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 Good morning, everyone.

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 May we bow our heads and pray together before we look at God's Word together.

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 Father, I pray that you would take my feeble words and in the power of your Spirit, change

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 them into life-giving words.

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 Father, we pray that this morning, even in this extreme heat, Father, you would be able

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 to send down your fire upon us.

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 Lord, that we might be the people that you call us to be in Jesus Christ, our Lord.

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 Amen.

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 So a verse from Ephesians chapter 4, Paul says this, as a prisoner for the Lord there, then

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 I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.

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 The German theologian Jürgen Moltmann, in an interview that was done just a few months

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 ago, he's a very elderly man now.

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 He's been a very influential theologian, though I would suspect most of you have never heard

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 of him.

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 Moltmann said this, he said, the opposite of poverty is not wealth, it's community.

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 Let me say that again.

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 I want you to lodge that thought in your mind as I proceed with this talk.

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 Come to think about it, I don't think in the Jewish council of Sanhedrin there was much

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 talk about social mobility or anything like that.

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 But somehow that early Christian community lived in an amazing way that we read in Acts chapter

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 4 and verse 36, check it out if you don't believe me, that there were no needy persons among

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 them.

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 Why was that?

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 Because they were living in community.

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 What does it mean to live in community?

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 Well, a community is a people group, but not all people groups are communities.

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 Because a community is defined by one really important aspect, and it's this.

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 It's defined by the fact that when we are in community, we start to take responsibility for one another.

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 When one of us weeps, we all weep.

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 When one of us rejoices, we all rejoice.

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 When one of us is in need, we respond faithfully to that need.

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 Some of you are sitting there saying to yourselves, well, hang on, that sounds a bit inward looking.

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 That sounds a bit like cozy Christianity, if ever I heard of it.

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 Except that God expects Christian community to spill out into the community around us.

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 Tim, I think, used the phrase when he prayed for us just now.

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 To serve the community.

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 The Christian community will never be content to just serve its own needs.

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 It will have its eyes open to the world.

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 I think it was William Booth who said, was it not, that he always had an open Bible, but also an open newspaper.

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 So let me ask you a question.

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 Do you think the church of God creates community?

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 Or do you think the church of God works best where there is an existing community that it can kind of latch on to?

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 Don't shout your answer out, but just think about that for a moment.

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 It's a very critical question in its way.

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 Well, the research, I think, is probably a bit counterintuitive.

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 It's what the research, and to be truthful, the research is not what you would call, you know, there are not huge volumes of it.

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 But what the research tends to point towards is that the church does best where there is an existing community that it can work with.

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 In a previous life, when I was the Bishop of Buckingham, I had the privilege of having Milton Keynes within my jurisdiction.

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 In Milton Keynes, miraculously, the church in those days, that was in like 1972, was actually invited to be a part of the Milton Keynes Development Corporation.

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 And boy, did they milk it.

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 They made sure that there were allotted land to build churches in every second grid square in Milton Keynes.

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 They applied funding to Milton Keynes to make sure that in every other grid square there was a full-time clergy person and it was ecumenical.

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 So very often there were four or five full-time clergy working in an ecumenical parish, which consisted of two grid squares in Milton Keynes.

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 Probably top-end 7,000 people.

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 Let me tell you, even today, Milton Keynes is a massive red mark on the accounts of the Diocese of Oxford.

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 Very few of those churches have reached what you might call a critical mass that's needed to run a church in the 21st century.

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 Very few of them have even 100 members, never mind the 150 members that most church growth people would consider.

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 Why was that?

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 Well, it was trying to create church, community ex nihilo.

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 That means from nothing.

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 The church has always done better, though in our time it's not doing particularly well at the moment.

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 But the church has always done really well when it can fasten on to an existing community.

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 You know what people tell me about Clevedon?

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 They tell me that what they like about Clevedon is that sense of community.

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 That should make us open our eyes, start to breathe a little more heavily, and let our heartbeats become a little quicker, unless you've got a heart issue.

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 Okay.

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 So, does the church live in community today?

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 Well, researchers have looked at Christians over the years in terms of three sorts of Christians.

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 One is what they call committed Christians.

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 Those are people who regularly attend church, regularly give of their income, regularly pray,

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 regularly can give some evidence that their whole lives are based on the leadership and the guidance of God.

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 Then there are what researchers call cynical Christians.

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 Those are people who were Christians and are now no longer Christians, sorry, are no longer involved with the church,

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 though they would still claim to be Christians, but the church has put them dramatically off expressing their faith.

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 Frighteningly, they are a growing number of people, and we can be critical of them, but of course,

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 really what we ought to do is look in the mirror and ask ourselves as a church,

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 what is so wrong with us that people who are once on fire with for the Lord will no longer come anywhere near us?

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 And indeed, if you get them on the subject of church,

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 you will start to imagine that they've had a sudden attack of Tourette's syndrome or something.

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 The third kind of Christian proliferates in the Church of England.

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 They're called cultural Christians.

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 They're people who generally subscribe to the idea of church.

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 They may send their children to church schools.

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 They may even attend church on a relatively regular basis.

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 They may even give some of their money to the church.

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 But actually, they have never appropriated, they've never made their own the message of the gospel.

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 The thing about committed Christians is this.

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 Their research consistently shows that in any one church,

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 20% of the membership of that church falls into the committed Christian delineation.

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 80% do not, for different reasons.

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 That means that in most churches, 20% of the people provide 80% of the money,

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 80% of the horsepower, 80% of the gifts, 80% of just about blooming well everything.

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 While the other 80% passively watch on.

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 I want to say to you, I know some of you,

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 and I know that some of you are very committed Christians,

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 and I thank God for that.

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 But I will thank God even more,

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 when the 80% of our church,

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 that actually allows the 20% to supply all the horsepower and the money, etc., etc.,

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 step up,

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 and make it 21%,

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 22%,

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 23%.

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 And I want you to think about that,

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 because I'm going to ask you,

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 at the end of this message,

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 whether or not you're prepared to stand up,

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 not literally,

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 well, maybe literally,

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 to stand up and say,

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 from today onwards,

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 I am going to put myself in that 20% bracket.

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 Because unless we do,

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 we will never start to be the church that God calls us to be.

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 I don't know how much you read your Bibles,

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 but I do know this,

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 that if you read the Acts of the Apostles,

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 you would realize this,

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 you would realize that that church functioned as a community.

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 Here's a novel idea, Acts chapter 2, verse 44, I think it is,

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 where the writer tells us, Luke tells us,

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 that when someone was in need,

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 they would sell their possessions to meet that other person's need.

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 Friends, we're a long way away from that.

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 Can you imagine a day,

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 when we could put our hands up in church and say,

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 there are no needy people amongst us,

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 because we live as a community,

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 and we take responsibility for each other.

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 When somebody weeps, we weep.

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 When somebody rejoices, we rejoice.

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 When somebody is in need,

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 we respond generously.

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 Firstly,

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 so, we come to Ephesians chapter 4.

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 I'm sorry for a long introduction.

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 Okay, this tests your forgiveness level.

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 Ephesians chapter 4, verses 1 to 16.

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 What Paul is doing there,

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 is doing something really important for us to pay attention to today.

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 He is giving a thumbprint of what the church should look like.

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 And he has three things that he says there,

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 conveniently for my message.

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 The first thing is, he says,

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 unity, unity is critical.

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 The second thing he says is,

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 slightly ambiguously,

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 is that diversity is important.

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 And the third thing he says is,

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 if we're getting this right,

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 we're going to grow up.

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 You know, I know

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 a lot of members of churches are,

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 you know, middle-aged to elderly,

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 and that's great.

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 But don't assume,

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 because you're middle-aged or elderly,

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 that you're mature.

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 Some of the most childish people I know are old.

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 I may be one of them.

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 So, unity.

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 Paul says,

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 endeavity,

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 endeavour,

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 endeavour.

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 You've got to put effort

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 into the idea

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 that the church would be unified.

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 Of course,

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 Paul didn't know about ecumenism.

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 He didn't have a clue about Methodists or Baptists,

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 because they'd not been invented at this stage.

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 Paul was talking about us,

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 the local church.

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 He's saying,

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 the way it's meant to work is like this,

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 that where there are differences amongst you,

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 Jesus has given you the resources

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 to offer forgiveness to one another.

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 This is not a place

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 where we excel

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 in trolling each other on social media.

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 This is not a place

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 where we gossip behind people's backs,

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 although we've invented a language

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 for doing that, haven't we?

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 Isn't it great

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 when you hear one Christian say,

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 I just want to share with you about Harry,

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 when basically what they're going to do

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 is some character assassination attempt.

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 Now, Paul says,

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 we've got to work hard

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 at unifying.

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 Now, the trouble is,

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 that it'd be easy

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 if we were all the same,

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 wouldn't it?

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 Come on to this,

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 we're all very different.

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 We hold different opinions.

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 I mean, in my view,

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 some people's opinions are bonkers,

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 but it's their opinion.

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 And what I mustn't do,

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 said Paul,

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 is fall out with them.

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 Paul uses

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 a very interesting analogy there.

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 I don't know if you noticed it

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 in the first four or five verses.

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 He uses the analogy

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 of God the Holy Trinity,

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 Father,

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 Son,

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 and Holy Spirit.

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 And just as these are one

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 and all one,

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 but they are separate,

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 different,

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 so they work together

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 in unity.

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 It would be unthinkable

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 that the Holy Trinity,

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 you know,

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 that the Holy Spirit

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 would do a bit of muttering

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 about Jesus

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 or vice versa.

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 So we're called,

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 literally,

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 to love one another

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 with agape love.

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 That doesn't mean

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 I can feel good

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 about everybody in church,

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 but it does mean

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 I can want the best for them.

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 I can set my heart

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 to want the best for them.

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 Second thing is,

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 slightly ambiguously,

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 the diversity of the church.

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 Paul says in Ephesians 4,

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 round about verse 7,

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 he said,

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 to each one of us,

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 grace has been given

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 as Christ apportioned it.

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 The scholars think

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 that what Paul is talking about there

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 is the gifts,

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 the charismata,

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 the gifts of God's grace.

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 Here's the truth.

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 If you are a believer,

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 if you cross the line

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 and accepted the gospel,

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 then God has given you

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 spiritual gifts.

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 And let me tell you

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 that one of the reasons

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 why a lot of people

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 are frustrated in churches

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 is very simply this,

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 that they don't know

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 what their spiritual gifts are

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 and therefore

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 they can't exercise them.

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 So church, to them,

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 can feel all push,

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 all shove.

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 No freedom,

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 no liberation

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 to exercise my gifts.

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 We have different gifts.

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 Paul makes that clear

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 in Romans

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 and in the Corinthian literature.

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 He makes it very clear.

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 There's lists of gifts there.

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 I don't think they're meant

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 to be exhaustive lists,

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 but there are lists there.

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 And what Paul is saying is,

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 though we all have different gifts,

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 we're supposed to work

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 like a body.

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 You remember Paul uses

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 that phrase a lot,

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 the body of Christ.

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 And he says,

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 when a body's working healthily,

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 all its parts work in unity.

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 Some of you at the age,

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 I'm one of them,

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 you know,

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 I'm starting to realize

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 that my body's not quite

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 as in unity as it used to be.

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 But nevertheless,

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 that's the ideal.

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 that when we offer our gifts

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 to serve one another

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 and to serve the world,

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 then the church becomes

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 what God intended it to be.

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 So a church where there's

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 no relational unity,

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 a church where half the membership

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 don't have a clue

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 what their spiritual gifts are.

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 By the way,

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 not all spiritual gifts are weird.

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 If you're sitting there

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 and your weird meter

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 is starting to flicker

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 with talks of spiritual gifts,

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 let me just reassure you,

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 it's not like that.

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 Some of those gifts

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 are very basic gifts.

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 You know what Paul says

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 is a gift?

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 If Catherine was in here,

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 she's not right now,

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 she'd be very pleased to know

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 that the gift of administration

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 is written down there.

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 That's not spooky,

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 is it?

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 That's kind of down-to-earth,

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 everyday,

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 necessary gift

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 for the successful running

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 of any organization.

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 Paul says,

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 leadership is a gift.

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 That's not spooky.

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 I mean,

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 there's been more stuff

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 written about leadership

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 in the last 30 years

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 than just about

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 any other subject

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 than non-fictional literature.

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 So we're supposed to be a place

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 where we get on together

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 despite our differences,

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 and in fact,

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 what we need to do

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 is to learn to celebrate

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 our differences.

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 I don't know what you do,

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 you know,

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 when somebody comes up

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 and verbalizes

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 an opinion

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 that you think is,

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 you don't think much of.

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 I have a friend like this

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 and she constantly

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 is saying things

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 that I think are just loony.

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 Right?

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 She's not a Christian.

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 And if I even

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 try and scratch the surface

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 of why she would

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 conceivably think this,

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 she goes ape,

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 starts shouting,

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 listen,

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 we can't be like that.

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 Relational unity

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 is critical

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 to an effective church.

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 and trust me,

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 I can tell you

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 that the one thing

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 that messes up a church

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 just about more

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 than anything else

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 is where bad relationships exist.

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 Up and down this country,

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 I can only speak about

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 the Church of England

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 because it's the only one

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 I got real experience of.

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 Up and down this country,

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 there are churches

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 where two or three people

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 cause mayhem

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 and nobody

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 loves them enough

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 to challenge them.

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 Notice the way I put that.

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 Nobody loves them enough

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 to challenge them.

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 Diversity is important

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 because God made us different

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 and gave us different gifts

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 and what we're supposed to do

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 is bring those gifts,

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 offer them to Jesus

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 and see the ministry

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 of the church go.

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 And finally,

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 maturity.

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 I know you're all too humble

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 to admit

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 that you might be mature.

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 And it's very difficult

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 to assess

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 other than

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 maybe the people

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 who love you enough

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 to tell you the truth

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 might give you

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 an angle on that.

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 But Paul says

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 this is really important

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 that we don't end up

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 being the kind of people

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 who become captive

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 to wrong-headed ideas

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 in society

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 and in the world

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 and in the church.

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 I used to speak

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 on a speaking circuit

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 with a former bishop.

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 Not even sure

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 whether he's still alive.

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 He was the bishop of Durham.

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 He was very controversial.

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 Some of you will remember

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 that he articulated

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 the belief

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 that as a bishop

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 he no longer believed

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 in the physical resurrection

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 of Jesus.

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 Don't ask me out.

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 I ended up

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 on speaking platforms

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 with him.

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 And

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 I would speak

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 about the church

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 and the future

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 and he would speak

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 about faith

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 and the future.

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 Incidentally

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 he thought

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 very passionately

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 that 9-11

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 changed everything.

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 I don't know

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 if he was right

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 about that

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 but it interested me

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 that he would say it.

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 I tell you

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 what I really loved

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 about this man.

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 I never saw him speak

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 when he didn't

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 break down in tears

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 and say

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 that the cost

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 of discipleship

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 for him

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 was crucifying.

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 And the reason

00:22:03.180 --> 00:22:04.000
 that impressed me

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 was

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 I thought

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 wow

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 that's exceptional

00:22:06.800 --> 00:22:07.680
 to hear that kind

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 actually

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 the cost

00:22:11.320 --> 00:22:12.240
 of discipleship

00:22:12.240 --> 00:22:13.400
 for every believer

00:22:13.400 --> 00:22:15.900
 should be crucifying.

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 It should cost us.

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 Jesus didn't assume

00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:22.560
 there would be

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 some brothers

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 and sisters

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 within the new

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 community

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 of Christians

00:22:26.019 --> 00:22:27.960
 who would pay

00:22:27.960 --> 00:22:28.800
 that cost

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 and some who

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 would just get

00:22:30.560 --> 00:22:31.240
 away with it.

00:22:32.660 --> 00:22:33.019
 No.

00:22:33.860 --> 00:22:34.860
 All of us

00:22:34.860 --> 00:22:35.420
 should bear

00:22:35.420 --> 00:22:36.140
 that cost.

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 So where's

00:22:38.160 --> 00:22:38.640
 all this

00:22:38.640 --> 00:22:40.259
 leading us?

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 Well I want

00:22:41.720 --> 00:22:42.440
 to say this

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 and I don't

00:22:43.180 --> 00:22:43.860
 often feel

00:22:43.860 --> 00:22:44.720
 I have a prophetic

00:22:44.720 --> 00:22:45.900
 word to the church

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 but I do

00:22:47.880 --> 00:22:48.720
 want to say

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 if ever

00:22:49.940 --> 00:22:50.940
 the church

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 you and me

00:22:52.000 --> 00:22:53.759
 needed

00:22:53.759 --> 00:22:54.720
 to be

00:22:54.720 --> 00:22:55.440
 a true

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 community

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 in the light

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 of COVID

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 it would be

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 now.

00:23:01.099 --> 00:23:04.500
 there are

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 a lot

00:23:05.099 --> 00:23:06.059
 of bereaved

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 a lot

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 of lonely

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 a lot

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 of empty

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 a lot

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 of angry

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 a lot

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 of emotionally

00:23:15.299 --> 00:23:16.359
 tied up

00:23:16.359 --> 00:23:16.740
 people

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 in our

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 community

00:23:17.740 --> 00:23:19.899
 who

00:23:19.899 --> 00:23:20.579
 desperately

00:23:20.579 --> 00:23:21.279
 need

00:23:21.279 --> 00:23:21.719
 to be

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 set free

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 and what

00:23:24.940 --> 00:23:25.560
 they don't

00:23:25.560 --> 00:23:26.019
 need at

00:23:26.019 --> 00:23:26.600
 this stage

00:23:26.600 --> 00:23:26.980
 in their

00:23:26.980 --> 00:23:27.320
 life

00:23:27.320 --> 00:23:27.720
 is a

00:23:27.720 --> 00:23:28.060
 church

00:23:28.060 --> 00:23:28.259
 that

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 would

00:23:28.400 --> 00:23:28.600
 put

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 them

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 off

00:23:28.940 --> 00:23:29.279
 forever.

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 Remember

00:23:31.960 --> 00:23:32.660
 Nietzsche

00:23:32.660 --> 00:23:33.140
 in one

00:23:33.140 --> 00:23:33.420
 of his

00:23:33.420 --> 00:23:33.840
 novels

00:23:33.840 --> 00:23:34.320
 writes

00:23:34.320 --> 00:23:34.800
 about

00:23:34.800 --> 00:23:37.019
 the

00:23:37.019 --> 00:23:37.560
 madman

00:23:37.560 --> 00:23:39.259
 who

00:23:39.259 --> 00:23:40.360
 was

00:23:40.360 --> 00:23:40.620
 sitting

00:23:40.620 --> 00:23:40.980
 on the

00:23:40.980 --> 00:23:41.340
 steps

00:23:41.340 --> 00:23:41.700
 of the

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 church

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 screaming

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 God

00:23:43.380 --> 00:23:43.580
 is

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 dead

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 God

00:23:44.300 --> 00:23:44.480
 is

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 dead

00:23:44.860 --> 00:23:45.100
 God

00:23:45.100 --> 00:23:45.300
 is

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 dead

00:23:45.580 --> 00:23:45.740
 and

00:23:45.740 --> 00:23:45.900
 the

00:23:45.900 --> 00:23:46.160
 people

00:23:46.160 --> 00:23:46.340
 went

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 up

00:23:46.519 --> 00:23:46.660
 to

00:23:46.660 --> 00:23:46.800
 him

00:23:46.800 --> 00:23:47.259
 and

00:23:47.259 --> 00:23:47.400
 they

00:23:47.400 --> 00:23:47.680
 said

00:23:47.680 --> 00:23:47.840
 to

00:23:47.840 --> 00:23:48.100
 him

00:23:48.100 --> 00:23:48.860
 why

00:23:48.860 --> 00:23:49.019
 do

00:23:49.019 --> 00:23:49.120
 you

00:23:49.120 --> 00:23:49.300
 think

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 God

00:23:49.560 --> 00:23:49.740
 is

00:23:49.740 --> 00:23:50.060
 dead

00:23:50.060 --> 00:23:50.279
 and

00:23:50.279 --> 00:23:50.420
 his

00:23:50.420 --> 00:23:50.740
 answer

00:23:50.740 --> 00:23:50.920
 was

00:23:50.920 --> 00:23:51.160
 very

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 simple

00:23:51.640 --> 00:23:52.300
 he

00:23:52.300 --> 00:23:52.480
 said

00:23:52.480 --> 00:23:52.740
 because

00:23:52.740 --> 00:23:52.940
 I

00:23:52.940 --> 00:23:53.160
 went

00:23:53.160 --> 00:23:53.320
 to

00:23:53.320 --> 00:23:53.800
 church

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 I

00:23:57.320 --> 00:23:57.460
 think

00:23:57.460 --> 00:23:57.560
 it

00:23:57.560 --> 00:23:57.780
 was

00:23:57.780 --> 00:23:58.580
 Oscar

00:23:58.580 --> 00:23:59.000
 Wilde

00:23:59.000 --> 00:23:59.140
 who

00:23:59.140 --> 00:23:59.480
 said

00:23:59.480 --> 00:23:59.759
 a

00:23:59.759 --> 00:24:00.460
 cocktail

00:24:00.460 --> 00:24:01.040
 party

00:24:01.040 --> 00:24:01.220
 is

00:24:01.220 --> 00:24:01.380
 a

00:24:01.380 --> 00:24:01.680
 social

00:24:01.680 --> 00:24:02.360
 device

00:24:02.360 --> 00:24:03.320
 designed

00:24:03.320 --> 00:24:03.580
 to

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 help

00:24:04.180 --> 00:24:04.520
 people

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 not

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 meet

00:24:05.120 --> 00:24:05.380
 each

00:24:05.380 --> 00:24:05.680
 other

00:24:05.680 --> 00:24:08.640
 wouldn't

00:24:08.640 --> 00:24:08.740
 it

00:24:08.740 --> 00:24:09.000
 be a

00:24:09.000 --> 00:24:09.460
 tragedy

00:24:09.460 --> 00:24:11.820
 if

00:24:11.820 --> 00:24:12.000
 a

00:24:12.000 --> 00:24:12.280
 church

00:24:12.280 --> 00:24:12.440
 was

00:24:12.440 --> 00:24:12.600
 a

00:24:12.600 --> 00:24:13.060
 place

00:24:13.060 --> 00:24:14.660
 where

00:24:14.660 --> 00:24:15.020
 people

00:24:15.020 --> 00:24:15.240
 were

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 put

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 off

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 from

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 meeting

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 with

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 God

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 church

00:24:19.640 --> 00:24:19.800
 is

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 not

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 going

00:24:20.120 --> 00:24:20.240
 to

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 set

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 you

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 free

00:24:20.840 --> 00:24:21.360
 friends

00:24:21.359 --> 00:24:22.939
 God

00:24:22.939 --> 00:24:23.319
 is

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 going

00:24:23.479 --> 00:24:23.599
 to

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 set

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 you

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 free

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 and

00:24:25.619 --> 00:24:25.779
 the

00:24:25.779 --> 00:24:26.139
 reason

00:24:26.139 --> 00:24:26.519
 we

00:24:26.519 --> 00:24:26.799
 need

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 to

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 live

00:24:27.240 --> 00:24:27.859
 truly

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 as

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 community

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 let me

00:24:29.339 --> 00:24:29.740
 tell you

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 as a

00:24:29.979 --> 00:24:30.240
 church

00:24:30.240 --> 00:24:30.439
 in

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 Bristol

00:24:30.839 --> 00:24:31.859
 where

00:24:31.859 --> 00:24:32.539
 150

00:24:32.539 --> 00:24:33.119
 of

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 them

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 have

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 actually

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 moved

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 out

00:24:34.439 --> 00:24:34.559
 of

00:24:34.559 --> 00:24:34.740
 their

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 homes

00:24:35.059 --> 00:24:35.319
 and

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 lived

00:24:35.579 --> 00:24:35.979
 together

00:24:35.979 --> 00:24:36.199
 in

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 community

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 I'm

00:24:37.259 --> 00:24:37.419
 not

00:24:37.419 --> 00:24:37.740
 asking

00:24:37.740 --> 00:24:37.939
 you

00:24:37.939 --> 00:24:38.059
 to

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 do

00:24:38.259 --> 00:24:38.599
 that

00:24:38.599 --> 00:24:39.879
 though

00:24:39.879 --> 00:24:40.000
 you

00:24:40.000 --> 00:24:40.240
 might

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 consider

00:24:40.679 --> 00:24:40.979
 it

00:24:40.979 --> 00:24:44.039
 I'm

00:24:44.039 --> 00:24:44.479
 saying

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 community

00:24:45.579 --> 00:24:46.299
 starts

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 where

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 we

00:24:47.240 --> 00:24:47.599
 start

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 to

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 take

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 responsibility

00:24:48.799 --> 00:24:49.279
 for

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 one

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 another

00:24:49.940 --> 00:24:52.440
 and it

00:24:52.440 --> 00:24:53.120
 continues

00:24:53.120 --> 00:24:53.640
 where we

00:24:53.640 --> 00:24:54.140
 start to

00:24:54.140 --> 00:24:54.380
 take

00:24:54.380 --> 00:24:55.340
 responsibility

00:24:55.340 --> 00:24:56.320
 for the

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 thousands of

00:24:57.019 --> 00:24:57.480
 people in

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 this town

00:24:58.019 --> 00:24:58.580
 who are

00:24:58.580 --> 00:24:59.200
 not in

00:24:59.200 --> 00:24:59.519
 church

00:24:59.519 --> 00:24:59.960
 today

00:24:59.960 --> 00:25:02.660
 and what

00:25:02.660 --> 00:25:02.980
 will make

00:25:02.980 --> 00:25:03.759
 the difference

00:25:03.759 --> 00:25:05.799
 is when

00:25:05.799 --> 00:25:06.360
 those of

00:25:06.360 --> 00:25:06.900
 you who

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 are

00:25:07.240 --> 00:25:08.000
 what

00:25:08.000 --> 00:25:08.660
 Dan

00:25:08.660 --> 00:25:09.460
 Postieski

00:25:09.460 --> 00:25:09.860
 calls

00:25:09.860 --> 00:25:10.920
 decaffeinated

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 Christians

00:25:11.740 --> 00:25:13.200
 that is

00:25:13.200 --> 00:25:13.400
 your

00:25:13.400 --> 00:25:13.900
 Christianity

00:25:13.900 --> 00:25:14.880
 is designed

00:25:14.880 --> 00:25:15.640
 not to keep

00:25:15.640 --> 00:25:16.140
 you awake

00:25:16.140 --> 00:25:16.600
 at night

00:25:16.599 --> 00:25:20.899
 when

00:25:20.899 --> 00:25:21.399
 you

00:25:21.399 --> 00:25:22.679
 the

00:25:22.679 --> 00:25:23.639
 80%

00:25:23.639 --> 00:25:25.679
 decide to

00:25:25.679 --> 00:25:26.439
 step up

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 and become

00:25:28.079 --> 00:25:28.539
 part of

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 the 20%

00:25:29.379 --> 00:25:29.879
 so the

00:25:29.879 --> 00:25:30.539
 20%

00:25:30.539 --> 00:25:31.039
 is no

00:25:31.039 --> 00:25:31.519
 longer

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 20%

00:25:32.439 --> 00:25:33.740
 it's

00:25:33.740 --> 00:25:34.599
 21%

00:25:34.599 --> 00:25:34.879
 it's

00:25:34.879 --> 00:25:35.879
 22%

00:25:35.879 --> 00:25:39.459
 final

00:25:39.459 --> 00:25:39.939
 word

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 David

00:25:42.839 --> 00:25:43.379
 Putnam

00:25:43.380 --> 00:25:45.520
 in his

00:25:45.520 --> 00:25:46.580
 unbelievable

00:25:46.580 --> 00:25:47.180
 book

00:25:47.180 --> 00:25:48.840
 I don't

00:25:48.840 --> 00:25:49.160
 think he's

00:25:49.160 --> 00:25:49.680
 a Christian

00:25:49.680 --> 00:25:51.740
 and he's

00:25:51.740 --> 00:25:52.640
 looked at

00:25:52.640 --> 00:25:53.260
 a lot of

00:25:53.260 --> 00:25:53.960
 evidence in

00:25:53.960 --> 00:25:54.420
 America

00:25:54.420 --> 00:25:54.900
 but he

00:25:54.900 --> 00:25:55.480
 says that

00:25:55.480 --> 00:25:56.000
 what's true

00:25:56.000 --> 00:25:56.540
 in America

00:25:56.540 --> 00:25:57.060
 is true

00:25:57.060 --> 00:25:57.280
 in the

00:25:57.280 --> 00:25:57.600
 western

00:25:57.600 --> 00:25:58.100
 world

00:25:58.100 --> 00:25:59.260
 the book

00:25:59.260 --> 00:25:59.920
 is called

00:25:59.920 --> 00:26:00.420
 Bowling

00:26:00.420 --> 00:26:00.800
 Alone

00:26:00.800 --> 00:26:03.880
 it speaks

00:26:03.880 --> 00:26:04.220
 of the

00:26:04.220 --> 00:26:04.740
 phenomenon

00:26:04.740 --> 00:26:05.280
 that

00:26:05.280 --> 00:26:05.920
 ten pin

00:26:05.920 --> 00:26:06.380
 bowling

00:26:06.380 --> 00:26:06.840
 which was

00:26:06.840 --> 00:26:07.480
 designed

00:26:07.480 --> 00:26:08.960
 as a

00:26:08.960 --> 00:26:09.780
 game to

00:26:09.780 --> 00:26:10.280
 build

00:26:10.280 --> 00:26:10.780
 social

00:26:10.780 --> 00:26:11.320
 capital

00:26:11.319 --> 00:26:12.559
 is now

00:26:12.559 --> 00:26:13.200
 undertaken

00:26:13.200 --> 00:26:13.779
 by people

00:26:13.779 --> 00:26:14.039
 who just

00:26:14.039 --> 00:26:14.339
 go to

00:26:14.339 --> 00:26:14.720
 the bowling

00:26:14.720 --> 00:26:14.960
 alley

00:26:14.960 --> 00:26:15.339
 on their

00:26:15.339 --> 00:26:15.619
 own

00:26:15.619 --> 00:26:16.759
 and bowl

00:26:16.759 --> 00:26:17.119
 balls

00:26:17.119 --> 00:26:17.480
 down

00:26:17.480 --> 00:26:18.919
 I've

00:26:18.919 --> 00:26:19.159
 seen

00:26:19.159 --> 00:26:19.339
 that

00:26:19.339 --> 00:26:19.619
 golf

00:26:19.619 --> 00:26:19.960
 course

00:26:19.960 --> 00:26:20.460
 friends

00:26:20.460 --> 00:26:22.099
 two of

00:26:22.099 --> 00:26:22.279
 them

00:26:22.279 --> 00:26:22.919
 around

00:26:22.919 --> 00:26:23.559
 Clevedon

00:26:23.559 --> 00:26:24.059
 I've

00:26:24.059 --> 00:26:24.519
 seen so

00:26:24.519 --> 00:26:24.720
 many

00:26:24.720 --> 00:26:25.079
 people

00:26:25.079 --> 00:26:25.419
 playing

00:26:25.419 --> 00:26:25.740
 golf

00:26:25.740 --> 00:26:26.099
 on their

00:26:26.099 --> 00:26:26.319
 own

00:26:26.319 --> 00:26:29.740
 Partnum

00:26:29.740 --> 00:26:30.379
 is saying

00:26:30.379 --> 00:26:31.519
 that in

00:26:31.519 --> 00:26:31.859
 western

00:26:31.859 --> 00:26:32.619
 society

00:26:32.619 --> 00:26:33.399
 social

00:26:33.399 --> 00:26:33.960
 capital

00:26:33.960 --> 00:26:34.220
 is

00:26:34.220 --> 00:26:34.619
 breaking

00:26:34.619 --> 00:26:35.039
 down

00:26:35.039 --> 00:26:35.299
 and

00:26:35.299 --> 00:26:35.799
 covid

00:26:35.799 --> 00:26:36.599
 pandemics

00:26:36.599 --> 00:26:37.899
 accelerate

00:26:37.899 --> 00:26:38.740
 that process

00:26:38.740 --> 00:26:39.679
 here's the

00:26:39.679 --> 00:26:40.500
 prophetic word

00:26:40.500 --> 00:26:41.019
 if there

00:26:41.019 --> 00:26:41.680
 ever was

00:26:41.680 --> 00:26:42.180
 a moment

00:26:42.180 --> 00:26:44.420
 for the

00:26:44.420 --> 00:26:44.900
 church to

00:26:44.900 --> 00:26:45.759
 step up

00:26:45.759 --> 00:26:46.940
 and truly

00:26:46.940 --> 00:26:47.839
 be community

00:26:47.839 --> 00:26:49.859
 it would

00:26:49.859 --> 00:26:50.380
 be now

00:26:50.380 --> 00:26:53.660
 so I

00:26:53.660 --> 00:26:54.299
 ask you

00:26:54.299 --> 00:26:56.920
 I plead

00:26:56.920 --> 00:26:57.740
 with you

00:26:57.740 --> 00:27:00.099
 those of

00:27:00.099 --> 00:27:00.579
 you know

00:27:00.579 --> 00:27:00.940
 you're in

00:27:00.940 --> 00:27:01.799
 the 80%

00:27:01.799 --> 00:27:02.240
 bracket

00:27:02.240 --> 00:27:04.400
 are you

00:27:04.400 --> 00:27:04.680
 going to

00:27:04.680 --> 00:27:05.380
 step up

00:27:05.380 --> 00:27:07.299
 are you

00:27:07.299 --> 00:27:07.619
 going to

00:27:07.619 --> 00:27:08.500
 help this

00:27:08.500 --> 00:27:09.480
 local church

00:27:09.480 --> 00:27:10.759
 be the

00:27:10.759 --> 00:27:11.079
 local

00:27:11.079 --> 00:27:11.720
 church

00:27:11.720 --> 00:27:13.220
 that God

00:27:13.220 --> 00:27:13.759
 called us

00:27:13.759 --> 00:27:14.259
 to be

00:27:14.259 --> 00:27:16.860
 friends

00:27:16.860 --> 00:27:17.519
 I join

00:27:17.519 --> 00:27:17.940
 with St.

00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:18.579
 Paul in

00:27:18.579 --> 00:27:19.480
 urging you

00:27:19.480 --> 00:27:21.140
 urging you

00:27:21.140 --> 00:27:22.759
 pleading with

00:27:22.759 --> 00:27:22.880
 you

00:27:22.880 --> 00:27:24.539
 begging you

00:27:24.539 --> 00:27:27.079
 let's try

00:27:27.079 --> 00:27:28.140
 living a

00:27:28.140 --> 00:27:28.559
 life

00:27:28.559 --> 00:27:30.279
 worthy of

00:27:30.279 --> 00:27:30.799
 the calling

00:27:30.799 --> 00:27:31.120
 we've

00:27:31.120 --> 00:27:31.620
 received

00:27:31.620 --> 00:27:33.339
 in the name

00:27:33.339 --> 00:27:33.720
 of our

00:27:33.720 --> 00:27:34.620
 amazing God

00:27:34.620 --> 00:27:35.099
 Father

00:27:35.099 --> 00:27:35.579
 Son

00:27:35.579 --> 00:27:36.380
 and Holy

00:27:36.380 --> 00:27:36.819
 Spirit

00:27:36.819 --> 00:27:37.639
 and the

00:27:37.639 --> 00:27:37.899
 people

00:27:37.899 --> 00:27:38.339
 who agreed

00:27:38.339 --> 00:27:38.899
 woke up

00:27:38.899 --> 00:27:39.259
 and said

00:27:39.259 --> 00:27:39.720
 together

00:27:39.720 --> 00:27:41.839
 Amen

00:27:41.839 --> 00:27:49.939
 to be

00:27:53.439 --> 00:27:54.599
 a

00:27:54.599 --> 00:27:55.159
 John