What does it look like to actually reach up to God, not just show up for him? In the first message of our brand new series, Reach, we ask one question and camp out on the answer: what happens when we truly reach up?
This message starts back in Genesis, tracing how sin broke our vertical relationship with God and how that break spills into every relationship we have. From there we talk about what it means to get close enough to God to know his heart instead of just receiving from him, including a story about a father, a son, and a heartbeat that says more than words could. We close by looking at what happens when reaching out to people stops being a have to and becomes something we simply cannot stop doing, and we put it into practice together, praying and writing down the names of people we sense God calling us to invite.
This is Part 1 of the Reach series, leading up to Friend Day on August 30.
Scripture References:
2:44 Genesis 1-2
2:44 Genesis 3:6-9
5:37 Genesis 3:10
9:49 Isaiah 29:13
9:49 Revelation 2:2-5
20:00 John 3:16-17
23:31 Matthew 9
25:15 Luke 15
28:06 Acts 4:19
29:18 Acts 4:20
29:32 Jeremiah 20:9