Taking it further…
Taking it further is all about taking the Sunday sermon beyond Sunday and letting you generate the content. Share your thoughts, insights & Scriptures that correlate with this topic and let’s learn from each other.
Vital Connections
The only vital connection you don’t have to work on ends at Birth – 1st connection is to mother via the umbilical cord – You receive life giving nutrients and energy via the cord that connects you to your mother
This connection happens naturally, you don’t have to work on being connected to your mother in the womb. When we are born and the cord is cut, we take our very first breath through our lungs and we begin the process of learning to connect with the environment & people around us.
To be vitally connected to others we must make this song our prayer – that God would give us his eyes, his love and his arms for the world around us.
Lets look at a few obstacles to connecting to others as well as what it will look like of we are connecting using God’s eyes, love and arms.
GIVE ME YOUR EYES…. So I can see everything that I have been missing.
Obstacle: TOO BUSY
Matthew 9.36 Jesus SAW the crowds and was moved with compassion
We see lot of people every day but do we really see them the way God does?
GIVE ME YOUR LOVE…for humanity.
Obstacle: INSECURITIES – afraid that if we extend our love to others it won’t be reciprocated.
Romans 12:10 Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other.
Genuine affection = loving others as if they were your FAMILY
Story of Russian Orphanage – embracing the kids, showing them love that they rarely get
GIVE ME YOUR ARMS… for the brokenhearted.
Obtacle: DON’T WANT TO GET THAT INVOLVED
Scripture background- the Lord was saying to the righteous people that when he was hungry they fed him, naked they clothed him, thirsty they gave him a drink and they replied, when did we do these things for you to which the Lord replied:
Matthew 25:40 I tell you the truth, when you did it to one of the least of these by brothers and sisters, you were doing it to me!
What action do you need to take for someone hurting to feel the EMBRACE of the divine?
THE VITAL CONNECTIONS YOU MAKE TODAY COULD TRANSFORM SOMEONE’S TOMORROW.
Hebrews 10.24
John 15.12
Matthew 25.34-46
Song: Give Me Your Eyes – Brandon Heath
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Great song; great words! What I love about this topic is that we can’t be vitally connected to others unless we have a vital connection to God (last week’s topic). The verse in John reminds us of the love we are to have to others, “in the same way I have loved you” as Jesus states. We can’t know love unless we know God. So, why do we constantly look elsewhere for love?
Great job with this talk, Kristen.
The concept of others sensing the divine embrace thru me really resonated for me. Any vital connection between people does start with God (as Ryan said) – but should also be a way for others to experience God’s presence.
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