:34

16. Jesus answered them, “It
is not the healthy who
need a doctor, but the
sick. I have not come to
call the righteous, but
sinners to repentance.”
Luke 5:31-32

17. Sin:
the desire
to exclude.

18. God:
the desire
to embrace

19. “A church has to choose
between being a place
that can attract seekers
or
being a place that can
help people become
spiritually mature.”

20. The more
spiritually mature
you are, the more
you will want to
reach out to
people who are far
from God.

21. “We cannot have
one posture
toward God, and
a different one
toward other
people.”

22. If anyone says, “I love
God,” yet hates his
brother, he is a liar. For
anyone who does not
love his brother, whom
he has seen, cannot
love God, whom he
has not seen.
1 John 4:20

23. For if you forgive
men when they sin
against you, your
heavenly Father will
also forgive you.
Matthew 6:14

24. It is psychologically
impossible for you to
desire to live in grace
and forgiveness and
not want it for others.
- John Ortberg

25. “Some have created
models of Christian
growth that suggest
that we can have one
attitude toward God
and another toward
those who are far
from him.”

26. “When we do that we
make Christianity
repulsive to people
on the outside and
sometimes to people
who go to church.”
-John Ortberg

27. Some actually
prefer not to be
around sinners.

28. People here in
Oklahoma,
they are kind of
hard to love.

29. Some think this
tendency to not
be around
sinners is a sign
of their maturity.

30. Lifesaving Museum, Nantucket, Massachusetts

38. Jesus is still
looking for people
who will go into the
life-saving
business.

39. How is your
heart for
people who are
far from Him?