10. A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. (John 13:34-35)

The Too-Often Missing Element of Worship

Tom Kraeuter, Executive Director of Training Resources March 1, 2015

The Too-Often Missing Element of Worship Notes:

11. Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ… (Philippians 1:27). A. standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel. B. So a manner of life worthy of the gospel is a life that is united in tangible ways with our fellow- believers. C.

Ephesians 4:1 – I ... urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you’ve been called…

12. ...he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. (1 John 4:20b)

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Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple. (1 Corinthians 3:16-17)

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By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. (John 13:35)

For the week of March 1, 2015 1.

A story

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Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. (1 Corinthians 12:27)

A. We too often think that complete doctrinal agreement is the ideal. 3.

Now as he went on his way, he approached Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. And falling to the ground he heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?” And he said, “Who are you, Lord?” And he said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. (Acts 9:3‑5)

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Have you ever come into a corporate gathering of worship and thought…

B. If I…can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge…but have not love, I am nothing. (1 Corinthians 13:2)

9. What does all this have to do with worship?

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So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit. (Ephesians 2:19-22)

...you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. (1 Peter 2:5)

A. So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. (Matthew 5:23-24) B. “But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility ... that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, 16 and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. (Ephesians 2:13-16) C.

...he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. (1 John 4:20b)