Connecting faith to life
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John 1:35-37 The next day John was there again with two of his disciples. When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, ‘Look, the Lamb of God!’ When the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus. www.networkchristi an.org
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John 1:35-37
The next day John was there again with two of his disciples. When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, ‘Look, the Lamb of God!’ When the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus.
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John 1:38-39
Turning around, Jesus saw them following and asked, ‘What do you want?’ They said, ‘Rabbi’ (which means Teacher), ‘where are you staying?’ ‘Come,’ he replied, ‘and you will see.’ So they went and saw where he was staying, and spent that day with him. It was about the tenth hour.
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John 1:40-41
Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard what John had said and who had followed Jesus. The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and tell him, ‘We have found the Messiah’ (that is, the Christ).
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John 1:42
And he brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, ‘You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas’ (which, when translated, is Peter).
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Connecting faith to everyday life begins with carving out TIME for growing in faith.
Andrew was a RELIGIOUS man before he knew Christ
DEDICATED time to God means time not spent doing other things.
Religious activity needs to lead us into a closer RELATIONSHIP with Jesus.
Religious activity leads us down a DEAD END road if it becomes an end in itself rather than a bridge to Christ.
When people say that Christians are hypocrites they are saying they can’t see the DIFFERENCE religion makes.
Jesus asks them to examine their MOTIVES
They are not looking for what Jesus can do for them, but to KNOW Him.
We see in Andrew one who simply BROUGHT people to Jesus.
…whether or not we are able to BRING them to Jesus, at least we can say, we BROUGHT Jesus to them.
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My Next Step Today is to:
( ) Do the home life help (in bulletin)( ) Carve out daily time to spend with God.( ) Examine my relationship with Christ beyond mere religious activity( ) Identify where I need to look more like Christ( ) Ask God if there is someone I should invite (or bring) to church next week. ( ) Other________________________
