The Christian Church – Reaching Out To Muslims With the Message and Love of Christ – Summary of Jesus in the Holy Quran – Part 4 #Church #TheChristianChurch #Muslims #Jesus #Muhammad #Christians #Christianity #Islam #religion #islamic #love #Crusades #hate #sword #unity #God #Mary #Disciples #Jihad #easter #Cross Subject – The Christian Church – Reaching Out To Muslims With the Message and Love of Christ – Summary of Jesus in the Holy Quran – Part 4 OTAKADA.org content count 2,115,700 Sunday, 14th of April 2019 Blog link: https://www.otakada.org/ The Christian Church – Reaching Out To Muslims With the Message and Love of Christ – Summary of Jesus in the Holy Quran – Part 4 NUGGETS OF WISDOM “We must keep our vision focused upon the ultimate purposes of God, or we will be distracted by the lesser purposes of God. ” “Love will break the power of fear that has held mankind since the beginning. ” “Our first calling is to fellowship, not works ” “True spiritual unity is based on unity of function, purpose, and love for one another, not just on agreement about every doctrine .” “The pure truth spoken in love, will always attract ” “Even the sharpest human intellect cannot find God unless the Holy Spirit reveals Him. ” “Throughout scripture, God has demonstrated His greatest power where there was the greatest darkness. ” “We all need one another to be the complete reflection of Him .” 1 John 4:17-18 The Message (MSG) To Love, to Be Loved 17-18 God is love. When we take up permanent residence in a life of love, we live in God and God lives in us. This way, love has the run of the house, becomes at home and mature in us, so that we’re free of worry on Judgment Day—our standing in the world is identical with Christ’s. There is no room in love for fear. Well-formed love banishes fear. Since fear is crippling, a fearful life—fear of death, fear of judgment—is one not yet fully formed in love. Key verses for Today: 1 John 4:7-13 English Standard Version (ESV) God Is Love 7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. 13 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. Deuteronomy 6:4-9 The Message (MSG) 4 Attention, Israel! God, our God! God the one and only! 5 Love God, your God, with your whole heart: love him with all that’s in you, love him with all you’ve got! 6-9 Write these commandments that I’ve given you today on your hearts. Get them inside of you and then get them inside your children. Talk about them wherever you are, sitting at home or walking in the street; talk about them from the time you get up in the morning to when you fall into bed at night. Tie them on your hands and foreheads as a reminder; inscribe them on the doorposts of your homes and on your city gates. Matthew 22:37-40 The Message (MSG) 37-40 Jesus said, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence.’ This is the most important, the first on any list. But there is a second to set alongside it: ‘Love others as well as you love yourself.’ These two commands are pegs; everything in God’s Law and the Prophets hangs from them.” John 14:6 6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. Mark 16:15 15 Then he said, “Go into the world. Go everywhere and announce the Message of God’s good news to one and all. 2 Timothy 2:15 15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth. 2 Corinthians 5:20 20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. Acts 2:38 38 Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. John 17:20-23 Message 20-23 I’m praying not only for them But also for those who will believe in me Because of them and their witness about me. The goal is for all of them to become one heart and mind— Just as you, Father, are in me and I in you, So they might be one heart and mind with us. Then the world might believe that you, in fact, sent me. The same glory you gave me, I gave them, So they’ll be as unified and together as we are— I in them and you in me. Then they’ll be mature in this oneness, And give the godless world evidence That you’ve sent me and loved them In the same way you’ve loved me. Introduction Dear brethren, welcome to our forth part series which is meant to equip the Church of Jesus Christ to reach out to Muslims with the message and love of Christ. These series will clear up some misconceptions
