Feb 10, 2019
1 John 4:7-12;
16-21
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God
has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love
abides in God, and God abides in him. 17 By this is
love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the
day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this
world.18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts
out fear.
Did you have a crippling phobia
growing up? Was it spiders? Snakes? The Dark? How did you get over
it? Or perhaps you haven't. Did you're fears ever make you act in a
way that was out of character or treat others in a way that made
them out to be monsters, based on your fear? There is no way around
the reality that there is a much fear in the church as there is in
the culture. Yet our calling as the people of God is to be a place
of faith and hope. We have gotten our wires crossed somewhere that
has causes us to fear others rather than love them. Join us as we
take a look at 1st John's understanding of Fear and Security in the
life of the Christian and as we gather to worship Christ, the only
one we are called to fear.