Why EBCLA Matters: Hope
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VISION
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OUR VISIONGod is forming EBCLA into a Faith Village: a unique social
community whose life together is both a picture and a preview of what God is doing in and for all of creation.
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OUR VISIONGod is forming EBCLA into a Faith Village: a unique social
community whose life together is both a picture and a preview of what God is doing in and for all of creation.
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OUR VISIONGod is forming EBCLA into a Faith Village: a unique social
community whose life together is both a picture and a preview of what God is doing in and for all of creation.
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VISIONMISSION
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OUR MISSIONWe exist to be and bring Christ’s hope, humility, and hospitality to the world, and thus our mission must be to train heroic apprentices of Jesus who clearly embrace and embody biblical reconciliation and missional living.
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VISIONMISSIONVALUES
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OUR MISSION & CORE VALUESWe exist to be and bring Christ’s hope, humility, and hospitality to the world, and thus our mission must be to train heroic apprentices of Jesus who clearly embrace and embody biblical reconciliation and missional living.
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Our mission and core values should drive our culture and should be the foundation for why we do what we do. Every important decision we make should be measured against these standards.
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“It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.” Roy Oliver Disney
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HOPE HUMILITY HOSPITALITY
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Anne Lamont on “Hope”
“Hope is not about proving anything. It's about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak [bag of manure] anyone can throw at us.”
Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
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Lamentations 3 24 I say to myself, “The Lord is everything I will ever need. So I will put my hope in him.” 25 The Lord is good to those who put their hope in him. He is good to those who look to him.
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Lamentations 3 24 I say to myself, “The Lord is everything I will ever need. So I will put my hope in him.” 25 The Lord is good to those who put their hope in him. He is good to those who look to him.
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Hope That’s Rooted in God’s LoveEPH 3:17b And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
L O V E O F C H R I S T
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Our Hope grows as we become more and more rooted in the love of Jesus.
Hope
Humility
Hospitality
LOVE OF CHRIST
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Romans 8 23 And that’s not all. We have the Holy Spirit as the promise of future blessing. But we also groan inside ourselves. We do this as we look forward to the time when God adopts us as full members of his family. Then he will give us everything he has for us. He will raise our bodies and give glory to them. 24 That’s the hope we had when we were saved. But hope that can be seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? 25 We hope for what we don’t have yet. So we are patient as we wait for it.
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Romans 8 23 And that’s not all. We have the Holy Spirit as the promise of future blessing. But we also groan inside ourselves. We do this as we look forward to the time when God adopts us as full members of his family. Then he will give us everything he has for us. He will raise our bodies and give glory to them. 24 That’s the hope we had when we were saved. But hope that can be seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? 25 We hope for what we don’t have yet. So we are patient as we wait for it.
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now not yet
Our hope can get uprooted
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That’s why EBCLA matters.A picture and a preview of what God’s doing in and for creation An actual experience of God’s merciful, unconditional love > Hope
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before
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after
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“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.