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Sermons – Flood Church Malawi

SERIES NAME: HERE FOR IT
BOTTOM LINE: BEING A PRESENT COMMUNITY IN THE CITY FOR GOD’S KINGDOM
SERIES SUMMARY:
There are three ways we can choose to live our lives as a community in this city. We can choose to first of all live a life of reclusion. This is when we build walls around us to isolate ourselves. Often driven by fear.

Secondly, we can choose to live a life of retaliation, often driven by a need to win. This is when we desire to conquer the world with crafty arguments. When we choose to retaliate, we tend to develop an attitude of blaming others and correcting their faults. By doing this, people begin to see us as disagreeable and argumentative. This easily creates ‘them vs. us’ scenarios, which are never helpful.
Thirdly, we can choose to live a life of reconciliation, driven by a desire to bring healing to the world. This mirrors the teachings of Jesus, embracing the approach of not counting people’s failures against them. It involves tearing down walls instead of building them, allowing others to come in. It’s about repairing broken relationships with those around us. This is the way of the incarnation where we don’t live as though we are of the world but living in the world for Jesus.