Choosing Connection as a Family of God - Karena Lout
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Blazing Fire Core Value: Choosing Connection As A Family Of God Pastor Karena Lout January 31, 2015
Transcript of Choosing Connection as a Family of God - Karena Lout
Blazing Fire Core Value:
Choosing Connection As A Family Of God
Pastor Karena Lout January 31, 2015
"My Father has entrusted everything to Me. No one truly knows the Son except the Father and no one truly knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."
Matthew 11:27
butWe may not get to choose what family we’re born into
We get to choose each other.
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Don’t we have a natural disposition to connect?
Yes NoYES: We were each born with a desire
for relationship and connection
NO: Pain can sometimes take the driver’s seat and cause us to disconnect
“Set your mind on things above, not on things on Earth. For you died and your life
is hidden with Christ.”
Colossians 3:2
“SET” in Greek:
An ongoing decision.
Some FEARS when choosing connection:
Is this gonna require more of me than I think I can give?
Being vulnerable, fully “showing up” in a relationship, keeping my heart open.
Rejection. What if I share my heart with you and am not met with an open heart in return?
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"Don't be selfish. don't try to impress others.
Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. Don't look out only for your own interests but take an
interest in others too."
Philippians 2:3
Choosing connection is closing the distance !
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between your world and mine.
Empathy vs Sympathy a short animation of a Brene Brown talk
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to watch go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=jz1g1SpD9Zo
"If one part suffers, all the parts suffer with it and if one part is honored,
all the parts are glad. All of you together are Christ's body and each of you is a part of it."
1 Corinthians 12:26
