We continue our series called the 3 Circles at The Community Fellowship. It talks about an easy way to share our faith.
God has a plan that He put in motion almost from the beginning of time. Well, actually from the beginning of us humans messing up with what we know as sin. God’s design is for us to know purpose and life and love and even abundance.
When sin gets in the way, there is a break in the possibility of us experiencing God and His best for us. That is why we have to trust God, look to God and share our findings with as many people as possible. Follow me.
Matthew 28:19-20 NLT
Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. 20 Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
God gave us a mission. We have a story to tell. How are we doing?
Acts 1:8 NLT
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere—in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
The kingdom of God walked in to our world and in to our lives. We have good news to share with others. That is where we find ourselves in this series.
God has a design for every area of our lives and designed us to be in relationship with Him. Yet what gets in the way the Bible calls this sin. We’re born with a sinful nature so sin comes naturally to us. We all sin and fall short of God’s perfect design (Rom. 3:23). This sin leaves us in brokenness. Brokenness is easy for most of us to understand.
When we feel broken on the inside and everything’s all messed up, we know something needs to change. The Bible calls this change repentance. Brokenness is what gets us ready to try God’s solution, which is to repent and believe the gospel. Jesus came to forgive our sins. When we repent and believe in Him, He gives us His Spirit who helps us recover and pursue God’s design.
Isaiah 53:6 NLT
All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all.
Jesus took our sin. We can be changed by Him forever.
Romans 5:8 NLT
But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.
Brokenness is tough but something we try to fix. We medicate it with drugs or numb it with alcohol. We strive to be better people, hoping that somehow, someway, our good will outweigh our bad. This feels like a bad thing, but in many ways brokenness is a good thing because it’s the way God gets our attention.
May we know God’s design and run to Him no matter what. Hang with me as I continue to share about the 3 circles.
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