Deuteronomy 6:4-9 4 “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. 5 You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. 

First Table of the Law: Love God Second Table of the Law: Love Neighbor

First Table of the Law: Love God Second Table of the Law: Love Neighbor

First Table of the Law: Love God Second Table of the Law: Love Neighbor Sabbath Observance Don’t Steal Don’t Covet No Other God’s Before me Don’t Murder Don’t Misuse God’s Name Don’t Commit Adultery Don’t Give False Testimony Don’t make idols Honor Your Parents

First Table of the Law: Love God Second Table of the Law: Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. First Table of the Law: Love God Second Table of the Law: Love Neighbor Sabbath Observance Don’t Steal Don’t Covet No Other God’s Before me Don’t Murder Don’t Misuse God’s Name Don’t Commit Adultery Don’t Give False Testimony Don’t make idols Honor Your Parents

“You can’t not love. It’s why the heart is the seat and fulcrum of the human person, the engine that drives out existence. We are lovers first and foremost. If we think about this in terms of the quest or journey metaphor, we might say that the human heart is part compass and part internal guidance system. The heart is like a multifunctional desire device that is part of engine and part homing beacon… You are what you love because you live towards what you want.” James K.A. Smith, You are What You Love, pg.12

After Nero’s persecution in the mid-first century, the churches in the Roman Empire closed their worship services to visitors. Deacons stood at the churches’ doors, serving as bouncers, checking to see that no unbaptized person, no ‘lying informer,’ could come in… And yet the church was growing. Officially it was a superstition. Prominent people scorned it. Neighbors discriminated against the Christians in countless petty ways… It was hard to be a Christian… And still the church grew. Why? Alan Kreider,They Alone Know the Right Way to Life: The Early Church and Evangelism, pg. 169-70

[The early church’s] concern for the weak and the poor, their integrity in the face of persecution, their economic sharing, their sacrificial love even for their enemies, and the high quality of their common life together- attracted nonbelievers to the gospel. Once nonbelievers were attracted to the community by the lives of Christians, they became open to talking about the gospel truths that were the source of this kind of life.” Tim Keller, Center Church, pg.285

One Confession:Jesus is Lord Pure Worship:Love God Result: Love Neighbor Worship Discipleship Mission Sphere of Influence

One Confession:Jesus is Lord Pure Worship:Love God Result: Love Neighbor Sphere of Influence Result: Surprised by love

Result: Love Neighbor Result: One Confession:Jesus is Lord Pure Worship:Love God Result: Love Neighbor Sphere of Influence Result: Surprised by love Drawn to Worship:Love God

} } } } } Result: Love Neighbor Result: One Confession:Jesus is Lord “Hear, O Israel, The Lord Your God, the Lord is One.” } One Confession:Jesus is Lord Pure Worship:Love God Result: Love Neighbor “Love the Lord with all you heart, soul, mind and strength.” } “Love your neighbor as yourself.” - Mark 12:29-31 } Sphere of Influence } “They will see your good works and… Result: Surprised by love Drawn to Worship:Love God and glorify your Father in heaven.” - Matthew 5:16 } One Confession:Jesus is Lord