Reaching Out Together - Part 2

Pastor Rick's Daily Hope

Pastor Rick's

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The most effective way to let other people know about the great things that God can do in their lives is to tell them the story of what God has done in your life. In this message, Pastor Rick discusses the steps you need to take to prepare yourself to share your story with others.

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0:00.0	This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren.
0:07.0	Today, we continue in a series called Better Together.
0:11.0	In this series, Rick takes us through 1 Corinthians chapter 13 and shows us how to cultivate deep, meaningful relationships with the people around us.
0:22.0	In just a few moments, we're going to tell you how you can get a copy of Pastor Rick's book called God's Power to Change Your Life.
0:30.0	In it, you'll discover how God provides the power you need to take you from where you are to where you want to be.
0:38.0	Find out more by going to PastorRick.com or by texting the word daily to 800-600-5,000-4 while you listen to today's message.
0:49.0	That's PastorRick.com or the word daily to 800-600-5,000-4.
0:56.0	Right now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with the final part of a message called reaching out together.
1:07.0	Christians tend to fall into one of two extremes, either imitation or isolation.
1:14.0	Isolation or imitation. On one hand, some Christians become isolationists and they say,
1:20.0	you know what? I don't want to get polluted by the world. I don't want to get dirtyed by the world.
1:24.0	I don't want to get my life messed up by the world. So I'm just going to isolate myself and I'll build a wall and I'll build my own little culture.
1:30.0	And we'll have our church culture and our school culture and our family culture.
1:34.0	And we're not going to let anybody get out there in the world because we don't want to get dirtyed by those people.
1:41.0	Well, those people, the people Jesus Christ, died for, friend.
1:45.0	And so isolation doesn't work where you just build your own little culture and you stay far away from the world.
1:50.0	How are you going to build any friendships that way? That's wrong.
1:54.0	The other way is the other extreme, which is imitation, which says, let's just be just like the world.
1:59.0	We'll say whatever we want to do, we'll have the same values, the same goals in life. We'll be no different from the world.
2:05.0	Well, that's not what God wants you to be either where you just give in and give in to all of the lowest common denominator in society.
2:13.0	That's not it either. The answer is not isolation. Let's just stay away from everybody who's not a believer.
2:19.0	And it's not imitation. Let's just act like everybody else.
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