1. fully alive
14 May 2017

3. divided

4. isolated

5. isolation
29% increased risk of a heart or angina attack 32% increased risk of having a stroke equivalent to smoking 15 cigarettes a day twice as deadly as obesity increases the risk of dementia, high blood pressure, alcoholism & accidents
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6. You know when we violate God’s design in any area of life –

7. Today, as we continue in this Fully Alive series, I want to talk about “Becoming Relationally Alive”.

8. Philippians 1:27-25

9. Philippians 4:2
I plead with Euodia and I plead with Syntyche to be of the same mind in the Lord.

10. Philippians 2:3-4
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.

11. relationship destroyers
selfishness vain conceit

12. Philippians 2:3-4
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.

13. Eugene Peterson A Long Obedience in the Same Direction
Our culture encourages and rewards selfish ambition without qualification. We are surrounded by a way of life in which betterment is understood as expansion, as acquisition, as fame. Everyone wants to get more for themselves. To be on top, no matter what it is the top of, is admired.

14. Me first You first

15. Genesis 13:8-9
So Abram said to Lot, “Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herders and mine, for we are close relatives. Is not the whole land before you? Let’s part company. If you go to the left, I’ll go to the right; if you go to the right, I’ll go to the left.”

16. disciplined ourselves to defer to others

17. relationship destroyers
selfishness vain conceit empty opinion

18. Philippians 2:3
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves

19. HEALers
What are relationship healers?

20. HEAL
H hold on to the gospel
H hold on to the gospel

21. Philippians 1:27
Whatever happens, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or only hear about you in my absence, I will know that you stand firm in the one Spirit, striving together as one for the faith of the gospel.

22. H hold on to the gospel HEAL
Very often, when you see a relational breakdown between Christians, one or both parties is failing to hold on to the gospel.

23. Gospel in 1, 3, 30 words
Jesus Jesus is Lord

24. sin

25. Sin separates… …us …from who we were …from who we are meant to me …from who we are meant to be with …from who we are meant to be with forever
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26. H hold on to the gospel E embrace your new citizenship
HEAL
H hold on to the gospel E embrace your new citizenship

27. Philippians 1:27
Whatever happens, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or only hear about you in my absence, I will know that you stand firm in the one Spirit, striving together as one for the faith of the gospel.

28. conduct yourselves
politeuesthe
citizenship
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29. Philippians 3:20-21
But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.

30. If Jesus is Lord…
In place of holding a grudge… In place of vengeance… In place of hatred…
…Jesus tells me to forgive. …Jesus tells me to show mercy. …Jesus calls me to love.
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31. HEAL
H hold on to the gospel E embrace your new citizenship A accept the love of God

32. Philippians 2:1-2
Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind.
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33. HEAL
H hold on to the gospel E embrace your new citizenship A accept the love of God L live according to the way of Jesus

34. Philippians 2:5
In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus.

35. 1 John 1:7
and the blood of Jesus, God’s Son, cleanses us from all sin.

36. Jesus reunites… …us …with who we were …with who we are meant to me …with who we are meant to be with …with who we are meant to be with forever

37. The glory of God is a person fully alive!
Irenaeus
The glory of God is a person fully alive!

39. Habakkuk 2:4
Look at that man, bloated by self-importance— full of himself but soul-empty. But the person in right standing before God through loyal and steady believing is fully alive, really alive.

40. H hold on to the gospel E embrace your new citizenship A accept the love of God L live according to the way of Jesus