Church is Messy

• Theme Verse: For we are God’s handiwork [masterpiece], created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10
• Series Thesis: We are good works of art created to do the art of good works.

2 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. 3 Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. Ephesians 4:2-3

• 00:00 Intro
• 00:38 Recap of our Outdoor Baptism Service
• 03:23 Overview of Rick's sermon on love yesterday and Bob Ross analogy
• 04:00 Being in Christ and "Bearing with each other in love" or "putting up with" (Ephesians 4:2)
• 07:25 Loving and bearing with others while still having boundaries and accountability
• 10:18 Boundaries for abiding in Jesus and the air conditioning analogy
• 12:32 Explanation of how sin and moral wrong is always a violation love
• 15:11 How does God prune us to make us bear more fruit, be more loving, and find significance, security, and satisfaction in Jesus?
• 19:33 Adversity can show us we have been leaning on the wrong thing
• 22:42 What can we do when we recognize we are placing our significance, security, and satisfaction in the wrong things?
• 24:31 Rick's experience with personal challenges and how they helped him create strategies to better follow Christ and yield to his ways
• 28:51 If we truly believe that we are loved by Jesus and that others are loved by Jesus, what would it really look like?
• 29:45 Are pruning and correction the same, or is pruning for a different purpose?
• 33:13 The Gospel is deep and transforms so much of our lives.