Pursuing Jesus

 When we let God work in us and through us, God will do things that cause the people around us to ask questions. When they ask questions, we can point them to Jesus.

 When Peter and John went to the Temple to pray, they SAW a man in need. They couldn't give him what he wanted, but they gave him what he needed.

Submission is very unpopular - except maybe when we're the ones being submitted to. What's the Bible have to say about it? When we consider the whole picture we see both the usefulness of submission and the ways God challenges it.

Abraham didn't know where he was going or exactly what was in store for him. He went with God anyway. Matt Mooneyham preaching

 When Judas killed himself, there was a gap in the fellowship of the 12. They needed someone to fill the gap. What if someone had filled the gap in Judas' life after he betrayed Jesus? What would happen if we filled in the gap for people around us?

 We feel torn: We see people around us who are broken and hurting. We feel the need to help them, even to fix them. But we have two problems. First, in Matthew 7:1-6 Jesus clearly says,, "Do not judge." Second, we ourselves aren't keen on people trying to fix us. In this message we work through this conundrum.

In Acts 1, the disciples were excited with the prospect of Jesus "restoring the kingdom to Israel." They discover that Jesus had other things in mind.

The picture of spiritual gifts in Ephesians 4 is slightly different than what we see in 1 Corinthians 12 & Romans 12. In those passages the focus is on gifts given to people. In Ephesians the focus is on the people as gifts to the church.

 In 1 John 3:11-24 we see that Jesus is the measure of love: what it is, how to do it, and to whom we show it.

 Can you imagine being holy? God calls us to be holy - and wants to do the work in us. Based on 1 Peter 1:13-25