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Our Life Together Is a Life for Others

November 26, 2017 • Graeme Sellers

Most churches—ours included, if we’re honest—are essentially churches for us, organized with our comfort, preferences, and perspectives in mind. But what if our thinking and doing in our life together were first informed by deep compassion for those who are lost in the seductive embrace of a world that promises everything but delivers so little?

When God builds His church He doesn’t build it for us. He builds it for the people He misses the most. Jesus wants to raise up a church that rises to the occasion of God’s heart for the world. That’s why our life together is a life for others.

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We are better together than we are alone. We’re also safer together. Safer in this way specifically: in receiving and responding to correction. Of course, we don’t like being corrected. It sometimes makes us defensive and almost always makes us uncomfortable. But here’s the thing: being comfortable may feel better but being appropriately corrected leads to the best life we can have with God.

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November 5, 2017 • Graeme Sellers

A simple strategy for spiritual warfare involves a handful of elements. Exposure, because simply talking about the enemy's schemes brings freedom and release, and robs the enemy of power. Trust, knowing the Lord who has permitted the siege will be the one to triumph over it. Engagement, because each of us has a role to play. We are to stand, pray, and fight. And all of this without fear because the Lord Himself will rebuke Satan.