We belong together...We are Family!

Published: Sept. 16, 2019, 10 a.m.

b'Coffee Shop Conversations\\nWe belong together\\u2026We are Family!\\nSeptember 15, 2019\\n\\nConversation with Max\\n\\nWe all Belong\\n\\n1 Peter 2:9-11 New Living Translation (NLT)\\n\\n \\u201cOne Body with Many Parts\\u201d\\nThe human body has many parts, but the many parts make up one whole body. So it is with the body of Christ.\\n1 Corinthians 12:12 (NLT)\\n\\nThe church is designed to be the body of Christ, of which He is the head.\\n\\nThe organism of the church\\n\\n\\u2022\\tThe Body \\u2013 1 Peter 2:9-11, 1 Corinthians 12:12\\n\\t\\n\\u2022\\tThe Culture \\u2013 Acts 2:42-47, James 5:19-20\\n\\n\\u2022\\tThe Impact \\u2013 2 Corinthians 5:20 (NLT), Acts 8:35-40 (NLT), Acts 16:1-5\\n\\nWe belong to a huge, beautiful and diverse family. All are welcome, we are part of this amazing family through Jesus. We are adopted as sons and daughters of God, because of the grace we receive through Jesus. We cannot earn it or ever be worthy apart from Jesus. We are a family and we belong in Jesus!\\n\\nGrace brings us in and grace keeps us together, like sticky glue.\\n\\nSticky Grace, nothing can separate us from God\\u2019s love!\\nIn the same way sticky grace should keep us united so nothing can separate us from each other in the family of God!'