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You Are Gifted
1 Peter 4:7-11
- The End is Near!
- But it wasn't fulfilled on the 23rd...
- The end is near in the same way that:
- A nervous young man is just about to call that special girl for hours
- Our personal end is only a few missed heartbeats away
- Strangely, every writer in the New testament sees that as a call to action, not inaction!
- You are gifted for this "just about" time!
- Gifted with communion with God
- Gifted with Love for one another
- Gifted with the talents and resources to enable your calling, which is ultimately the sharing of God's Grace in this time and place:
- a time when many face an uncertain future, and a meaningless present
- a place that is 3 miles south of 1-20, which is America's #1 highway for human trafficking (part of an $150 billion industry that FAR surpasses in shear numbers the historical estimates of the pre-Civil War slave trade)
- Our mission: to make disciples of Jesus Christ, so that their lives, their worlds, and THE world, may be transformed through the presence of God's grace!
