2. Week 34 The City Where God Has You (Jeremiah 29:1-13)

3. Jeremiah 29:1-13
1 Peter 2: But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 10 Once you were not a people,

4. Jeremiah 29:1-13
1 Peter 2:9-11 but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. 11 Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul.

5. Jeremiah 29:1-13
God has planted us here

6. Wreckers or Builders?
I watched them tearing a building down, A gang of men in a busy town. With a ho-heave-ho and lusty yell, They swung a beam and a sidewall fell. I asked the foreman, “Are these men skilled, As the men you’d hire if you had to build?” He gave me a laugh and said, “No indeed! Just common labor is all I need. I can easily wreck in a day or two What builders have taken a year to do.”

7. Wreckers or Builders?
And I tho’t to myself as I went my way, Which of these two roles have I tried to play? Am I a builder who works with care, Measuring life by the rule and square? Am I shaping my deeds by a well-made plan, Patiently doing the best I can? Or am I a wrecker who walks the town, Content with the labor of tearing down? — Carmelo Benvenga

8. Jeremiah 29:1-13
God has planted us here
Plans to give you a hope and a future!
Church culture is formed by the things that we value
“God gives lonely people a family. He sets prisoners free, and they go out singing.” (Psalm 68:6)

9. Family = multi-generational
Family Worship- praising God together
Family Teaching- learning about God together
Family Service- serving others for Christ
Family Missions- reaching others for Christ

10. Family = multi-generational
The importance of “why”!
because we are to make an impact where we are

11. Let’s ask Koren