OUTLINE:

A Year+ In Review
• 117 Parts: "The Gospel, Salvation, and Sanctification"
• "The 'Difficult' Passages":
o 4 Parts: "The Gospels" + "The Gospel Context"
o 6 Parts: "Believing"
o 30 Parts: "Grace and Works"

Learning Through Sharing
We have so much we can learn from each other, as each of our lives have a different context and therefore perspective, even as we grow in the Lord.

1Ti 1:5
But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.

Your Diligence Bears Encouraging Fruit
Never underestimate your impact in this world. Honorable diligence produces fruit that others may be encouraged to see. For those engaged in helping you along the way, your fruit becomes their fruit, indirectly. (Pr 13:4; 10:4; Gal 6:9; 1Co 15:58; 2Pe 1:10)

Pro 10:4
Poor is he who works with a negligent hand,
But the hand of the diligent makes rich.

Pro 13:4
The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
But the soul of the diligent is made fat.

Diligence Reaps
When we are diligent, we will reap. Again it's not talent based, or intelligence based; it's based on working hard and being persistent for the Lord.

2Pe 1:10
Diligent = spoudazo; to use speed, i.e. to make effort, be prompt or earnest:

United In Spirit
People that think and love alike are a force to be reckoned with. A congregation like ours may be used to splinter an otherwise unified position our enemy has taken.

The Great Commission & The Lord's Prayer
• He's prepared us (Jn 16)
• He's sent us out (Mt 28:18-20)
• He's prayed for us (Jn 17)

Mt 28:20b
"...I am with you always, even to the end of the age."

Who Is Praying For Us?!
The Perfect Man. And the prayers of a Perfect Man are PERFECT, and they are being made on our behalf, even right now! Heb 7:25, Rom 8:34

The Great Commission & The Lord's Prayer
• He's prepared us (Jn 16)
• He's sent us out (Mt 28:18-20)
• He's prayed for us (Jn 17)

Jn 14:12
"Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father."

The Great Co-mission
What greater miracle is there than for Jesus, Himself, to wrap His loving arms around yet another person and say, "I love you...you are Mine now...and I'm never, ever, EVER letting you go!"