How
can you live in community without the mask?
STOP:
1. Projecting
Some
people are so proud of themselves, and they look down on everyone else. (Proverbs 30:13, ERV)
2.
Protecting
Do your best to be the kind of
person God will accept, and give yourself to him. Be a worker who has no reason
to be ashamed of his work, one who applies the true teaching in the right way. (2 Timothy 2:15, ERV)
START:
1. Meeting
24 We should think about each other to see how we can encourage each other
to show love and do good works. 25 We
must not quit meeting together, as some are doing. No, we need to keep on
encouraging each other. This becomes more and more important as you see the Day
[of Jesus’
Return] getting closer. (Hebrews 10:24-25, ERV)
2.
Eating
10 Jesus ate dinner at Matthew’s house. Many
tax collectors and others with bad reputations came and ate with him and his
followers. 11 The
Pharisees saw that Jesus was eating with these people. They asked his
followers, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and other sinners?”
12 Jesus heard them say this. So he said to them, “It is the sick people who
need a doctor, not those who are healthy. (Matthew 9:10-12, ERV)
“You wear a mask for so long [that] you
forget who you were beneath it.” (Alan Moore)[i]
[i] Inspired by the sermon “Living Without the Mask:
Unmasked” (installment three, final) Sunday February 23,
2020, Dave Jansen CenterPoint Gahanna Church Gahanna, OH
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