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Fusion

Becoming Proactive In Racial Reconciliation

Getting Real about Our Attitudes

September 17, 2017 • Jeff Lyle

Zeal is an undervalued commodity in the Kingdom. Education is great. Experience is essential. Wisdom is a non-negotiable. Yet those three things could be found sitting in neutral if we do not possess Kingdom-zeal. When passion is added to precision, some wonderful things can happen. Having said that, zeal does not come without its own pitfalls. In this message, we see what happens when some of the disciples had more zeal than they had love. Their zeal also outran their call to unity. See how Jesus responds to His followers when they were very close to committing transgression, all because of their zeal outweighing their humility.

Admitting When You Are Wrong

September 13, 2017 • Jeff Lyle

Relationships are precious in the Kingdom…and often fragile. The Apostle Paul was a man of God like no other. Many forget that he was initially an outcast in the church because of his past. A man named Barnabas put his neck on the line for Paul and they became friends and ministry partners. But then things went south in a moment of disagreement. This message takes us through Paul’s journey with Barnabas and helps us all learn how to admit it when we have made mistakes in our relationships with others. Broken fellowship with other believers is no small matter. Observe how Paul chose humility over pride.

Unity: Good Enough To Sing About

September 10, 2017 • Jeff Lyle

People like songs about love, about victory, about heartbreak and about breakthrough. We write and sing of those things about which we are most passionate. Interestingly, there is a very short song in our bible that is all about the topic of…unity. Really? Unity? Yes, the Holy Spirit inspired a song to be written about the powerful blessing which God’s children experience when they do life together in unity. Most people do not know that there is an elevated blessing which only finds those who walk in unity with their spiritual brothers & sisters. Apart from this unity, this blessing on the rest of the Christian’s life will be smothered. If unity is important enough for God to write a song about it, then it must be good enough for us to sing about it. This message is not actually put to music, but it needs to become music to our ears as the Church advances together for the Gospel.

Directions For Our Disagreements

September 3, 2017 • Jeff Lyle

Few chapters in the bible have more greatly impacted Jeff Lyle than Romans 14 & 15. Unintentionally becoming a blind legalist after his conversion, Jeff credits the Holy Spirit’s revelation on Romans 14 as being the key that opened the cell to let Jeff be set free. This message takes the truths of liberty and love from Romans 14 and lays them over our relationships with others in the Church. Our relationships are greatly impacted by whether or not we hold people down or whether we set them free. Romans 14 not only sets you free from the unbiblical expectations of others, it empowers you to allow others go free when they disagree with your own standards, preferences and freedoms. No series on the topic of unity can be complete without a study on these verses.

Kingdom Braids

September 3, 2017 • Jeff Lyle

One component of Kingdom unity is revealed in how God has designed all of our individual giftings and callings to function together. We are not merely to get along with one another, we are to intertwine ourselves with each other in order to fulfil the mission of God in our generation. As the Holy Spirit has intentionally gifted us differently from each other, He then braids our lives together so that we move in the Kingdom as one body, with Jesus as the head. This message celebrates our diversity, while also emphasizing the seriousness that we intentionally honor, appreciate and cooperate with those whom God has made differently than we are made by Him.

Fixing Fractured Fellowship

August 30, 2017 • Jeff Lyle

It’s a little embarrassing to proclaim this, but it is a Kingdom command that Christians are to live with no divisions among us. We aren’t allowed to reject each other. We are not permitted to gossip about one another, or slander each other. The Gospel mandates that we go to each other and work out our differences. ALL of our differences. Yet the discouraging reality is that many Christians ignore this, and actually foster division in the Church with their words, actions, and inactions. This message makes it crystal clear that the Lord Jesus Christ is immeasurably serious concerning His decree that His followers be unified. It is time for heart-inspection, confession, repentance and restoration. Victory comes to believers who fight to remain unified.

Embracing The Truce

August 27, 2017 • Jeff Lyle

In the New Testament, tension in the Church is revealed between Jewish Christians and Gentile Christians. There was so much that made them different from one another. Yet Christ had now made them one with Him, and one with each other. The Apostle Paul sought to help these two groups overcome their differences and to live in empowered oneness with each other. So much from Paul’s words can help us today as we worship, pray and serve with people who may be very different than we are. This message exalts our unity in Christ and inspires each Christian to commit further to bringing pleasure to the heart of the Father by growing deeper in love with all other believers.

Enthusiastically, Unapologetically Unified

August 23, 2017 • Jeff Lyle

Depending on who is reporting the data, you will be told that there are up to 60,000 different denominational representations of Christianity. Even if that statistic is 90% overblown, the result is staggering. Jesus did not die for a divided Church. He is not returning for a Bride who is staggering due to self-inflicted wounds. Jesus Christ paid the price so that all believers would become one with Him, and one with each other. This message unveils a key passage of scripture which refuses to allow us to easily buy into current presentation of God’s Church as being divided. It also contains a clear command to all believers to live unto unity. May God aid those who watch and listen to discern if they are part of the problem or part of the solution.

What Jesus Asked The Father

August 16, 2017 • Jeff Lyle

There has never been a season when it is more crucial for the Church to understand the prayer of Jesus in John 17. Shortly before His death, Jesus asked the Father repeatedly to secure and manifest a oneness among His followers. Jesus’ prayer reveals the enormous impact that this oneness will have in each generation, and He stresses His heartfelt desire that His followers would live in this heightened reality of unity. What is currently separating us from one another? What are we doing about it? This message is a call to consider, and a call to act.

Our Amens Are Not Enough

August 13, 2017 • Jeff Lyle

As the Church in America longs for and prays for true Revival and breakthrough, the Father is placing His finger on an issue that must first be resolved before the next great move awakens: the giant of racism must be slain in the Church. While overt racism is no longer as prevalent as it once was in the Church, the division, injustice, hostility and indifference between white Christians and black Christians is a severe hindrance to revival. Jesus prayed that we would all be one with each other. Until racial divisions are replaced by unified love, our breakthrough cannot and will not come. This message tells us that we can no longer simply say ‘Amen!’ to these thoughts. It is time for action concerning race relations in the Church.