Several weeks ago during the Sunday morning welcome, I read the Message version of John 3:16-18 This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn't go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person's failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him.
Then showed the following video to emphasize the point that we must continually guard against the notion that to seclude ourselves from those that are different than us or from, if you will, "the world" is somehow how God intended it to be. Rather, embrace our differences and take every opportunity to speak life in the name of Jesus.
Bubble Creek Canyon
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