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9. Mike Pullen
Mike Pullen is married to Sandy and has 3 adult children and 3 grandchildren (as of this week). Mike has been involved with First Light since inception and numerous ministries at MBC, serving in Student Ministries, Men’s Ministry, and Global Impact. 
Over the last 15 years Mike Pullen has provided strategic leadership and direction for Youth organizations and Men’s organizations within the DC Metro Area. He has lead short term trips around the world facilitating interaction and transformation in Peru, Hong Kong, Philippines, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Dominican Republic, Haiti, and others. Through these experiences Mike is one of the founding members and current President and Chairman of the Board for Empowering Action (EA) working to bring large-scale holistic, sustainable transformation of impoverished communities, around the world, headquartered in the Dominican Republic. EA’s goal is to
facilitate long-term development not merely provide short-term aid.

10. Why Disciples do
Mike Pullen

11. List as many Relationships as you can.

12. List as many Relationships as you can.1 2 2 1 5 4 3 6 7 8 9 2 5 6 4 3 1 5 8 4 5 3 2 1 6 7 2 3 1 7 9 4 1 9 1 8 7 8 6 2 3 8 9 7 6 4 5 4 5 3 4 2 9 3 5 1 2 6 9 8 7
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13. List as many Relationships as you can.1 5 1 3 2 4 7 6 8 9 2 5 6 4 3 1 5 9 4 5 3 2 1 6 7 2 3 1 8 7 4 2 1 2 9 8 8 7 3 4 9 8 7 5 6 5 6 4 5 3 1 9 4 6 2 3 7 1 9 8
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14. List as many things that make those Relationships work well.

15. List as many things that make those Relationships work well.
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16. List as many things that make those Relationships work well.
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17. List as many things that make those Relationships work poorly.

18. List as many things that make those Relationships work poorly.
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19. List as many things that make those Relationships work poorly.
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20. God Created Everything
7 Days of Creation

21. God Created Everything
7 Days of Creation
Day 1 - God created light and separated the light from the darkness, calling light "day" and darkness "night."

22. God Created Everything
7 Days of Creation
Day 1 - God created light and separated the light from the darkness, calling light "day" and darkness "night."
Day 2 - God created an expanse to separate the waters and called it "sky."

23. God Created Everything
7 Days of Creation
Day 1 - God created light and separated the light from the darkness, calling light "day" and darkness "night."
Day 2 - God created an expanse to separate the waters and called it "sky."
Day 3 - God created the dry ground and gathered the waters, calling the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters "seas." On day three, God also created vegetation (plants and trees).

24. God Created Everything
7 Days of Creation
Day 1 - God created light and separated the light from the darkness, calling light "day" and darkness "night."
Day 2 - God created an expanse to separate the waters and called it "sky."
Day 3 - God created the dry ground and gathered the waters, calling the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters "seas." On day three, God also created vegetation (plants and trees).
Day 4 - God created the sun, moon, and the stars to give light to the earth and to govern and separate the day and the night. These would also serve as signs to mark seasons, days, and years.

25. God Created Everything
7 Days of Creation
Day 1 - God created light and separated the light from the darkness, calling light "day" and darkness "night."
Day 2 - God created an expanse to separate the waters and called it "sky."
Day 3 - God created the dry ground and gathered the waters, calling the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters "seas." On day three, God also created vegetation (plants and trees).
Day 4 - God created the sun, moon, and the stars to give light to the earth and to govern and separate the day and the night. These would also serve as signs to mark seasons, days, and years.
Day 5 - God created every living creature of the seas and every winged bird, blessing them to multiply and fill the waters and the sky with life.

26. God Created Everything
7 Days of Creation
Day 1 - God created light and separated the light from the darkness, calling light "day" and darkness "night."
Day 2 - God created an expanse to separate the waters and called it "sky."
Day 3 - God created the dry ground and gathered the waters, calling the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters "seas." On day three, God also created vegetation (plants and trees).
Day 4 - God created the sun, moon, and the stars to give light to the earth and to govern and separate the day and the night. These would also serve as signs to mark seasons, days, and years.
Day 5 - God created every living creature of the seas and every winged bird, blessing them to multiply and fill the waters and the sky with life.
Day 6 - God created the animals to fill the earth. On day six, God also created man and woman (Adam and Eve) in his own image to commune with him. He blessed them and gave them every creature and the whole earth to rule over, care for, and cultivate.

27. God Created Everything
7 Days of Creation
Day 1 - God created light and separated the light from the darkness, calling light "day" and darkness "night."
Day 2 - God created an expanse to separate the waters and called it "sky."
Day 3 - God created the dry ground and gathered the waters, calling the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters "seas." On day three, God also created vegetation (plants and trees).
Day 4 - God created the sun, moon, and the stars to give light to the earth and to govern and separate the day and the night. These would also serve as signs to mark seasons, days, and years.
Day 5 - God created every living creature of the seas and every winged bird, blessing them to multiply and fill the waters and the sky with life.
Day 6 - God created the animals to fill the earth. On day six, God also created man and woman (Adam and Eve) in his own image to commune with him. He blessed them and gave them every creature and the whole earth to rule over, care for, and cultivate.
Day 7 - God had finished his work of creation and so he rested on the seventh day, blessing it and making it holy.

30. Genesis 1:26
In verse 26, God says, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness ..." This is the only instance in the creation account that God uses the plural form to refer to himself. It's interesting to note that this happens just as he begins to create man. Many scholars believe this is the Bible's first reference to the Trinity.

31. Genesis 2:18  
18Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.”

32. Genesis 3

33. Genesis 3
1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” 2 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, 3 but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’ ” 4 But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.

34. Genesis 3
7 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths. 8 And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?” 10 And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.” 11 He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” 12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.” 13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

35. Genesis 3
14 The Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. 15  I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.” 16 To the woman he said “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”

36. Genesis 3
17 And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; 18  thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. 19  By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

37. Genesis 3
20 The man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living. 21 And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them. 22 Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—” 23 therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. 24 He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.

38. Broken Relationships

39. Broken Relationships
The first relationship broken by sin is man’s relationship with God

40. Broken Relationships
The first relationship broken by sin is man’s relationship with God
The second relationship broken by sin is man’s relationship with self

41. Broken Relationships
The first relationship broken by sin is man’s relationship with God
The second relationship broken by sin is man’s relationship with self
The third relationship broken by sin is man’s relationship with others

42. Broken Relationships
The first relationship broken by sin is man’s relationship with God
The second relationship broken by sin is man’s relationship with self
The third relationship broken by sin is man’s relationship with others
The fourth relationship broken by sin is man’s relationship with creation

44. Matthew 15:32
And Jesus called His disciples to Him, and said, "I feel compassion for the people, because they have remained with Me now three days and have nothing to eat; and I do not want to send them away hungry, for they might faint on the way."

45. John 5:30 (NIV)
By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.

46. 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 (NIV)
14For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. 15And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.

47. Matthew 22:36-40 (NASB)
Matthew 22: New American Standard Bible (NASB)
36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the great and [a]foremost commandment. 39 The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.”

48. Matthew 28:19 (NASB)
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,

49. Matthew 5:43-48 (NASB)
43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 47 If you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? 48 Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

50. John 13:35 (NASB)
"By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."

51. Identifying God’s True Love

52. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (NIV)
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

53. Identifying what is not God’s True Love

54. Philippians 2:3-4
Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.

55. James 3:16 (NASB)
For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing.

56. Romans 8:5
For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

57. Romans 15:3 (NIV)
For even Christ did not please himself but, as it is written: “The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.”

58. Mark 8:34 (NASB)
34 And He summoned the crowd with His disciples, and said to them, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.

59. Matthew 10:42 (NASB)
42 And whoever in the name of a disciple gives to one of these [a]little ones even a cup of cold water to drink, truly I say to you, he shall not lose his reward

60. Ephesians 2:8-9 (NASB)
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and [a]that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.

61. Colossians 1:10 (NASB)
10 so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, [a]to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and [b]increasing in the [c]knowledge of God;

62. Matthew 5:16 (NASB)
16 Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

63. Table Questions
How can you demonstrate God’s love, to all friend or foe?
What can you do to identify Selfishness in your life?
How can you remain focused on reconciling the relationships in your life?
What can you do to impact the world in your circle of influence?
Did today’s scripture change your views on God’s True Love?