Disciple: Conform - Keeping Jesus Our Focus - Brian Barr

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Disciple: Conform - Keeping Jesus Our Focus - Brian Barr

March 17, 2024 • Brian Barr • Romans 8:28–29, Galatians 4:19, Matthew 16:24–25

What is God’s vision for your life? Many Christians wonder about this question, but God clearly tells us in His Word that He has one goal for our lives - that we be conformed into likeness of His Son Jesus (Romans 8:28-29). This week, Brian Barr kicked off a new sermon series covering the second “C” in OneLife’s grid for what it means to be a disciple of Jesus - Conform. As followers of Jesus, we are called to give our lives completely to following Jesus and becoming like Him in every area of our lives. We are not to be mere church attenders. We must leave our infantile ways, and grow up into maturity in Christ. But for that to happen, we must focus our lives on Jesus. Too often Christians focus on themselves when it comes to change. The first step to truly becoming like Jesus is to come to Him. We must learn to abide with Jesus, and to fix your eyes on Him. True transformation will happen when our aim and our focus is set on the person God intends for us to be conformed to.

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At OneLife, we want to be and make disciples of Jesus who love God, one another, and our world. We are God’s people making much of Jesus in everyday life for the good of the neighborhoods in the Bay Area of Houston and beyond.

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Disciple: Conform - Walk by the Spirit - Nate Miller

April 28, 2024 • Nate Miller • Galatians 5:16–25

What does it look like to grow in spiritual maturity? This week, Nate Miller finished our Disciple: Conform series looking at how we change to be more like Jesus. Like plants produce fruit as they grow, followers of Jesus are also called to produce fruit of the Spirit in their lives. In Galatians, Paul says that we are to “walk by the Spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.” As followers of Jesus, we must submit to the leadership of the Holy Spirit. Being led by the Spirit is like being led by a father who is gentle and full of love for his children. We also start living by the Spirit’s desires and starving the sinful desires of our flesh. It’s in an environment that is submissive to the Spirit that we can begin to bear fruit of Godliness in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control. You can join our OneLife Sunday morning gatherings via livestream at 9am and 11am CST every Sunday morning. Or if you’re local to the Bay Area of Houston, we’d love to have you join us in person Saturdays at 5pm and Sundays at 9am and 11am! Subscribe to our YouTube channel to join us live on Sunday mornings: https://www.youtube.com/@onelifechurch381https://www.youtube.com/@https://www.youtube.com/@onelifechurch381 Listen to more messages from OneLife Church at https://www.onelifehouston.com/messageshttps://www.onelifehouston.com/messages If you would like to give to OneLife Church, you can do that here: https://www.onelifehouston.com/givehttps://www.onelifehouston.com/give At OneLife, we want to be and make disciples of Jesus who love God, one another, and our world. We are God’s people making much of Jesus in everyday life for the good of the neighborhoods in the Bay Area of Houston and beyond. For more information about us and our gatherings, visit https://www.onelifehouston.com/https://www.onelifehouston.com/ Connect with us over social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/onelifehoustonhttps://www.facebook.com/https://www.facebook.com/onelifehouston Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onelifechurchhttps://www.instagram.com/https://www.instagram.com/onelifechurch

Disciple: Conform - 5 Steps When You Sin - Chris Nagel

April 21, 2024 • Chris Nagel • Hebrews 4:16, Romans 6:1, Romans 11—12, Galatians 5:16

What should our response to sin be in our lives? This week, Chris Nagel continued our series Disciple: Conform giving us five steps to help us in turning from sin. While we no longer are enslaved to sin when we become a Christian, we will still battle the temptation to sin. It’s not only external threats that we fight against - like Satan or the world, but we also battle the internal threat of our own flesh. We must fight sin in our lives by running to Jesus and his throne of grace. He has given us a new identity and it’s from this new identity that we have the power to fight sin. We must turn and point our desires towards God, relentlessly pulling up the roots of sinful desires in our lives. God has given us the Holy Spirit to empower us to walk in a manner that glorifies Him. But we also must be ruthless to cut out anything in our lives that leads us to sin. Jesus is the great physician that came for the sick - it’s your very sin that drew Jesus to you in the first place. So in our battle against sin, we must be people who run boldly to the throne of his grace. You can join our OneLife Sunday morning gatherings via livestream at 9am and 11am CST every Sunday morning. Or if you’re local to the Bay Area of Houston, we’d love to have you join us in person Saturdays at 5pm and Sundays at 9am and 11am! Subscribe to our YouTube channel to join us live on Sunday mornings: https://www.youtube.com/@onelifechurch381https://www.youtube.com/@https://www.youtube.com/@onelifechurch381 Listen to more messages from OneLife Church at https://www.onelifehouston.com/messageshttps://www.onelifehouston.com/messages If you would like to give to OneLife Church, you can do that here: https://www.onelifehouston.com/givehttps://www.onelifehouston.com/give At OneLife, we want to be and make disciples of Jesus who love God, one another, and our world. We are God’s people making much of Jesus in everyday life for the good of the neighborhoods in the Bay Area of Houston and beyond. For more information about us and our gatherings, visit https://www.onelifehouston.com/https://www.onelifehouston.com/ Connect with us over social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/onelifehoustonhttps://www.facebook.com/https://www.facebook.com/onelifehouston Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onelifechurchhttps://www.instagram.com/https://www.instagram.com/onelifechurch

Disciple: Conform - Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ - Brian Barr

April 14, 2024 • Brian Barr • Romans 6

As followers of Jesus, our testimony is that we are dead to sin and are now alive to God. But what does that mean? This week, Brian Barr continued in our series Disciple: Conform, looking at how we conform to the likeness of Jesus by fighting sin in our lives. Before becoming a Christian, we were enslaved to sin. But when we turn to Jesus, our old self dies and we experience freedom from the power of sin and walk in the newness of life in Christ! It doesn't mean we are incapable of sinning, but that we are free from sin’s dominion in our lives. Now we fight against the temptation to sin and present ourselves to God as instruments of righteousness. Walking in the grace of God means that we accept that Jesus has both forgiven and cleansed us! We are no longer dirty and full of shame. We are given the Holy Spirit who empowers us to walk in victory over sin and gives us new desires for righteousness. You can join our OneLife Sunday morning gatherings via livestream at 9am and 11am CST every Sunday morning. Or if you’re local to the Bay Area of Houston, we’d love to have you join us in person Saturdays at 5pm and Sundays at 9am and 11am! Subscribe to our YouTube channel to join us live on Sunday mornings: https://www.youtube.com/@onelifechurch381https://www.youtube.com/@https://www.youtube.com/@onelifechurch381 Listen to more messages from OneLife Church at https://www.onelifehouston.com/messageshttps://www.onelifehouston.com/messages If you would like to give to OneLife Church, you can do that here: https://www.onelifehouston.com/givehttps://www.onelifehouston.com/give At OneLife, we want to be and make disciples of Jesus who love God, one another, and our world. We are God’s people making much of Jesus in everyday life for the good of the neighborhoods in the Bay Area of Houston and beyond. For more information about us and our gatherings, visit https://www.onelifehouston.com/https://www.onelifehouston.com/ Connect with us over social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/onelifehoustonhttps://www.facebook.com/https://www.facebook.com/onelifehouston Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onelifechurchhttps://www.instagram.com/https://www.instagram.com/onelifechurch