Hey, this is Michael Beckia with brilliant perspectives and welcome to this

podcast episode titled a Community of Love and Grace. It's a short excerpt

from Graham series The Church has left the building,

and it addresses what the Church should look like as a community of love and of grace.

Though it's a brief clip, Graham offers some grounding perspectives,

discussing how we as individuals were made to reflect

the Trinitarian communal heart of God, and in turn be placed in a larger body, the church,

to reflect and offer God's restorative and redemptive qualities to society around this.

Enjoy.

Why is it do you think that when God hears the world he hears something different than we do?

We serve someone who listens to the secret things in our hearts.

It doesn't listen to the image that we give out.

It doesn't listen to the image that we give out. It doesn't listen to the stuff that we say to bolster our

confidence or make ourselves look good. It's so much better than that. He doesn't listen to the cussing and the swearing

and the language we use when we're angry or anything else,

or defending ourselves or lying.

Now God who ever lives to make intercession, he listens to different things.

He listens to different things.

He listens to the longings.

He listens to the hunger.

He listens to the cries in people's hearts. The unspoken prayers that people don't really think

are prayers at all, except that they are because to a loving gracious merciful God he's listening.

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