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DNA - We Will Grow As Disciples In Christ

DNA - We Will Grow As Disciples In Christ

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LifePoint Lebanon

Sunday 9:00 AM

Sunday 10:45 AM

We will grow as disciples in Christ. (Love First)
"We are committed to pursuing God's best for every aspect of our lives that we might be fully His heart, soul, mind, and strength. We believe God's Word always guides us to God's Best. We will walk in grace and truth.”
Memory Verse: 
Mark 12:30 ESV
"And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.”
"We are committed to pursuing God's best for every aspect of our lives that we might be fully His heart, soul, mind, and strength.”
“Where the heart is rightly set toward God and this commandment is observed, all the other commandments follow…. It is like a hoop in a wreath, joining the end to the beginning and holding them all together.” 
-Martin Luther
Discipleship is the progressive surrender of every dimension of our being to God.
Deny, Die, and Do.
We have to deny ourselves that we might become more like Him.
"This denial of all, including ourselves, is the deepest discipline of discipleship. There are those who are dearer to us than life itself; but they should not be dearer than the Savior."
-V. Raymond Edman
We have to die to our own desire, dreams, and direction and come to life in Him.
“Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.”
― John Owen, The Mortification Of Sin
We have to do the stuff God is calling us to do.
God did not save you to shelve you! He has called you and equipped you for good works that bring Him glory!
"When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer — The Cost of Discipleship (1937)
Selfishness in the heart of a believer is a sign of spiritual cancer, of arrested growth, and something must be done before spiritual death settles in.
"Complacency, or lack of holy desire, is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth.”
A.W. Tozer — The Pursuit of God (1948)
"There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, 'Mine!'"
-Abraham Kuyper 1880
”What part of your life have you kept back from God — your finances, your sexuality, your ambition, your screen time?"
"We believe God's Word always guides us to God's Best."
We believe that the entire Bible is fully inspired by God, that it is His perfect Word and as such, it is entirely trustworthy as our guide for truth, faith, life, marriage, and salvation. We hold a high view of the Scriptures and its authority in our lives.
"The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but it is fully understood when it possesses the whole soul and penetrates to the inner recesses of the heart.”
-Martin Luther — Preface to the Epistle to the Romans (1522)
What do we do when we don’t know what to do?
What do we do when we don’t know what to do? We love first.
"We will walk in grace and truth.”
"Those with truth without grace do not really have the truth, and those with grace without truth do not really have grace… In Jesus we behold the glory of the one 'full of grace and truth.’”
-Tim Keller