Guarding Our Hearts with Sincere Love in Christ

### Quotes for Outreach

1. "We don't claim to be a perfect church. Far from it. We just claim to have a perfect God. And so as you come here today, if you're feeling like you're imperfect or that you maybe don't belong around our body of Christ, well, fit right in. Not a group of perfect people around here. We just have the one that comes to conquer imperfections and welcome us into the world. Into a relationship with Him through His work on the cross, not our work." [05:26](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "Wherever you're coming from this week, whether you're coming from a great week or a hard week, when you're feeling encouraged or discouraged, we're excited that you're here. And I trust that our Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, is going to meet you exactly where you're at. That's what he loves to do. To come to meet you where you're at, in the messes or the successes, and speak into your life." [08:21](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "There's a lot of brokenness in the world. We get to see it. We're impacted by it. We experience it in our relationships and even within ourselves many times. There's a lot of brokenness. And as Christians, we certainly have the solution to the world's problem, no doubt. To our sin, to unforgiveness, to bitterness, to despair. The solution is Jesus. The person Jesus. And it's an incredible thing to know Jesus. And to know that... You know, to know the one that can bring healing to every heart. That can be, you know, bring comfort in all circumstances. The one that can offer relationship." [36:56](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "People around us... We don't just need to hear about Jesus. We also need to experience Jesus. We're not peddlers of God's Word. We're a people of sincerity that are commissioned by God. And we go to speak in Christ. It's so easy to lose our sincerity, isn't it? To lose focus of what's at stake. To get busy and to go through the motions. But to approach people with... A sincere love. It's so important. Because we're not peddlers." [37:37](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "Did you know, church, that God is sufficient for you? His grace is sufficient for you. And if you're afraid and your ego feels huge or you feel like you're weak in these areas or it's just always turning faith about yourself in whatever way, your weakness is not even a hurdle to God, it's a doorway for the power of God to show up as you willingly step out into people's lives with sincerity for them to know and experience Jesus Christ just like you know and experience Jesus Christ." [57:44](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


### Quotes for Members

1. "Have you been at guarding your heart this week? No, there's a, King David has a psalm, I think it's 101, says that, I will put no unclean thing before my heart. Some versions will even say, I will keep, no, I will put no vile or vulgar thing before my heart. What have you put before kind of your, your eye gate and your ear gate this week? What have you let in? I mean, what's so interesting is David says that long before he knows that we're going to be a temple for the Holy Spirit. Isn't it interesting that we hold the Holy Spirit inside of our hearts? He goes wherever we go. He sees what we see, he sees our thoughts, he sees our words, he's a part of our actions." [22:53](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "When we share Jesus to make ourselves feel better, to kind of get rid of some guilt, it's not coming to people with sincerity at that point. Because their needs are no longer our focus. Our needs are the focus. I mean, have you ever... Have you ever been there when you kind of miss an opportunity or you string a couple, two, three, four, five weeks of no devotionals and then you kind of start feeling guilty like I'm not doing a lot of my Christian stuff I should be doing. And then in that guilt, you're like I should probably do a little more. I should probably step up in a little bigger way. And then we make the opportunities around us less about those people and more about trying to kind of get rid of my guilt." [42:28](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "Love must be sincere. I'm reading from the NIV for a moment. Hate what is evil. Cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourself. Never lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor serving the Lord. Be joyful in hope. Patient in affliction. Faithful in prayer. Listen to this. Share with the Lord's people who are in need. Don't hold things for yourself. Share it. Practice hospitality. And then here we really go. This is where we start really seeing that your ego has no place. As a life of a Christian. As we try to live for Christ and have Christ live through us. Bless those who persecute you." [44:37](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "There's people outside of, outside of these doors that have never felt sincerely loved in their life. They've never felt longed for or desired by anyone. They have an idea of love that means, you know, self-service. They've been used and abused. Their definition of love isn't truth. It gets all muddled. There's people outside these doors that have been chewed up and spit out in relationships and maybe even with, you know, proximity to the church. And most are skeptical that anyone could ever sincerely care for them. And they're convinced that everyone's just kind of every man for themselves. Do you have any idea what sincere love walking alongside them will do?" [56:04](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "We're not peddlers of God's word. We're not salesmen. Christianity is not a product. We are a people of sincerity that are sent by a God of sincerity. He is sincere in his love for you. And I pray that gives you a security that allows you to step out into the world with that message." [58:23](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)