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Proverbs 3:5-6

Being faithful to someone else, to truly trust someone, you have to be 100% in. And you get there in two different ways: through love, and humility.

There’s an expression, “let go, and let God.” But this isn’t a one-time decision. God is 100% in - it’s up to us to take that step to match him, over and over again. Are we 100% in, or not?

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A member who remembers growing up with separate schools and water fountains wonders about how long the process will take before full racial healing is reached. The group talks about the process of doing work on yourself, what it means to try and become someone who brings about change, and how we need to pass things on to the next generation after us.

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A nice moment in the snow finishes with disaster at the house. Ken comes to us from his destroyed garage to talk about how the love of God we show should be an outpouring of the love we have inside us.

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Jesus tells the people to “love one another” - telling them to love as HE has loved THEM. It raises the stakes, because the only way they could do that is by God’s grace.

She proposes a new hashtag: #loveisourlogo

As we look at this week’s spiritual, “Lord I Want To Be A Christian,” the slaves who wrote the lyrics understood that the love that Jesus was offering was different from the love that they were seeing in action.

The love mentioned is the love that eradicates injustice, one that shows up and is present to others, even in the messiness of life. It is our charge to show that kind of love to others.

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A listener confides that the way the Bible pushes “the fear of God” terrifies them – is that supposed to be the point? The group discusses some of the roots of the term in the Bible, how Jesus fits into all this, and the way we need to be aware of people’s experience when talking about the Bible.

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The community created in Acts speaks to something powerful in us that has been intended from the very beginning. We need each other. We need these deep relationships - they are a fulfillment God intended.

Pandemic has made us long for these things, as they are harder to get. But it doesn’t mean we can’t explore ways to go deeper.

What spaces can YOU create?

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A question asking about whether brokenness is a good thing or not takes the group all over the Bible, through Old Testament and New, as they discuss the various ways God combats brokenness in the Scriptures, and what it is that he desires for us.

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Ken learned by accident that his wife Whitney is much funnier than he is. And that’s partially because Whitney is always willing to tell the truth.

That truth-telling needs to translate into our own lives. Our message needs to be that everyone, no matter who they are, step into the space and hear, “you have worth.”

And no matter what the world throws at us, we are called to endure. And we can have hope, because we know that God will restore.

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The group sorts through the various ways Scripture is viewed by modern-day Christians, try to differentiate between historical events and metaphorical stories, and knock down some common misconceptions.

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We are at a moment, a decision point. Because the world has changed. And coming out of this moment, there are things that are going to need pruning.

But pruning means that growth can happen. Pruning means that fruit can go stronger.

Being a peacekeeper is difficult - yet it’s touching something eternal. Jesus calls us to be peacekeepers in the middle of hate, and that’s hard. But it’s always worth it.

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