Restoration Through Relationships: Embracing Community in Christ

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1) "We actually have an invitation to repent and to reverse all of these patterns that fracture our relationships, that make us selfish, that hold us back from true and beautiful community." [28:08] (Download)

2) "If relationships aren't being established here, then everything else is pointless. And through those relationships... that's a very simple nutrient for us to begin to experience restoration in those areas." [34:55] (Download)

3) "Our church here, on 111 Delaware Ave, is a little oasis available to our community that might not be experiencing community anywhere else. There's something restorative about that." [31:40] (Download)

4) "God could have chosen any means to bring restoration to the world. And he chose to do it through fragile, sinful people. That is incredible." [32:41] (Download)

5) "The rhythms of our church... the mechanism that invited Angela into deeper community was a relationship, was this relationship, this micro relationship that Jessica struck up with her on the sidewalk." [41:03] (Download)

6) "On the cross, Jesus took the punishment that our sins deserve, thereby moving our judgment day from the future to the past. In Jesus, we are already completely forgiven, so we have nothing left to fear." [42:39] (Download)

7) "The message goes to us, that ultimately the gospel going forth and changing lives... the means through which it's going to happen is going to be through the relationships that we have with others." [37:06] (Download)

8) "Do we see ourselves as ambassadors of the kingdom of God to the people who haven't yet experienced the kingdom of God that we know? That is the calling that Paul is giving to us as a church." [38:24] (Download)

9) "The narrative of scripture would tell us that our desire for restoration in the world is very similar to these YouTube videos I watch... God created the world, good. He said it was good." [16:40] (Download)

10) "We genuinely believe that the gospel restores the relationships that were fractured in Genesis 3 for all of us. And we genuinely believe that when you... God's inviting you into this mission to participate in the restoring of all things." [26:54] (Download)
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