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Where there is no revelation, people cast off restraint\u2026 Proverbs 29:18 (NIV)\xa0

Vision = a mental image of what the future will or could be like

\u2026upon this rock I will build my church, and all the powers of hell\xa0will not conquer it. Matthew 16:18 (NLT)

He said to them, \u201cGo into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.\xa0 Mark 16:15 (NIV)

For God so loved\xa0the world that he gave\xa0his one and only Son,\xa0that whoever believes\xa0in him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16 (NIV)

Freedom Church exists\u2026 To lead people into a new life of freedom in Jesus

Jesus didn\u2019t die to give us a new RELIGION to follow, but a new LIFE to experience.

The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news\xa0to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners\xa0and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord\u2019s favor. Luke 4:18-19 (NIV)\xa0

And the\xa0Lord\xa0answered me: \u201cWrite the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it. Habakkuk 2:2-3 (ESV)

For still\xa0the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end\u2014it will not lie. If it seems slow,\xa0wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay. Habakkuk 2:2-3 (ESV)\xa0

Message title: \u201cMaking Room for Vision\u201d

Make Room for GOD.

Now this is eternal life: that they know you,\xa0the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. John 17:3 (NIV)\xa0

We keep JESUS the main thing.\xa0

\u2026When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom\xa0as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.\xa0 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 1 Corinthians 2:1-2 (NIV)

JESUS is how the relationship with God BEGINS\u2026 WE determine how the relationship with God GROWS. \xa0

Here I am! I stand at the door\xa0and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door,\xa0I will come in\xa0and eat with that person, and they with me. Revelation 3:20 (NIV)\xa0

Make Room for PEOPLE. (Spending a lot of my time here.)

We do life TOGETHER.

We loved you so much that we shared with you not only God\u2019s Good News but our own lives, too. 1 Thessalonians 2:8 (NLT)

Our walk with God is PERSONAL, but it was never meant to be PRIVATE.

The people WE need.

As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. Proverbs 27:17 (NIV)

The people who need YOU.

Carry each other\u2019s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. Galatians 6:2(NIV)

We are spiritually wired to CAST OUR BURDENS and CARRY OTHER\u2019s BURDENS.\xa0

Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink.\xa0 Whoever believes\xa0in me, as Scripture has said,\xa0rivers of living water\xa0will flow from within them.\u201d John 7:37-38 (NIV)\xa0

If your life stinks right now, could it be because you have become a stagnant pool of unhelth instead of a flowing river of life?

The next generation who need US.\xa0

We will not hide these truths from our children; we will tell the next generation about the glorious deeds of the\xa0Lord, about his power and his mighty wonders. Psalm 78:4 (NLT)

We believe in the next generation.

The lost people who need JESUS.

\xa0On hearing this, Jesus said,\xa0\u201cIt is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.\xa0 But go and learn what this means: \u2018I desire mercy, not sacrifice.\u2019\xa0For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.\u201d Matthew 9:12-13 (NIV)

Make Room for THE PART WE PLAY.

\u201cThe harvest is great, but the workers are few. So pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest; ask him to send more workers into his fields. Luke 10:2 (NLT)\xa0

The effectiveness of the Church reaching lost people, is contingent on each person in the Church doing THEIR PART.

There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit\xa0distributes them.\xa0 There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord.\xa0 There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone\xa0it is the same God\xa0at work... 1 Corinthians 12:4-27 (NIV)

But in fact God has placed\xa0the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be.\xa0 If they were all one part, where would the body be?\xa0 As it is, there are many parts, but one body\u2026 1 Corinthians 12:4-27 (NIV)

Now you are the body of Christ,\xa0and each one of you is a part of it.\xa01 Corinthians 12:4-27 (NIV)

Too many of us are DISTRACTED by our PROBLEMS, because we have not DISCOVERED our PURPOSE.

Make Room for WHAT\u2019S NEXT.\xa0

We live with URGENCY.\xa0

Now to him who is able\xa0to do immeasurably more than all we ask\xa0or imagine, according to his power\xa0that is at work within us,\xa0to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. Ephesians 3:20-21 (NIV)