Rooted in Christ: Discovering True Identity and Purpose
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "Being rooted in God's Word isn't a hobby. We aren't hobbyists dabbling in faith when it's convenient to make the time or to distract us from our, quote, unquote, real-world problems. Being rooted in God's Word is a reminder that our faith in Jesus Christ connects us with the source of life." [00:55]
2. "Paul describes an all-powerful, all-knowing God of all things. And boldly declares, that this God is not an unknown God, but is knowable. He is knowable as one who loves, as one who gives life, not as one who meddles and conjoles humanity. He purposes through humanity to be known and for us to come into fullness in relationship with Him. For in Him we live and move and have our being." [03:44]
3. "If your core identity is in Christ, if the primary title that you bear is Christian, then you will know that He will never abandon you. That's in Hebrews chapter 13 verse 5, that His love and nature is unchanging, Hebrews chapter 13 verse 8, and that God became flesh not just so He could identify with us but so that we could identify with Him." [12:09]
4. "My friends, don't you see that when we as Christians point our fingers at the world and say, you are wrong, you are harmful, all we are doing is reinforcing their false identity. As a result, those outside of Christ are digging in their heels against the church because they see the church as a place of accusation and the world as a place of acceptance. Brothers and sisters, the church is not a place of accusation, but a place of salvation." [15:53]
5. "What if instead of pointing fingers, we had empathy? Tolerance, saying you don't have to change, but true empathy. What if we remembered what it was for us to die to ourselves and the struggle that we had when we first came to Christ? Putting ourselves in their shoes, saying there is a better way. I can show you I've been there. What you're doing, what you're believing about yourself, it's separating you from God who loves you." [17:40]
### Quotes for Members
1. "Being rooted in God's word, again, is not a hobby, nor is intimacy with God a luxury reserved for only the religious elite. In your own life, if you lack intimacy with God, it is not because God is distant and unknowable, or because others are just simply better than you. No. That is accusing God. It's accusing God of being distant and unknowable. And honestly, that accuse is nothing more than an excuse to remain stuck in our sin and in our unbelief, hiding behind the barriers that we've put up between us and God in an attempt to avoid His righteousness." [04:37]
2. "But, if you do address those barriers and senseless comparisons, which is done through repentance for the purpose of restoration, then you'll find yourself drinking deeper and deeper from an intimate relationship with God. You'll grow in faith, you'll grow in hope, you'll grow in love, and His values will increasingly become your values. You'll passionately endure whatever may come in order to see Him glorified in not just your life, but in others as well." [05:33]
3. "We Christians more than anyone should know what it means to die to ourselves, to let go of both external and internal identities, and to submit ourselves to Jesus Christ. Mark chapter eight verse 34 through 35. If you want to open up your Bible to it, Mark chapter 8 verses 34 through 35. Jesus said to the surrounding crowd and His disciples, 'If anyone wants to follow after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me and the gospel will save it.'" [13:57]
4. "Because if He is the way, the truth, and the life, John 14, 6, if His resurrection is for eternal life, then He is life because the wages of sin was paid Romans chapter 6 and that eternal life means knowing God through Christ John 17 3 then showing the world Jesus Christ that He is greater than our natural external and internal identities that He is greater than our false identities and that He is not only knowable but that in Him we are fully known and loved." [19:28]
5. "Honestly, I didn't expect this to be the message today. No, it's not what I expected. Who said that? Bob actually expected in continuing the series of being growing God's kingdom to share a message about vision and purpose and direction seeking the Lord's direction seeking God's will for our lives and how to take steps practical steps for His purpose but the more I prepared that message and wrestled with it the more I realized that it is absolutely meaningless to talk about vision and purpose if we don't get our identities from the vision giver and the purpose maker." [21:09]
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1. "Being rooted in God's Word isn't a hobby. We aren't hobbyists dabbling in faith when it's convenient to make the time or to distract us from our, quote, unquote, real-world problems. Being rooted in God's Word is a reminder that our faith in Jesus Christ connects us with the source of life." [00:55]
2. "Paul describes an all-powerful, all-knowing God of all things. And boldly declares, that this God is not an unknown God, but is knowable. He is knowable as one who loves, as one who gives life, not as one who meddles and conjoles humanity. He purposes through humanity to be known and for us to come into fullness in relationship with Him. For in Him we live and move and have our being." [03:44]
3. "If your core identity is in Christ, if the primary title that you bear is Christian, then you will know that He will never abandon you. That's in Hebrews chapter 13 verse 5, that His love and nature is unchanging, Hebrews chapter 13 verse 8, and that God became flesh not just so He could identify with us but so that we could identify with Him." [12:09]
4. "My friends, don't you see that when we as Christians point our fingers at the world and say, you are wrong, you are harmful, all we are doing is reinforcing their false identity. As a result, those outside of Christ are digging in their heels against the church because they see the church as a place of accusation and the world as a place of acceptance. Brothers and sisters, the church is not a place of accusation, but a place of salvation." [15:53]
5. "What if instead of pointing fingers, we had empathy? Tolerance, saying you don't have to change, but true empathy. What if we remembered what it was for us to die to ourselves and the struggle that we had when we first came to Christ? Putting ourselves in their shoes, saying there is a better way. I can show you I've been there. What you're doing, what you're believing about yourself, it's separating you from God who loves you." [17:40]
### Quotes for Members
1. "Being rooted in God's word, again, is not a hobby, nor is intimacy with God a luxury reserved for only the religious elite. In your own life, if you lack intimacy with God, it is not because God is distant and unknowable, or because others are just simply better than you. No. That is accusing God. It's accusing God of being distant and unknowable. And honestly, that accuse is nothing more than an excuse to remain stuck in our sin and in our unbelief, hiding behind the barriers that we've put up between us and God in an attempt to avoid His righteousness." [04:37]
2. "But, if you do address those barriers and senseless comparisons, which is done through repentance for the purpose of restoration, then you'll find yourself drinking deeper and deeper from an intimate relationship with God. You'll grow in faith, you'll grow in hope, you'll grow in love, and His values will increasingly become your values. You'll passionately endure whatever may come in order to see Him glorified in not just your life, but in others as well." [05:33]
3. "We Christians more than anyone should know what it means to die to ourselves, to let go of both external and internal identities, and to submit ourselves to Jesus Christ. Mark chapter eight verse 34 through 35. If you want to open up your Bible to it, Mark chapter 8 verses 34 through 35. Jesus said to the surrounding crowd and His disciples, 'If anyone wants to follow after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me and the gospel will save it.'" [13:57]
4. "Because if He is the way, the truth, and the life, John 14, 6, if His resurrection is for eternal life, then He is life because the wages of sin was paid Romans chapter 6 and that eternal life means knowing God through Christ John 17 3 then showing the world Jesus Christ that He is greater than our natural external and internal identities that He is greater than our false identities and that He is not only knowable but that in Him we are fully known and loved." [19:28]
5. "Honestly, I didn't expect this to be the message today. No, it's not what I expected. Who said that? Bob actually expected in continuing the series of being growing God's kingdom to share a message about vision and purpose and direction seeking the Lord's direction seeking God's will for our lives and how to take steps practical steps for His purpose but the more I prepared that message and wrestled with it the more I realized that it is absolutely meaningless to talk about vision and purpose if we don't get our identities from the vision giver and the purpose maker." [21:09]
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