Good Morning!

Thank you so much for joining us at The Bridge Community Church Berne this morning!

HAVE NO FEAR

Speaker: Dave Fox

Does telling someone you love Jesus produce any fear in you? What if they ask you questions about your faith?

Begin by asking good questions.
Continue by telling the story of what God has done in your life.
Ask yourself if the fruit is ripe. If so, continue. If not, let it go.

“Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.”Ephesians 4:15 NIV

Lennox says, “Speaking the truth is easy if we do not have to love people. Being sentimental with people and loving them is easy if we avoid speaking the truth. It is doing both simultaneously that is the challenge.”

Most people’s idea of religion:
Most people’s idea of religion
How Christianity is different from other religions:
  • Not merit based.
  • We are accepted at the beginning of the path.
  • Begins with our acceptance of Jesus Christ, believing that He is God incarnate, who came into the world to give His life as a ransom for our sins.
8“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God – 9not by works, so that no one can boast.”Ephesians 2:8-9 NIV “For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”Ephesians 2:10 NIV

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