Message Notes

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We all want to be accepted and welcomed and taken in, even and especially when we’re at our very worst. But almost nobody wants to do the accepting and welcoming and taking in. Almost nobody wants to go around finding the most unpleasant, most undeserving people available, declaring “I choose you. You belong with me now”. - Gregory Coles, No Longer Strangers

Luke 15:11-32

Our capacity to love everyone is dependent upon our willingness to love anyone.

Acts 8:26-40

In a world where so many feel that they are sleepwalking through their lives, Jesus’ call to be awake resonates with the vague awareness of missing out on our own lives.

“The Spirit can be speaking into our lives, God can be moving in us, and we will miss it entirely because we are lost in mental machinations.” — Dr. Amy Oden

“Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable.” — David W. Augsburger