Restoration Church Toowoomba Sermon Podcast

The question is not 'Are you a disciple?' but 'Who's disciple are you?' Difff discusses this and asks you to examine who or what it is that you follow. We all follow someone or something.

Discipleship cannot be separated from Christianity, just as loving Christ cannot be separated from loving others. Difff discusses this and encourages us to make community driven discipleship part of our lives.

Peter explains how we can incarnate Jesus to our culture in a similar way that He did in His cultural context.

Jesus objective was to create a people who would unite under His lordship and be distinct from their culture. Peter looks at the first instance of the early church at pentecost and compares that to how we do church today.

A balanced relationship with God involves three aspects: loving God, knowing God and being known by God. Peter talk about how to develop each of these in your own life.

Richard explains how God's mercy and holiness are inseparable in the Old Testament sacrificial system, and encourages us not to separate them in our dealings with people.

James shares from 2 Kings chapter 5. He encourages us not to follow Naaman's example of expecting God to act and work the way we dictate.

James encourages us to listen to Jesus in 2013, and follow his lead.

One of the consequences of sin is that it isolates people from God and each other. Loneliness as a human experience began in the Garden of Eden and continues to be part of our lives. Loneliness ends when the isolated person is no longer alone - Immanuel, God with us.