Open the Eyes of My Heart

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A Drink at Joels Place!
Joel 228-32 (Acts 216-21)
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Where Everybody Knows Your Name
Making your way in the world today,
Takes everything youve got.
Taking a
break from all your worries,
Sure would help a lot.
Wouldnt
you like to get away? Sometimes you want to go
where
Everybody knows your name.
And theyre always glad you came.
You want to go where you
can see Our
troubles are all the same.
You want to be where,
Everybody knows your
name. You want to
go where people
Know people are all the same.
You want to go
Where everybody knows your
name.
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Thus, the real question of the hour is what
does John Q. Public find in a bar that he fails
to find in a lukewarm church?
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So a drink at Joels place respectfully refers
to the Lords Church
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Purpose
to better become the church our Lord intended His
Sons Body to be
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I Joels Place Gives ENJOYMENT
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John Q. Pagan gets enjoyment at a bar something
certainly lacking in lukewarm churches
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I Joels Place Gives ENJOYMENT
A. Chief Characteristic of Early Christians
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The early saints, though under adverse
circumstances most of the time, but when they
gathered for worship, their joy was in the Lord
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I Joels Place Gives ENJOYMENT
A. Chief Characteristic of Early Christians
B. Chief Characteristic of God
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Lord would often use exaggeration for emphasis
Look at some of the animals and people He has
created
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I Joels Place Gives ENJOYMENT
A. Chief Characteristic of Early Christians
B. Chief Characteristic of God
C. Chief Characteristic of His Today
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1 John 53
For this is the love of God, that we keep His
commandments and His commandments are not
burdensome.
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When you speak of heaven, let your face light
up, let it be irradiated with a heavenly glean,
let your eyes shine with reflected glory. But
when you speak of hell
Charles H. Spurgeon
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II Joels Place Gives FELLOWSHIP
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koinania
fellowship, aid and/or relief
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II Joels Place Gives FELLOWSHIP
A. To the Hurting
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One great evangelistic tool is that spiritual
blisters are soothed not made at church through
His people
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The church is NOT a hospital instead, it is a
landfill that takes in garbage and turns it into
a park!
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II Joels Place Gives FELLOWSHIP
A. To the Hurting
B. To the Suspicious
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III Joels Place Gives ANONYMITY
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Barkeeps matches moods with their customers. If
their customer is crying in his beer
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III Joels Place Gives ANONYMITY
A. To New Christians
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A certain sense of anonymity must be given to new
Christians
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III Joels Place Gives ANONYMITY
A. To New Christians
B. To New Members
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IV Joels Place Gives THE GOODS
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Coke is the real thing When a customer comes
into a bar A good bar is always true to its
name
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IV Joels Place Gives THE GOODS
A. That Which is Advertised
B. That of the Choicest Product
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True story of a small town nightclub/tavern built
right on Main Street. One of the churches in town
so disturbed about this they conducted
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Conclusion and Summary
Can it be, can a barkeep have firmer convictions
than do church folk? Can a bar really be more
attractive to people and meeting their needs than
the Church of our Lord? Jesus spoke of a drink
that if taken one would never thirst again