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  9/8/2021 Philippians 1:15 [NIV] "It is true that some preach Christ out of envy and rivalry, but others out of goodwill." Tribal Christianity was never God’s plan. The Body of Christ limits its ability to serve the Kingdom of Heaven when it gets sidetracked struggling against each other. Yes, Christ is preached, and sinners are reached with the Good News, but at what cost? When we choose to trash talk other believers or cast doubt on their relationship with Christ or their unique approach to the Gospel, we create a fence around our own approach. The enemy uses these barriers to limit our outreach to the lost. The world is filled with a great number of Christian denominations and communities. While this can this be both good and bad, different approaches can reach a greater variety and number of people. I believe this is one of the reasons why Jesus commands us to love one another, because it has a real effect on our witness to the world, for good or ill. The Holy Sp...

  9/1/2021 John 6:29-30 [NIV] Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.” So they asked him, “What sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you? God requires us to believe in Him and in the Savior sent to redeem us from our sins, so that we can have a relationship with Him. If our response is “Prove yourself”, we may find we have cut ourselves off from the presence of God. I say ‘may’ because there is no hard and fast rule here: sometimes, God does graciously provide evidence of His love and care to his demanding children. Ancient Israel living in the wilderness found food and water miraculously provided to them. That it was not enough for some is evidence that our demand for evidence of God’s existence will never satisfy us if in our hearts we refuse to believe or trust God. Some will dismiss the miraculous or attribute it to some natural cause, or find some reason to resist God. The problem does not lie with a lack of evidence...