Session 3B: Instigating Change through Personal Sacrifice, Bryan Loritts

14 August 2014 2:44 PM

• Matthew 25:31-46 – a terrifying passage
• drink deeply from the life of William Wilberforce
• freedom of new life in Jesus against a nation making money from slavery
• John Newton, a past slave trade person, grabbed by God (“Amazing Grace”)
• “your vocation can be a viable venue to advance the meaningful things of life”
• “do not relegate leadership to a theory”
• “The blessings of God were not meant to be hoarded”
• “Naked we came into this world. Naked we shall return.”
• We need to share with people in need
• In Jesus’ organization the entrance is being saved by grace through faith
• Genesis 15: Abram – he believed God and it was credited as righteousness
• God opened the Red Sea first for the Israelites and then gave them law
• It’s not that we have to…we GET TO!
• FRUIT is what shows our faith
• Everyone should look in the rear view mirror and see that we aren’t there yet, but we are changing
• Salvation is a mystery
• “This text is not the root of salvation but the root of salvation”
• God has a heart for the orphan, widow, alien, and the poor
• We are not following God’s heart if we are not doing things to help the orphan, widow, alien, and the poor
• leave margins in our budget to generously and spontaneously give to those in need
• Enough? How much is enough?
• You know what joy is? Joy is helping to pay someone’s medical bill?
• “refuse to use the perks for your own selfish advantage”

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