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Luke 10:25-29 On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” “What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?” He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” “You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.” But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” Once upon a time, people knew their neighbors. They talked to them, had cook-outs with them, and went to church with them. In our time of unprecedented mobility and increasing isolationism, it's hard to make lasting connections with those who live right outside our front door. We have hundreds of "friends" through online social networking, but we often don't even know the full name of the person who lives right next door. (From an onlin...

1 Corinthians 16 The whole relationship between pastor and people depends on united, continual prayerfulness. When ministers and people become conscious of the power and blessing of the Holy Spirit that comes from their prayer, then the church will begin to know what Pentecostal, apostolic Christianity is.  That was a quote from Andrew Murray a South African writer, teacher, and Christian pastor. He lived from May 9, 1828 to January 18, 1917. His father was a Dutch reformed missionary to South Africa from Scotland. His mom was of French Huguenot and German Lutheran descent. So when he was talking there about Pentecostal, apostolic Christianity, he was not talking about what people today usually think of when you hear the word “Pentecostal.” He was talking about the kind of spiritual movement of God that was happening all over the Roman world with the leadership of St. Paul the Apostle. Andrew Murray believed, as I do, (and as Francis Chan does, for those of you in Sunday ...