Growing Deeper 2

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Growing Deeper 2

• Balancing the relationships of life

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ABIDING
FRUITFULNESS
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Growing Deeper 2

• Balancing the relationships of life

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One solitary life
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Jesus lived in relationships

• Upwards with his Father
• Inwards with his chosen followers
• Outwards with the world around him

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Luke 6 12

• One of those days Jesus went out to a
  mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying
  to God.

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To God
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Luke 6 13-16

• When morning came, he called his disciples to him
  and chose twelve of them, whom he also designated
  apostles
• Simon (whom he named Peter), his brother Andrew,
  James, John, Philip, Bartholomew,

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• Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Simon who
  was called the Zealot,
• Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who
  became a traitor.

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To each other
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Luke 6 17-19

• He went down with them and stood on a level
  place. A large crowd of his disciples was there
  and a great number of people from all over Judea,
  from Jerusalem, and from the coast of Tyre and
  Sidon,

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• who had come to hear him and to be healed of
  their diseases. Those troubled by evil spirits
  were cured, and the people all tried to touch
  him, because power was coming from him and
  healing them all.

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To the wider world
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UP
To God
OUT
IN
To the wider world
To each other
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Worship Love the Lord your God
Community Love your neighbour
Witness Go and make disciples
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Micah 6 8

• He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what
  does the LORD require of you?
• To act justly and to love mercy and to walk
  humbly with your God.

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2 out of 3

• We tend to be able to manage 2 out of 3 most of
  the time
• So do churches and small groups
• The Triangle (UP-IN-OUT) can help us by
  challenging us to keep all 3 dimensions going

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UP
OUT
IN
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Matthew 9 35

• Jesus went through all the towns and villages,
  teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good
  news of the kingdom and healing every disease and
  sickness.

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John 10 10

• I have come that you might have life, life in
  all its fullness.
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• I have come that you might have life in all its
  many colours.