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As a believer, it’s important to get along with brothers and sisters in Christ. Are you cross with a brother? Has a sister done you wrong? Jesus command is to fix the problem, not simply ignore it!

“If another believer sins against you, go privately and point out the offense. If the other person listens and confesses it, you have won that person back. But if you are unsuccessful, take one or two others with you and go back again, so that everything you say may be confirmed by two or three witnesses. If the person still refuses to listen, take your case to the church. Then if he or she won’t accept the church’s decision, treat that person as a pagan or a corrupt tax collector.
Matthew 18:15-17

It’s not okay as long as you are “FINE” (freaked-out, insecure, neurotic, and emotional). You gotta face the issue. Resolve it today!

“The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him, and he will be raised on the third day.” And they were greatly distressed.

Matt 17:22-23

Most of the time, God wants to do something painful to you (for you / with you).

And, most of the time, we cry out to God asking something like “God, why don’t you remove this from me. If you’re real God, take this away…”

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“If God is real, show me the proof!”

“If Jesus is God, why is there so little evidence?”

“If Christianity is real, why is there suffering?”

An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign

-Matt 16:4

God is not a hypothesis. The Bible isn’t a math problem.

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What messes us up? What makes us go the wrong direction?

it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.

-Matt 15:11

There isn’t anything you must first stop in order to become holy.

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“I can’t do it, can I? Well, I don’t have the right situation…”

Toward evening the disciples approached him. “We’re out in the country and it’s getting late. Dismiss the people so they can go to the villages and get some supper.”

But Jesus said, “There is no need to dismiss them. You give them supper.”

“All we have are five loaves of bread and two fish,” they said.

Jesus said, “Bring them here.” Then he had the people sit on the grass. He took the five loaves and two fish, lifted his face to heaven in prayer, blessed, broke, and gave the bread to the disciples. The disciples then gave the food to the congregation. They all ate their fill. They gathered twelve baskets of leftovers. About five thousand were fed.

-Matt 14:15-21

We are usually fooled into believing that we don’t have the resources to accomplish the task (whatever that is). Don’t believe it. 

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