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- Pastor Name: Jonathan Cornell
- Date & Time: August 16, 2015 | 10:00am
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SERMON SERIES:
Practicing Faith, Hope, and Love
I want to welcome you once again this morning. If you have been with us for the last few weeks, we are walking together through a letter in the New Testament, written by a man named Paul, to a group of people in the Macedonian City of Thessalonica. And throughout this letter, Paul takes the time to encourage them because in their lives together they display three gospel characteristics: diligent faith, labors of love, and steadfastness of hope. Throughout Paul’s letters, these are golden keys he gives to all his churches.
If you were here with us last week, you will remember that he tells them, from his own experience, that when a person stands up and chooses to follow Jesus, they will always and necessarily face some type of resistance. It may come from outside us when someone or something seeks to discourage us from following God, or it may come from within, from that inner voice telling us it’s not worth it. The question is, to whom will you listen? Will it be the voices of others, who categorize you by what you are on the outside? Or will you allow God that place, the one who calls you beloved?
The question I would like for us to wrestle with this morning is: what does it mean to walk worthily? Worthy of what? There are many things that our lives can be worthy of… Recognition? Accolades? Criticism? Honor? What does it look like to walk in a manner worthy of the gospel of God?
Download the entire transcript here: 1 Thessalonians 2 A Living Parable
