DOING OUR FAITH Ross Hoagland DOING OUR FAITH

DOING OUR FAITH Ross Hoagland

DOING OUR FAITH LOVE THINKING DOING FEELING RESTORATION

LOVE (OUTWARD FOCUS AS A LIFESTYLE) § 1 Co 16: 14 Let all things be done in love. • Mat 22: 34 -40 …. the Pharisees were gathered together. Then one of them, a lawyer, asked, tempting Him and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the Law? Jesus said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.

THINKING • • • Apologetics Theology Philosophy Bible psychology

DOING • • • Relationships Listening Acts of compassion Social justice Prayer

FEELING • • Love (as an emotion) Compassion Gratitude Beauty

• 1 Jn 4: 20 If anyone says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar. For if he does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

• Joh 13: 34 I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. As I have loved you, you should also love one another. • Joh 13: 35 By this all shall know that you are My disciples, if you have love toward one another.

• Mat 5: 44 But I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you

• Heb 10: 24 and let us consider one another to provoke to love and to good works

• 1 Co 13: 1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I have become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. • 1 Co 13: 2 And though I have prophecies, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so as to move mountains, and do not have love, I am nothing. • 1 Co 13: 3 And though I give out all my goods to feed the poor, and though I deliver my body to be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

• Luk 8: 16 And no one lighting a lamp covers it with a vessel or puts it under a couch; but he sets it on a lampstand so that those who enter in may see the light.

• In the research…. . our team discovered that 84% of young non-Christians say they know a Christian personally, yet only 15% say the lifestyles of those believers are noticeably different in a good way.

GET SAVED TRUST RESTORED RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD OBEDIENCE ACCOMPANIED BY GRACE GROWING INTIMACY WITH GOD TRANSFORMATION EXPERIENCE OUR FATHERS LOVE, GRACE AND FORGIVENESS AN UNDIVIDED HEART A NEW WAY OF LIFE

• Eph 2: 8 For by grace you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, • Eph 2: 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. • Eph 2: 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.

• Mic 6: 8 He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does Jehovah require of you but to do justice and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God?

• Heb 10: 24 and let us consider one another to provoke to love and to good works

• But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments. • Mat 19: 18 He said to Him, Which? Jesus said, You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not bear false witness, • Mat 19: 19 honor your father and mother, and, you shall love your neighbor as yourself. • Mat 19: 20 The young man said to Him, I have kept all these things from my youth up; what do I lack yet? • Mat 19: 21 Jesus said to him, If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in Heaven. And come, follow Me.

• Jas 2: 20 But will you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

• Jas 1: 22 But become doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

• Isa 58: 6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed ones go free, and that you break every yoke? • Isa 58: 7 Is it not to break your bread to the hungry, and that you should bring home the wandering poor? When will you see the naked and cover him; and you will not hide yourself from your own flesh? • Isa 58: 8 Then shall your light break out as the dawn, and your health shall spring out quickly; and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of Jehovah shall gather you. • Isa 58: 9 Then you shall call, and Jehovah shall answer; you shall cry, and He shall say, Here I am.

• Jas 1: 27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit orphans and widows in their afflictions, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

• Let us represent Jesus Christ by how we love people and what we can do for them as much as by what we say and believe