Messy Christianity – Amazing Love Invites an Accountable Community
Gal. 6:1 September 17, 2017
Pastor Todd Harker
Scripture Emphasis:
Eccl. 4:9, 10 “Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up.”
Defined: Celebrates our successes; Encourages through our defeats; Prays for our weaknesses; Restores through our fallings
Hindrances:
- When it is easier to leave a church than to deal with my sin, the church is in _____________.
- When the church refuses to restore an erring brother, the church is in
- When the church finds it easier to condemn than set a cast, the church is _____________.
- When the church finds itself destroying the defeated instead of restoring the fallen, the church is __________________.
Brothers: Not talking to the world but the ___________
If someone: _________________
Is caught in a sin: A _________ animal; ________ without warning
You who are spiritual: Not for the __________ but the goal of believers
Should restore him: It is not an ____________ but a command
We cannot nor should not ___________ sin
Make right what was __________
Gently: Not harshly or with __________
But watch yourself: Can’t do for another what you ________ done for you
Or you also may be tempted: No one is _____________ to this
