Transforming Lives Through Prayer and Community Love

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### Quotes for Outreach

1. "You know, God is so good. He's so awesome. And he will be that awesome to you as well. Amen. He'll be awesome to you." [36:26] (8 seconds) ( | | )

2. "How many know we need to pray more? I need to pray more. Somebody lift your hand with me and say, Lord, help me. I need to pray more." [38:56] (6 seconds) ( | | )

3. "Let's change the world. Come on. Let's change the world. Let's change the world. I'm up to it in Jesus name, right?" [47:29] (7 seconds) ( | | )

4. "Know Jesus, experience freedom. How many of you know we can have a lot of baggage in our life? Anybody got any extra bags? How many of you know there's a charge for that? There's an extra, that's a high price to pay to carry along extra baggage." [52:58] (16 seconds) ( | | )

5. "You know what else you can do? You can go a step further and you can include them. You can include them in your little group. Hello. Invite them to be a part of your little group. Invite them to come to church with you. Come to prayer with you. Go to coffee with you. Hey, we're going to church. Have lunch. You want to go? Come along. You know what? I'll pay. I'll pay. Whatever. Buy them lunch." [01:16:37] (17 seconds) ( | | )

### Quotes for Members

1. "We talked about changing the world. And the first thing we talked about is the world being the space in which we live. I mean, you live, you've heard this before. Perhaps I live in all you have. They live in their own little world. How many know we all have a world we live in. It's with you everywhere you go. You can't get away from it because it's you. It's just a space we live in." [47:29] (19 seconds) ( | | )

2. "What we all need is Jesus coming into our lives, put light on it, and show us what we need to deal with, and he makes us better. That's why we allow him into our lives, because then when Christ comes in, I begin to sort out my world, begin to have a God perspective, and then I adjust my life to line up with God's viewpoint and his design for my life." [48:46] (19 seconds) ( | | )

3. "Know Jesus, experience freedom. But then comes a critical part, which I want to begin to address a little bit today and in the coming weeks, because this is really one of our, all our drivers are there, but this is really important, significant for all of us is growing in Christ, to grow in him. Certainly we know him, then we begin to grow in him by his word. Through the Holy Spirit. But here's a key dynamic of growing in your Christian faith, and that is choosing community. Choose community." [54:21] (30 seconds) ( | | )

4. "You will never redeem what you hate. You'll never redeem what you hate because hate separates. Love attracts. Hate separates. And I will never engage any redemptive process in anybody that I hate because hate creates disdain or dislike for somebody. So I'm not going to redeem somebody." [01:03:47] (32 seconds) ( | | )

5. "I believe the church is called to stop that. And that's how we change our world. But I can only stop it within my sphere of influence and where I have opportunity. I can stop it in my life because I can stop hating as a person. There's hate in me. I need to learn how to overcome that hate. And it can come from hurt, rejection. I mean, it can come from a lot of things. But Jesus can have power over that in my life that I don't have to hate." [01:03:47] (31 seconds) ( | | )

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