Living in Obedience: The Power of Love and Service

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"We need to be more obedient to the word of God and learn to separate ourselves from people who are not being obedient to the word of God and misleading people." [13:27]

"Luke writes about the followers of Christ to show us that God wants to do a work within us, and that following the Holy Spirit should be the characteristic of the church." [15:19]

"The fact that we are all shapes and sizes, that we are different skin colors, we come from different places, we have different thoughts, we are different. But yet in the body of Christ, we come together and become one. The church is a miracle." [38:35]

"Don't be impressed by people who know how to lead worship, don't be impressed with these things, watch their fruit. Jesus said you will know them by their fruit." [34:57]

"There is no maturing outside of serving. You could be so filled with the word, but if you're not serving people, who cares?" [19:02]

"When everyone serves, everyone benefits and everyone wins. In the kingdom of God, we don't just get to always pull up to the table and eat, sometimes we gotta do the dishes, sometimes we gotta clean the tables off, sometimes we gotta serve the kingdom." [21:05]

"The principle of serving is to build community and relationships. The people that I find don't have relationships are the people that show up late, they leave early, and they don't do anything in the church, and they wonder why they have no connection." [21:37]

"Love is patient, love is kind, love does not envy or boast, it is not arrogant or rude, it does not insist on its own way, it's not irritable or resentful, it does not rejoice at wrongdoing." (source: [45:05])

"Every gift is just another way for us to express love." (source: [44:24])

"Don't covet other people's gifts, use what God has given you. You don't know what it's going to end up being, it may be a seed right now." [23:56]
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