Love God: It’s All about Relationship - July 9th
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🗓️ 9 July 2018
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Summary
This week we’re going to focus on the simplicity the Christian life is meant to be marked by. Jesus summed up our purpose with two statements: love God and love people. But in our humanity we have made complex what God designed to be peaceful, purposeful, and simple.
The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. If we would find God amid all the religious externals, we must first determine to find Him, and then proceed in the way of simplicity.” May we discover the peace and joy that come from pursuing a simple Christianity this week.
Our Scripture for today comes from Matthew 22:37-38, and today's worship is Only Jesus by Brian & Jenn Johnson.
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| 0:00.0 | This week in the First of Team Podcast, we're going to focus on the simplicity the Christian life is meant to be marked by. |
| 0:11.0 | Jesus summed up our purpose with two statements, love God and love |
| 0:15.6 | people. But in our humanity we have made complex what God designed to be |
| 0:20.7 | peaceful, purposeful, and simple. |
| 0:24.0 | A.W. Tosa remarks in the pursuit of God. |
| 0:26.8 | Every age has its own characteristics, and right now we are in an age of religious complexity. The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely |
| 0:34.9 | found among us. In its stead are programs, methods, organizations, in a world of |
| 0:41.2 | nervous activities which occupy time and attention but can never satisfy the longing of the heart. The shallowness of our inner experience, the holiness of our worship, and that servile imitation of the world which marks our promotional |
| 0:55.2 | methods all testify that we in this day know God only imperfectly and the peace of God |
| 1:01.2 | scarcely at all. |
| 1:03.0 | If we would find God amid all the religious externals, |
| 1:06.0 | we must first determine to find Him |
| 1:08.0 | and then proceed in the way of simplicity. |
| 1:11.0 | May you and I discover the peace and joy that comes from pursuing a simple |
| 1:14.8 | Christianity this week. Welcome to the First of Team podcast. Our scripture for today comes from Matthew 22, 37 through 38. In it Jesus says, |
| 1:36.0 | You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. |
| 1:42.0 | This is the great and first commandment. |
| 1:47.0 | The world we live in is an exhausted place. |
| 1:50.0 | We search constantly for what should be most important or what deserves our attention from moment to moment. |
| 1:56.0 | As the tides of societal values ebb and flow, so do our affections. |
| 2:02.0 | We invest value in love into that which offers us nothing in return. |
| 2:06.8 | And unfortunately, the cares of this world have creeped into the people of God. |
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