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- Pastor Name: Jonathan Cornell
- Date & Time: August 2, 2015 | 10:00am
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SERMON SERIES:
Practicing Faith, Hope, and Love
I want to open with this question: what would be the very best thing someone could say about us as a community? Take a moment to think about that question. Now turn to your neighbor and tell them what you think the very best thing that someone could say about us. Ready, Set, Go.
If you weren’t here a few weeks ago, I want to let you know that for the next 5 weeks, we’ll be journeying together through Paul’s first letter to a church in the city of Thessalonica, that Greek crossroad city. Paul’s prayer for the people of Thessalonica, and I believe the Spirit’s intention for us, the readers of this letter, is to grow as people who display the Christ-like characteristics of strength of faith, steadfastness of hope, and abounding in love.
But how do we get there when our community continues to grow and shift, and the culture that surrounds us is so unpredictable? How do we get there when I still struggle with weights and burdens, hopes and anticipations in my own life, especially when what I’m going through might be very different from the person sitting down the row from me? These are questions that are intimately relatable to us, no?
Download the entire transcript here: 1 Thessalonians 1 1-10 Resonating with Christ
