WHAT’S NEXT? | PART 1 – MY SPIRITUAL JOURNEY

WHAT’S NEXT? | PART 1 – MY SPIRITUAL JOURNEY | 04.11.21

Proverbs 29:18 (MSG) If people can’t see what God is doing, they stumble all over themselves; but when they attend to what he reveals, they are most blessed.

MY SPIRITUAL JOURNEY

1.  God.

γινώσκω (ginōskō)

To know .

God isn’t looking for .  He’s looking for .

1 John 2:3 (NIV)  We know that we have come to know him if we keep his commands.

Matthew 22:37–40 (NIV) Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

John 13:34–35 (NIV)  “Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another.  By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

1 John 3:18–19 (NIV) Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence:

1 John 4:7–8 (NIV) Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

What’s Next?: your life to Jesus.

Romans 10:9 (NIV) If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

What’s Next?: Be .

Acts 2:41 (NIV) Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.

What’s Next?: to a local .

Psalm 92:12–13 (NIV) The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon; planted in the house of the Lord, they will flourish in the courts of our God.

Ephesians 2:19 (LB) …You are a member of God’s very own family… and you belong in God’s household with every other Christian.

2.  Find .

James 5:16 (NIV)  Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. 

What’s Next?: Join a . www.olc.church/groups

3.  Discover .

Ephesians 2:10 (NLT) For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.

What’s Next?: Complete the . www.olc.church/discover

1 Peter 4:10 (NLT)  God has given gifts to each of you from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Manage them well so that God’s generosity can flow through you.

4.  Make a .

What’s Next?: Join the . www.olc.church/dreamteam

John 15:8,11 (NIV)  This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.  I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.

WATER BAPTISM

Matthew 28:19 (NIV) Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

1 Peter 3:21 (TLB) In baptism we show that we have been saved from death and doom by the resurrection of Christ; not because our bodies are washed clean by the water but because in being baptized we are turning to God and asking him to cleanse our hearts from sin.

“Water Baptism is a declaration of my in Jesus Christ.”

Matthew 10:32–33 (NIV) “Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven. But whoever disowns me before others, I will disown before my Father in heaven.

Acts 2:38 (NIV) Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you…

Today we will be celebrating with a water baptisms immediately following the 11am service.

For more info please visit: www.olc.church/baptism