1. Building a Foundation

2. Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship
“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.” 2 Corinthians 5:20

3. 24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. 

4. 26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.” Matthew 7:24-27

6. Similarities?

7. Similarities?
Both men were building a house

8. Similarities? Both men were building a house
Both men had picked out a foundation

9. Similarities? Both men were building a house
Both men had picked out a foundation
The rain fell on both houses

10. Similarities? Both men were building a house
Both men had picked out a foundation
The rain fell on both houses
The wind beat against both houses

11. Similarities? Both men were building a house
Both men had picked out a foundation
The rain fell on both houses
The wind beat against both houses
Floodwaters rose against both houses

12. Our foundation has to be the gospel

13. The gospel is good news for our past

14. The gospel is good news for our past
The gospel is good news for our present

15. The gospel is good news for our past
The gospel is good news for our present
The gospel is good news for our future

16. ”Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves
 ”Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.” James 1:22

17. -Who is God?

18. -Who is God?
-What has God done?

19. -Who is God?
-What has God done?
-Who are we?

20. -Who is God?
-What has God done?
-Who are we?
-What do we do?

21. “26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”27 So God created mankind in his own image in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.”
Genesis 1:26-27

22. The gospel calls us to be on mission

23. 1 Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, 2 but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night. 3 That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither—whatever they do prospers.
Psalms 1:1-3

25. The gospel is to be lived out in community

26. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.
John 13:35

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