Selfless, Part 1: Bold in Witness

Life.Church with Craig Groeschel

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🗓️ 7 January 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

When you serve more, you take less. When you give more, you need less. When you thank more, you want less. When there’s more of God, you’re Selfless.

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0:30.0	Hey big happy new year to all of you today. I am incredibly excited for so many reasons
0:50.6	first of all. It was 22 years ago on this day on a snowy Sunday morning that we gathered
0:58.2	with about 40 people in a two car garage for the very first time to worship together at what is
1:04.4	now called life church and now 22 years later on this day we are celebrating literally hundreds
1:11.2	and hundreds and hundreds of people expressing obedience to God through baptism celebrating new
1:17.3	life in Christ. I give God praise and honor today. We get to be a part of something so incredibly
1:23.3	special. I just want to say to every single one of you that are being baptized I thank God for you. I
1:30.6	celebrate your story. Everyone has a powerful story and I just wanted to highlight just three today
1:38.0	out of real rancho New Mexico life church angel who battled with depression and suicidal thoughts
1:45.4	is now completely set free angel. Congratulations on a life transform by the grace of Jesus.
1:51.8	Real Rancho also cursed in from Keller Texas no longer practicing wick a completely transformed
1:59.8	overcoming addiction. We celebrate with you, cursed in new life in Christ and one also out
2:06.4	out of Fort Worth Texas. We thank God one that you are free from your addiction to alcohol. You are
2:12.0	completely clean and sober today going public with your faith. Can you all help me just thank God
2:17.9	for hundreds and hundreds of stories new life all over because of Christ. I also love this weekend
2:26.2	because it's the first weekend of a new year. How many of you have New Year's resolutions? Do you
2:31.3	have goals? You want something to be different this year? I hope that you do. It's interesting to
2:36.0	me when you think about it most of the time when we make New Year's resolutions most of them are more
2:43.0	self-centered in nature. Not an entirely bad thing just an observation. In other words,
2:47.9	some of you might say I want to lose weight this year or I want to eat better this year or I want
2:53.7	to keep my house cleaner this year or I want to get rid of our cats this year. I don't know what
2:57.8	it might be for you but a lot of times our goals they are more about us than anything else. The
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