THERE IS MORE – OUTSIDE OUR WALLS

THERE IS MORE – OUTSIDE OUR WALLS

² Enlarge your house; build an addition. Spread out your home and spare no expense! ³ For you will soon be bursting at the seams.”

Isaiah 54:2-3

¹⁸ Jesus came and told his disciples, “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. ¹⁹ Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. ²⁰ Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

Matthew 28:18-20

CURRENT STATUS

• God loves .

¹⁶ “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.”

John 3:16

• Our world is .

²² For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.”

Romans 8:22

• God has for our world.

⁹ But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God’s very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light.”

I Peter 2:9

Guiding truth: God’s plan for the world is His people .

¹⁶ So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How differently we know him now! ¹⁷ This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!

¹⁸ And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to him.”

II Corinthians 5:16-18

HOW DO WE LIVE OUT GOD’S PLAN?

        1.  people with eyes of .

²⁷ So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.”

Genesis 1:27

DAILY PRAYER: God Help me see others as .

        2.   people .

⁴⁸ Great gifts mean great responsibilities: greater gifts, greater responsibilities!

Luke 12:48 (MSG)

Daily reflection: Who can I today?

• : family and friends.
• : co-workers and classmates
• : hobbies, coffee shops and sports.

20  we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!”

II Corinthians 5:20

“No one ever served God by doing things tomorrow.”

― Charles Spurgeon

        3.   people the .

¹⁶ You didn’t choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name.”

John 15:16

“I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.”

― Mother Teresa