SPECIAL REQUEST FROM THE CLOTHES CLOSET

We are in need of boys and girls back to school clothes, shoes and uniforms! We are very low (really nothing nice left for boys - and not much for girls) and have 4 families wanting to come in for clothes.

Please Contact Us at info@theoutletcommunity.com if you are able to assist in the request or have any questions.

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CONFESSION

Thank you Lord for this seed to sow into the kingdom of God. I believe you enable my family to generate wealth because we are called to invest into seeing Your will accomplished in the Earth. Help us to remain committed to building strong communities and creating a lasting legacy. In Jesus’ name, Amen!

Speaker: Pastor Vince Thomas, Jr.
Title: Allow Me to Reintroduce Myself
Series: Homecoming Series (Part 1)
Text: John 14:1–7 (NLT)

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Main Point: If we do not know who God is, how can we discover who we were created to be?

John 14:1–7 (NLT)

“If you don’t know the identity of the speaker it becomes difficult to understand the context of one's conversation.”

The evolving image of Jesus Christ from A.D. 1350 to 1600. Some of the best-known depictions of Christ, from Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper” to Michelangelo’s “Last Judgment” in the Sistine Chapel, were produced during this period.

The all-time most-reproduced image of Jesus comes from another period. It is Warner Sallman’s light-eyed, light-haired “Head of Christ” from 1940. Sallman, a former commercial artist who created art for advertising campaigns, successfully marketed this picture worldwide.

Through Sallman’s partnerships with two Christian publishing companies, one Protestant and one Catholic, the Head of Christ came to be included on everything from prayer cards to stained glass, faux oil paintings, calendars, hymnals and night lights.

Sallman’s painting culminates a long tradition of white Europeans creating and disseminating pictures of Christ made in their own image.

J.J.’s painting in Good Times that created a religious conflict in the Evans household.

Scholar Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey argue that in the centuries after European colonization of the Americas, the image of a white Christ associated him with the logic of empire and could be used to justify the oppression of Native and African Americans.

In a multiracial but unequal America, there was a disproportionate representation of a white Jesus in the media. It wasn’t only Warner Sallman’s Head of Christ that was depicted widely; a large proportion of actors who have played Jesus on television and filmhave been white with blue eyes.

Pictures of Jesus historically have served many purposes, from symbolically presenting his power to depicting his actual likeness. But representation matters, and people need to understand the complicated history of the images of Christ they consume.

Any objection to the “biblical Jesus” must account for the counter-intuitive aspects of Jesus’ ministry, the transformation of the disciples, the confessional conclusions (especially Nicaea and Chalcedon) of the Church, and the acceptance of canonical materials among the fathers of the Church.

You can argue over discrepancies of logistical data but you cannot argue a transformed life.

Psalm 34:8–10 (NLT)

The total life salvation Jesus came to earth to bring through the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy was to make a “new-life experience” with God tangible and personal. Man had co-opted God’s original purpose for relating to Him and turned it into political and economic opportunity with barriers for the poor and marginalized.

"If you allow your opponent to define your actions, you allow your opponent to control your narrative. If your opponent controls your narrative, your opponent controls you." ~ Al Vivian

Diversity - the practice or quality of including or involving people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders, sexual orientations, etc.

Equity - the quality of being fair and impartial

Inclusion - the practice or policy of providing equal access to opportunities and resources for people who might otherwise be excluded or marginalized, such as those who have physical or intellectual disabilities and members of other minority groups.

John 3:16 (NLT): For this is how God loved the world (DIVERSITY): He gave his one and only Son (EQUITY), so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life (INCLUSION).

In John 3:16 we see God’s case for diversity, equity, and inclusion. Jesus came to place on the Earth a personal relationship with God through the life-changing power of Holy Spirit.

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