We Want You Here: Growing in Love - Jon Tyson

Church of the City New York

COTC NYC

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🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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This Sunday, Pastor Jon kicked off our Eastertide sermon series, "We Want You Here," with a discussion of how we can grow in love. He broke down the four stages of Christian love described by medieval theologian Bernard of Clairvaux, and summarized them as “me, my, you, and us.” As we move through these stages, the goal is to grow in deeper union with our Father.

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0:00.0	How's it going, everyone?
0:09.0	I'm Stephen.
0:10.0	I lead the safety team here at church.
0:12.0	Thank you.
0:13.0	It's an honor to be here with you all today.
0:15.0	Our teaching text this afternoon is from 1 John 4, verse 16 through 19.
0:20.0	God is love.
0:21.7	Whoever lives in love lives in God and God in them.
0:26.3	This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment.
0:32.7	In this world, we are like Jesus.
0:35.0	There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear because fear
0:39.9	has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. We love because he first
0:46.6	loved us. This is the word of the Lord. Good evening. What I want to do tonight is continue on from the message I gave last week
0:59.8	for re-step. I want to basically cast a vision of what life with God actually looks like, a journey
1:06.7	with God. We do best when we know we're making progress in our lives. The nature of addiction
1:15.6	is repeated behavior without advancement. Do the same thing again and again and again. You don't
1:21.3	get anywhere. We grow up. Our natural growth happens. It's clear, we get a sense that we're moving along nicely.
1:31.0	This happens physically, we're little, we get bigger, and when you get older, you get wider.
1:37.3	It's amazing, you can just tell.
1:39.4	Why are you laughing?
1:50.1	We grow through school, We start out in kindergarten. You go to first grade and they have all of those ceremonies to let you know you've closed one season and you've entered the next
1:55.1	stage of your life. This happens in college. You pick a major. You get internships. You graduate.
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