Week # 21Thursday, May 1, 2008

Welcome to

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Learning to live and

love like

Jesus...6Thursday, May 1, 2008

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MEET THE MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES KNOWN AS:

ME:10Thursday, May 1, 2008

We learn early on to wear masks to protect ourselves...

MASKS:

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Family Friends(school)

Culture(media)

Church

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Hiding out in the church-world...

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We need a place to take off our ...

MASKS:

... and be safe to be who we really are...

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Adam & Eve were the first to wear masks.... the first to hide...

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And all humans have beenSLAVES to masks and hiding ever since...

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1 John 1: 8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins,he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word is not in us.   

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Gods love gives us the confidence to unmask....

LOVE:

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created the church as a safe place to de-mask

God

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What would it look like if the people in the...

Church:

really did take off their masks?

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Imagine this.......what it would look like if everyone in the church truly did take of their masks and let the love and acceptance of Jesus flood in...

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All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but

they shared everything they had. 33 With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God's grace was so powerfully at work in them all 34 that

there were no needy persons among them.

~Acts 4:32-3422Thursday, May 1, 2008

It only takes a few

unsafe:

fake:people to make the

church

for everyone...23Thursday, May 1, 2008

Kristina Rigden

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often needs a little

REHAB:

Church-world...

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created the church as a safe place to de-mask

GodEven though...

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Often it becomes just one more place to be fake

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How do we get free?

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1 John 1: 8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

1. stop hiding.

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2. help others to know they are safe30Thursday, May 1, 2008

2. help others to know they are safe

1 John 3:16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for one another. 17 If any one of you has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in you? 18 Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.

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DOES ANYONE KNOW THE REAL YOU?

MASKS:

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Do your masks keep you from loving God?

MASKS:

LOVE:33Thursday, May 1, 2008

...learning to live and love like Jesus34Thursday, May 1, 2008