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- We encourage
followers of Jesus Christ to:
- Develop a deeper relationship with Him.
- Love the Lord your God with all your
heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
- Matthew 22:37
- Persevere in their faith and run the Christian
“race” so as to win the prize.
- Let us throw off everything that hinders
and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run
with perseverance the race marked out for us.
- Hebrews 12:1b
- We equip followers
of Jesus Christ with practical tools they can use
to:
- Wholeheartedly seek after and obey God.
- Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness.
- Matthew 6:33
- Grow in their faith in Jesus to produce fruit.
- I chose you and appointed you to go
and bear fruit – fruit that will last.
- John 15:16
- Recognize God’s purposes for their lives
and live those purposes out with integrity, commitment
and passion.
- For I know the plans I have for you,
declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to
harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
- Jeremiah 29:11
- We exhort followers
of Jesus Christ to:
- Fear God.
- The fear of the Lord is the beginning
of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
- Proverbs 9:10
- Study and know the truth of Scripture.
- All Scripture is God-breathed and
is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training
in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly
equipped for every good work.
- II Timothy 3:16-17
- Obey God’s Word by applying Scripture
in their daily lives.
- Do not merely listen to the word,
and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
- James 1:22
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