Embracing Peace and Love in a Divisive World
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "We live in a world where people are just angry, people are offended so everybody's offended. I saw this in the Washington Times: eighty-one percent of Americans agree that people are too easily offended these days. Eighty-one percent agree that means that they're part of the ones who are offended, right? So, I mean, it's like if eighty-one percent then what if eighty-one percent just quit being offended?" [25:40]
2. "People feel more comfortable with anger but if you start talking about love and joy, these things, then people get very uncomfortable. And I'm wondering why, you know, it shouldn't be. Especially here's the thing is that sometimes we think even here, right? I mean, Jesus was the Prince of Peace. He came, He did this amazing thing and He did this amazing thing and He did this amazing thing." [28:05]
3. "Could you imagine the passion and joy that would be here if just 40% of our gathering said, 'You know what, every week I'm either going to pray with someone or I'm going to pray for someone all week.' One, I'm going to do or both. Could you imagine what it would be like? I mean, if someone says, 'Man, I've been praying all week for you,' and they open that heart to receive and you know this is what God's called us to do." [52:10]
4. "Could you imagine what this place would be like if we did those two things? If just 40% of us did those two things, it would be overwhelming. You would be like, 'Wow, this is amazing.' It would change everything. It would change the face of our church." [54:40]
5. "Do not be anxious about anything but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your request come to God. Do not be anxious about anything. Wow, we live in an anxious world, don't we? I mean, people are just anxious, they're on pins and needles, they're just ready to pop any moment." [36:05]
### Quotes for Members
1. "The question is, is that well, you know, what about us? And here's the thing is I think that Christians have bought into the lie that we walk by the same guidelines, that we treat each other by the same standards that are set in our society and in our world. We have fallen into that lie really. I mean, what does it say? The lie is that Christians treat each other the same as the rest of society. That's way off base. That's not even true." [29:34]
2. "Stop giving or receiving dead criticism. What is that? Criticism that is because sometimes you can give someone criticism that can help them. Actually, I sit in a room every Monday with a group of people who actually show me what I could have done better, how this should have been done, how did that come across. Every Monday I do that because those are things that help me. Dead criticism is when you are going to someone outside of the realm that can help. You're going outside to people who are, and so what you're doing is criticizing someone without going to that person and that brings death. It brings untrust, it brings anger, it brings complete as it is a tool of the enemy himself." [39:00]
3. "If a brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. That means you know everybody else about you just go to him say, 'Hey, this is something I've experienced.' If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. In other words, you have gotten closer. When that person, when you go to that person, y'all work it out, that person's going to trust you. That person's going to say, 'Hey, I believe you know what, I trust you because if there's a situation you're going to come to me, you're not going to go to everybody else.'" [40:28]
4. "Could you imagine if that is what we all felt right when you walked in? Listen, we'd have to set up a restaurant and set up showers because nobody would go home. I mean, could you imagine just you drove in the parking lot and you just felt this peace like, 'Yes, I've made it,' right? Because you're thinking, 'Well, the world has beat me down this week with all their anger and just rage and everything that's going on, but here I've come to get built up.' That's what it's supposed to be." [34:35]
5. "We have to realize in order to be this place when you walk in you just feel that, you know, there's that well of love and you feel that wave and you're able to just share that love and you're able to just share your heart. You know, we got to let our walls down. We got to let our, I mean, and that's hard. We don't want to let our walls down, right? We don't want to share with someone what's going on in my life. I don't want to share. I want to come and I want to just go to church. I want to do the thing and I want to go home. We don't want to do that. Let our walls down because that's hard." [37:39]
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1. "We live in a world where people are just angry, people are offended so everybody's offended. I saw this in the Washington Times: eighty-one percent of Americans agree that people are too easily offended these days. Eighty-one percent agree that means that they're part of the ones who are offended, right? So, I mean, it's like if eighty-one percent then what if eighty-one percent just quit being offended?" [25:40]
2. "People feel more comfortable with anger but if you start talking about love and joy, these things, then people get very uncomfortable. And I'm wondering why, you know, it shouldn't be. Especially here's the thing is that sometimes we think even here, right? I mean, Jesus was the Prince of Peace. He came, He did this amazing thing and He did this amazing thing and He did this amazing thing." [28:05]
3. "Could you imagine the passion and joy that would be here if just 40% of our gathering said, 'You know what, every week I'm either going to pray with someone or I'm going to pray for someone all week.' One, I'm going to do or both. Could you imagine what it would be like? I mean, if someone says, 'Man, I've been praying all week for you,' and they open that heart to receive and you know this is what God's called us to do." [52:10]
4. "Could you imagine what this place would be like if we did those two things? If just 40% of us did those two things, it would be overwhelming. You would be like, 'Wow, this is amazing.' It would change everything. It would change the face of our church." [54:40]
5. "Do not be anxious about anything but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your request come to God. Do not be anxious about anything. Wow, we live in an anxious world, don't we? I mean, people are just anxious, they're on pins and needles, they're just ready to pop any moment." [36:05]
### Quotes for Members
1. "The question is, is that well, you know, what about us? And here's the thing is I think that Christians have bought into the lie that we walk by the same guidelines, that we treat each other by the same standards that are set in our society and in our world. We have fallen into that lie really. I mean, what does it say? The lie is that Christians treat each other the same as the rest of society. That's way off base. That's not even true." [29:34]
2. "Stop giving or receiving dead criticism. What is that? Criticism that is because sometimes you can give someone criticism that can help them. Actually, I sit in a room every Monday with a group of people who actually show me what I could have done better, how this should have been done, how did that come across. Every Monday I do that because those are things that help me. Dead criticism is when you are going to someone outside of the realm that can help. You're going outside to people who are, and so what you're doing is criticizing someone without going to that person and that brings death. It brings untrust, it brings anger, it brings complete as it is a tool of the enemy himself." [39:00]
3. "If a brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. That means you know everybody else about you just go to him say, 'Hey, this is something I've experienced.' If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. In other words, you have gotten closer. When that person, when you go to that person, y'all work it out, that person's going to trust you. That person's going to say, 'Hey, I believe you know what, I trust you because if there's a situation you're going to come to me, you're not going to go to everybody else.'" [40:28]
4. "Could you imagine if that is what we all felt right when you walked in? Listen, we'd have to set up a restaurant and set up showers because nobody would go home. I mean, could you imagine just you drove in the parking lot and you just felt this peace like, 'Yes, I've made it,' right? Because you're thinking, 'Well, the world has beat me down this week with all their anger and just rage and everything that's going on, but here I've come to get built up.' That's what it's supposed to be." [34:35]
5. "We have to realize in order to be this place when you walk in you just feel that, you know, there's that well of love and you feel that wave and you're able to just share that love and you're able to just share your heart. You know, we got to let our walls down. We got to let our, I mean, and that's hard. We don't want to let our walls down, right? We don't want to share with someone what's going on in my life. I don't want to share. I want to come and I want to just go to church. I want to do the thing and I want to go home. We don't want to do that. Let our walls down because that's hard." [37:39]
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