FBC Seminole – April 25, 2021 | First Baptist Church Seminole

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Love One Another

A Christian’s life should be living proof of their connection to the Father. Essentially, our sacrificial love for others is a testament of our sacrificial love for God. In his first epistle—which forms the basis for this series—the apostle John walks through several aspects of the Christian life, revealing where the evidence lies for each. Do you know God? You can prove it because the evidence is in your obedience. Do you truly love your neighbor? You can prove it because the evidence is in your sacrifice. We don’t earn God’s forgiveness with our good deeds, but a transformed life should look just like that—transformed.

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FBC Seminole

Gracefully helping people in a distracted world embrace their role in God’s story

https://fbcseminole.org

Giving

We want to thank those of you who give faithfully and systematically to our church. We hope you know how important your giving is to what God is doing at FBC Seminole, in our community, and across the planet through the different ministries we are able to partner with through your financial generosity. We’ve fixed plumbing, remodeled kitchens, replaced shingles, celebrated our teachers, and made a difference in a host of other opportunities. Your generosity matters.
We offer Financial Peace University on a consistent basis for those who need financial help. It’s a financial management system that allows multitudes to eliminate debt and live in freedom.

https://fbcseminole.org/give

Live Your Calling: What On Earth Am I Here For

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Our Heavenly Father enjoys watching His kids get along.

1 John 2:7-11 NLT

7 Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment for you; rather it is an old one you have had from the very beginning. This old commandment—to love one another—is the same message you heard before. 8 Yet it is also new. Jesus lived the truth of this commandment, and you also are living it. For the darkness is disappearing, and the true light is already shining. 9 If anyone claims, “I am living in the light,” but hates a fellow believer, that person is still living in darkness. 10 Anyone who loves a fellow believer is living in the light and does not cause others to stumble. 11 But anyone who hates a fellow believer is still living and walking in darkness. Such a person does not know the way to go, having been blinded by the darkness.

John 15:12 NLT

12 This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you.

John 13:35 NLT

35 Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.”

John 17:20-23 NLT

20 “I am praying not only for these disciples but also for all who will ever believe in me through their message. 21 I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me. 22 “I have given them the glory you gave me, so they may be one as we are one. 23 I am in them and you are in me. May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me.

His identity is staked on our unity.

Jesus lived it out and we are living it out.

My job is to protective unity of His church.

Vision is destroyed by division.

Disunity destroys community.

1. Stay on God’s Team

2. Play by Team Rules

Proverbs 18:13 NLT

13 Spouting off before listening to the facts is both shameful and foolish.

If we are united we are unstoppable in what we can do for the glory of God on earth. Love and unity evaporate in disunity.

Ephesians 6:12 NLT

12 For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places.

1 John 2:9-11 NLT

9 If anyone claims, “I am living in the light,” but hates a fellow believer, that person is still living in darkness. 10 Anyone who loves a fellow believer is living in the light and does not cause others to stumble. 11 But anyone who hates a fellow believer is still living and walking in darkness. Such a person does not know the way to go, having been blinded by the darkness.

Revelation 12:10 NLT

10 Then I heard a loud voice shouting across the heavens,“It has come at last—salvation and power and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ.For the accuser of our brothers and sisters has been thrown down to earth—the one who accuses them before our God day and night.

Membership Covenant

New Member’s rules of the team

https://www.dropbox.com/s/75qzrfyt63x1z5h/fbc%20membership%20covenant.pdf?dl=0