Living in Truth and Love: A Christian Call
Devotional
Sermon Summary
Bible Study Guide
Sermon Clips
### Quotes for Outreach
1. "We need to understand the importance of finding someone that we have a good relationship with and imitating them, but make sure that they are doing the right thing. Make sure they're doing the right thing. If they're doing the wrong thing, then we need to be careful and not follow them. But if they're doing the right thing, it's okay to imitate them. The Bible says there's nothing new in the world. There's nothing new. So whatever you do, someone has already done it. The question is, are you following them because it's something good or are you following them because it's something bad? We should always be looking for something good to imitate." [32:47]
2. "When you don't know someone's name and you call them by name, sometimes that person gets offended. Some people get offended when you don't know their name. I don't look good in clarity of the day. You know, she's new and we were calling around, I was calling the kids' names, the kids I knew, and I got to her and I just said, 'Red,' you know. She was offended because I was calling everybody else's name but I wasn't calling her name. And I made sure I got it. So the next class birthday idea was called by name. But why is that important? To develop a relationship. It develops a relationship. You can't have a relationship with someone that you don't know the name. It's impossible." [37:05]
3. "When someone from your country calls back home, what do they want to know? 'How is she? What's she up to? What's she doing?' And when someone gives a good report, what do your parents say? Your parents say, 'Good, they're okay.' It's one thing to hear from me that I'm okay. There's another thing to hear from someone else that says I'm okay. It's a difference there. You understand what you're saying there? That's a difference. You know, you ask me, you know, I mean, you're the parents saying, 'Well, how are you doing?' I'm doing fine. I'm okay. What they hear that, right? If someone else says, 'You know, your son is doing great. Your daughter, she's doing great.' It's a little different. It's a little different clearly." [09:52]
4. "Hospitality is important. Hospitality shows love for God in how you treat other people. When I first came to China and I went to the Chinese church, I met Elder Robby and Pam. After church, we went to lunch. I didn't have to pay the first time. Now, after that, every time we went, I had to pay. But the first time, I didn't have to pay. What did that do? That gave me an opportunity to learn about Pam, learn about Robby, learn about JICL, and now I'm still here. Because of their hospitality, I did. So the question that we need to ask ourselves is, what are we doing here hospitality-wise?" [14:49]
5. "When you bless others, you get blessed. The idea is for people to be able to say that you were a good host, good enough that they tell everyone else about it. That's what's happening here. They went forth in His name, taking nothing from the Gentiles. They were preaching to the Gentiles, and mostly good, well, a whole pan who always giving them food, not the Gentiles. They didn't ask the Gentiles to give them food. They expected the church to do that. They expected the church to do that, not the Gentiles to support them. It's our responsibility to support missionaries, people who are doing things like that. We should not expect anyone else to do that. We're supposed to do that." [20:57]
### Quotes for Members
1. "We need to understand the importance of finding someone that we have a good relationship with and imitating them, but make sure that they are doing the right thing. Make sure they're doing the right thing. If they're doing the wrong thing, then we need to be careful and not follow them. But if they're doing the right thing, it's okay to imitate them. The Bible says there's nothing new in the world. There's nothing new. So whatever you do, someone has already done it. The question is, are you following them because it's something good or are you following them because it's something bad? We should always be looking for something good to imitate." [32:47]
2. "When you don't know someone's name and you call them by name, sometimes that person gets offended. Some people get offended when you don't know their name. I don't look good in clarity of the day. You know, she's new and we were calling around, I was calling the kids' names, the kids I knew, and I got to her and I just said, 'Red,' you know. She was offended because I was calling everybody else's name but I wasn't calling her name. And I made sure I got it. So the next class birthday idea was called by name. But why is that important? To develop a relationship. It develops a relationship. You can't have a relationship with someone that you don't know the name. It's impossible." [37:05]
3. "When someone from your country calls back home, what do they want to know? 'How is she? What's she up to? What's she doing?' And when someone gives a good report, what do your parents say? Your parents say, 'Good, they're okay.' It's one thing to hear from me that I'm okay. There's another thing to hear from someone else that says I'm okay. It's a difference there. You understand what you're saying there? That's a difference. You know, you ask me, you know, I mean, you're the parents saying, 'Well, how are you doing?' I'm doing fine. I'm okay. What they hear that, right? If someone else says, 'You know, your son is doing great. Your daughter, she's doing great.' It's a little different. It's a little different clearly." [09:52]
4. "Hospitality is important. Hospitality shows love for God in how you treat other people. When I first came to China and I went to the Chinese church, I met Elder Robby and Pam. After church, we went to lunch. I didn't have to pay the first time. Now, after that, every time we went, I had to pay. But the first time, I didn't have to pay. What did that do? That gave me an opportunity to learn about Pam, learn about Robby, learn about JICL, and now I'm still here. Because of their hospitality, I did. So the question that we need to ask ourselves is, what are we doing here hospitality-wise?" [14:49]
5. "When you bless others, you get blessed. The idea is for people to be able to say that you were a good host, good enough that they tell everyone else about it. That's what's happening here. They went forth in His name, taking nothing from the Gentiles. They were preaching to the Gentiles, and mostly good, well, a whole pan who always giving them food, not the Gentiles. They didn't ask the Gentiles to give them food. They expected the church to do that. They expected the church to do that, not the Gentiles to support them. It's our responsibility to support missionaries, people who are doing things like that. We should not expect anyone else to do that. We're supposed to do that." [20:57]
6. "We need to understand is that we all are supposed to be subjected to someone else. We're all wrong like we talked about before is that even me, I'm the pastor of this church, but I have a pastor. I have someone who holds me accountable. I have someone I can call and talk to and say, 'Help, I need help.' When you get to the point where you don't need that, then something's wrong. Something's wrong when you get to the point where you can't talk to someone, ask someone, and accept the opportunity to accept the advice, then something's wrong. We know we can never get at that point. This young man did." [25:59]
7. "There are three steps. What is step one? If I have a problem with Clarence, what do I do? I tell everybody else, right? No, I go to Clarence. I have a conversation with Clarence. And then if Clarence says, 'I don't care who you are, I'm not listening to you,' then what do I do? I come back and I get Jibbo and Steven and the other Clarence, and we go back. I have a conversation with Clarence again, and Clarence says, 'I don't care what you said, I'm not willing to listen.' Then I say, 'Okay,' then we come back and that's when you find out about it. At that time, then you find out about it, and then you say, 'Okay, the other Clarence, you're not right. You have an option. You can get right or you can stay out.' We have an option. Clarence says, 'I'm going to stay out,' then he stays out. But if in the process Clarence says, 'Okay, I'm okay, I'm going to change,' then what do we say? We say, 'We've gained a brother. We've developed a relationship.' So there's nothing wrong with having conflicts. What's wrong is how you deal with the conflict." [30:46]
Ask a question about this sermon
1. "We need to understand the importance of finding someone that we have a good relationship with and imitating them, but make sure that they are doing the right thing. Make sure they're doing the right thing. If they're doing the wrong thing, then we need to be careful and not follow them. But if they're doing the right thing, it's okay to imitate them. The Bible says there's nothing new in the world. There's nothing new. So whatever you do, someone has already done it. The question is, are you following them because it's something good or are you following them because it's something bad? We should always be looking for something good to imitate." [32:47]
2. "When you don't know someone's name and you call them by name, sometimes that person gets offended. Some people get offended when you don't know their name. I don't look good in clarity of the day. You know, she's new and we were calling around, I was calling the kids' names, the kids I knew, and I got to her and I just said, 'Red,' you know. She was offended because I was calling everybody else's name but I wasn't calling her name. And I made sure I got it. So the next class birthday idea was called by name. But why is that important? To develop a relationship. It develops a relationship. You can't have a relationship with someone that you don't know the name. It's impossible." [37:05]
3. "When someone from your country calls back home, what do they want to know? 'How is she? What's she up to? What's she doing?' And when someone gives a good report, what do your parents say? Your parents say, 'Good, they're okay.' It's one thing to hear from me that I'm okay. There's another thing to hear from someone else that says I'm okay. It's a difference there. You understand what you're saying there? That's a difference. You know, you ask me, you know, I mean, you're the parents saying, 'Well, how are you doing?' I'm doing fine. I'm okay. What they hear that, right? If someone else says, 'You know, your son is doing great. Your daughter, she's doing great.' It's a little different. It's a little different clearly." [09:52]
4. "Hospitality is important. Hospitality shows love for God in how you treat other people. When I first came to China and I went to the Chinese church, I met Elder Robby and Pam. After church, we went to lunch. I didn't have to pay the first time. Now, after that, every time we went, I had to pay. But the first time, I didn't have to pay. What did that do? That gave me an opportunity to learn about Pam, learn about Robby, learn about JICL, and now I'm still here. Because of their hospitality, I did. So the question that we need to ask ourselves is, what are we doing here hospitality-wise?" [14:49]
5. "When you bless others, you get blessed. The idea is for people to be able to say that you were a good host, good enough that they tell everyone else about it. That's what's happening here. They went forth in His name, taking nothing from the Gentiles. They were preaching to the Gentiles, and mostly good, well, a whole pan who always giving them food, not the Gentiles. They didn't ask the Gentiles to give them food. They expected the church to do that. They expected the church to do that, not the Gentiles to support them. It's our responsibility to support missionaries, people who are doing things like that. We should not expect anyone else to do that. We're supposed to do that." [20:57]
### Quotes for Members
1. "We need to understand the importance of finding someone that we have a good relationship with and imitating them, but make sure that they are doing the right thing. Make sure they're doing the right thing. If they're doing the wrong thing, then we need to be careful and not follow them. But if they're doing the right thing, it's okay to imitate them. The Bible says there's nothing new in the world. There's nothing new. So whatever you do, someone has already done it. The question is, are you following them because it's something good or are you following them because it's something bad? We should always be looking for something good to imitate." [32:47]
2. "When you don't know someone's name and you call them by name, sometimes that person gets offended. Some people get offended when you don't know their name. I don't look good in clarity of the day. You know, she's new and we were calling around, I was calling the kids' names, the kids I knew, and I got to her and I just said, 'Red,' you know. She was offended because I was calling everybody else's name but I wasn't calling her name. And I made sure I got it. So the next class birthday idea was called by name. But why is that important? To develop a relationship. It develops a relationship. You can't have a relationship with someone that you don't know the name. It's impossible." [37:05]
3. "When someone from your country calls back home, what do they want to know? 'How is she? What's she up to? What's she doing?' And when someone gives a good report, what do your parents say? Your parents say, 'Good, they're okay.' It's one thing to hear from me that I'm okay. There's another thing to hear from someone else that says I'm okay. It's a difference there. You understand what you're saying there? That's a difference. You know, you ask me, you know, I mean, you're the parents saying, 'Well, how are you doing?' I'm doing fine. I'm okay. What they hear that, right? If someone else says, 'You know, your son is doing great. Your daughter, she's doing great.' It's a little different. It's a little different clearly." [09:52]
4. "Hospitality is important. Hospitality shows love for God in how you treat other people. When I first came to China and I went to the Chinese church, I met Elder Robby and Pam. After church, we went to lunch. I didn't have to pay the first time. Now, after that, every time we went, I had to pay. But the first time, I didn't have to pay. What did that do? That gave me an opportunity to learn about Pam, learn about Robby, learn about JICL, and now I'm still here. Because of their hospitality, I did. So the question that we need to ask ourselves is, what are we doing here hospitality-wise?" [14:49]
5. "When you bless others, you get blessed. The idea is for people to be able to say that you were a good host, good enough that they tell everyone else about it. That's what's happening here. They went forth in His name, taking nothing from the Gentiles. They were preaching to the Gentiles, and mostly good, well, a whole pan who always giving them food, not the Gentiles. They didn't ask the Gentiles to give them food. They expected the church to do that. They expected the church to do that, not the Gentiles to support them. It's our responsibility to support missionaries, people who are doing things like that. We should not expect anyone else to do that. We're supposed to do that." [20:57]
6. "We need to understand is that we all are supposed to be subjected to someone else. We're all wrong like we talked about before is that even me, I'm the pastor of this church, but I have a pastor. I have someone who holds me accountable. I have someone I can call and talk to and say, 'Help, I need help.' When you get to the point where you don't need that, then something's wrong. Something's wrong when you get to the point where you can't talk to someone, ask someone, and accept the opportunity to accept the advice, then something's wrong. We know we can never get at that point. This young man did." [25:59]
7. "There are three steps. What is step one? If I have a problem with Clarence, what do I do? I tell everybody else, right? No, I go to Clarence. I have a conversation with Clarence. And then if Clarence says, 'I don't care who you are, I'm not listening to you,' then what do I do? I come back and I get Jibbo and Steven and the other Clarence, and we go back. I have a conversation with Clarence again, and Clarence says, 'I don't care what you said, I'm not willing to listen.' Then I say, 'Okay,' then we come back and that's when you find out about it. At that time, then you find out about it, and then you say, 'Okay, the other Clarence, you're not right. You have an option. You can get right or you can stay out.' We have an option. Clarence says, 'I'm going to stay out,' then he stays out. But if in the process Clarence says, 'Okay, I'm okay, I'm going to change,' then what do we say? We say, 'We've gained a brother. We've developed a relationship.' So there's nothing wrong with having conflicts. What's wrong is how you deal with the conflict." [30:46]
Chatbot
-
I'm an AI bot trained specifically on the sermon from May 19, 2024. Do you have any questions about it?