Ethos Church

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  • The Gift Of Limits // The Limit of Understanding the Gift of Gods Voice | Pastor Jordan Smucker | 07.02.23

    Outline of the Gospel

    Most people miss the voice of God not because it’s too strange but because it’s so familiar. “Why is it,” comedian Lily Tomlin asks, “that when we speak to God, we are said to be praying but when God speaks to us, we are said to be schizophrenic?” Dallas Willard wrote, “Such a response from ourselves or others to someone’s claim to have heard from God is especially likely today because of the lack of specific teaching and pastoral guidance on such matters.”


    Matthew 4:4 (NLT) - But Jesus told him, “No! The Scriptures say, ‘People do not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”



    Ethos is a life-giving community committed to keeping Jesus at its Center. We are on a mission to love all people in Jesus' name so that we may all Know God, Find Freedom, Discover Purpose, & Make a Difference.

    EthosOH.com

    Small Groups: EthosOH.com/Community

    ServeColumbus.org


    21 min
  • The Gift Of Limits // The Limit of Time, the Gift of No | Pastor Jordan Smucker | 06.25.23

    The Limit of Time, the Gift of No.

    If you want to build margin in your life so that you can do the work God meant for you to do, you have to remember that you are only human. You have limits. Psalm 119:96 says, “I have learned that everything has limits” (GNT). God is the author of your limitations. He put them there for your good—because he loves you. So rather than fighting your limits, you need to accept your limits. Sadly, as human beings we’re not very adept at recognizing our limits. We constantly overestimate our abilities and underestimate obstacles and how much time it will take to do something. On top of that, we live in a culture that constantly tells us, “You can do it all! You can have it all! You can be whatever you want!” But it’s not true. You can be all that God wants you to be, but you cannot be whatever you want to be. There are limits in your life. 


    Romans 12:3,6 - Don’t think you are better than you really are. Be honest in your evaluation of yourselves, measuring yourselves by the faith God has given us. 6 In his grace, God has given us different gifts for doing certain things well.



    Ethos is a life-giving community committed to keeping Jesus at its Center. We are on a mission to love all people in Jesus' name so that we may all Know God, Find Freedom, Discover Purpose, & Make a Difference.

    EthosOH.com

    Small Groups: EthosOH.com/Community

    ServeColumbus.org


    48 min
  • The Gift Of Limits // The Limit of Self Knowledge, the Gift of the Bible | Pastor Jordan Smucker | 06.11.23

    The Limit of Self Knowledge, the Gift of the Bible


    If you’re going to have a personal relationship with Jesus, if your religion is personal, you have to be utterly obedient to Him. Jesus says that it’s in obedience where we find freedom … Not freedom to do what we feel, or freedom from the pain of the world, but freedom to experience life as it were meant to be lived … with Jesus. The reason we’re freed by obedience and allegiance to Jesus is because we’re obeying the will of our Designer. We no longer carry the weight of trying to figure out life on our own.


    Matthew 11:28-29 (NLT) - "Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls."


    Ethos is a life-giving community committed to keeping Jesus at its Center. We are on a mission to love all people in Jesus' name so that we may all Know God, Find Freedom, Discover Purpose, & Make a Difference.

    EthosOH.com

    Small Groups: EthosOH.com/Community

    ServeColumbus.org


    46 min
  • The Gift of Limits // The Limit of Autonomy. The Gift of Freedom | Pastor Jordan Smucker | 06.04.23

    The Limit of Autonomy. The Gift of Freedom 

     

    Freedom is not the ability to do anything you want – it is the ability to accept your limits, to say no to that which robs you of what you most deeply desire. Almost everyone agrees (Christians and non-Christians) freedom is the fulfillment that comes from doing what you most deeply desire. The Bible says that only happens when you are willing to be completely dependent on God. “I will obey You and Your Word and not all of my contradictory, conflicting impulses. I will do what You say, and I know, then, I’ll find myself because I was built to obey You.” The essence of Freedom is not dos and don’ts but personal allegiance to a relationship with Jesus.


    “Oh, the joys of those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or stand around with sinners, or join in with mockers. But they delight in the law of the Lord, meditating on it day and night.”

    -Psalm 1:1-2 (NLT)-


    Ethos is a life-giving community committed to keeping Jesus at its Center. We are on a mission to love all people in Jesus' name so that we may all Know God, Find Freedom, Discover Purpose, & Make a Difference.

    EthosOH.com

    Small Groups: EthosOH.com/Community

    ServeColumbus.org


    48 min
  • Relational Reformation // Spiritually Healthy Community | Andrea Plummer | 05.28.23

    Spiritually Healthy Community

     

    Healthy community was something that Jesus prayed for us, His future Church, to have and to be a part of. Just as He had with His Father and the Spirit. Because of this prayer, healthy community is available to us by way of the Holy Spirit, and we get to operate in it today, if we choose to. Spiritually healthy community takes work and is not easy. It calls us to be honest, broken, and vulnerable; giving space for the Spirit to work in and for us. However, in the same breath, we are called to be a safe space that responds in love to those who come to us and require us to be a safe space for them.


    “Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God.”

    -1 John 4:7 (NLT)-


    Ethos is a life-giving community committed to keeping Jesus at its Center. We are on a mission to love all people in Jesus' name so that we may all Know God, Find Freedom, Discover Purpose, & Make a Difference.

    EthosOH.com

    Small Groups: EthosOH.com/Community

    ServeColumbus.org


    39 min

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