![]() Be persuaded that Christ Jesus, the Son of God, the express image of the Father's glory, died for sinners, died for you. Be you then, my brethren, rooted and grounded in love. This explains to those of you who love not Christ, who love Him not through faith in His redemption, this explains why your purposes fall headlong to the ground, why your thoughts of heaven, and intentions to be holy, show fair for no other end, than to wither in the bud. A building with no foundation, a tree without a root, these give us some notion of a Christian without love. Our goal is to combat the idea of loneliness and loss of hope by creating a safe place for people to gather together and encounter the Living Father. We’re cultivating God’s Presence for me and you to experience the Father’s warm love. Nay, it is the ground under the foundation, the solid earth, which supports building, foundation, and all. Rooted and Grounded is a sanctuary filled with laid down lovers of Jesus. It is the foundation of the building, that on which all the rest depends, that without which all the rest must fall. It is as the root to the tree, that which holds it in the earth, conveys to it the nourishment of the soil, enables it to live, to grow, to thrive, to blossom, and bear fruit, and also to stand upright against the wind and storms. The apostle supplies us with two figures to show the force and necessity of religious affection. You are our breath, in you we live and breathe and have our being.That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith that you, being rooted and grounded in love, WE want to make a difference, but we confess we no longer have all the answers. Lord, give us the wisdom in this 21 st Century to be an living example of your loving nature and life. Lord show us how to be a winning example of living preventively instead of railing at the darkness from the vantage point of Loser’s Ledge. We don’t want to speak into any worldly sphere, but we want to take your influence into every sphere. It is so important to have a background knowledge of who is speaking, who is being spoken to, and at least a little knowledge of the cultural context and importance of the verse, chapter and. ![]() You’ve always heard that context is important when studying Scripture, and it certainly is. We desire to be rooted & grounded in the 21st century so we may be salt and light. Bible Study Method 1: Research Story Background and Genre. We don’t ask that you take us out from the world, but teach us how to live in it without letting the world break the levees of our hearts and minds. Lord help us to stay spiritually liquid in an ever-crystalizing world. We choose to walk the one that is here for us among our neighbors and friends to the Glory of your Name. We too seek to walk the “Via Dolorosa,” but not the one that is in Jerusalem. In love to you our gracious King, we gladly surrender these lives that you bought with your precious sacrifice. True love is an eternal covenant that never seeks its own. True love says Not our will, but Your will be done. In a world where the word love has been degenerated, we have rescued its original definition. We need no mediators, translator, or interpreters because we know His voice. His Voice comes to each one of us personally. Love operates under the direction of the Holy Spirit. Love is not a doctrine, paradigm, or a perspective. His Kingdom is not like earthly kingdoms nor does it exist by earthly means.įor the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds. Nothing of this world can accomplish the purposes of my King. We are not part of this world and it is not part of us. We represent His Nature, His Ways and His Example to this world. His Kingdom reaches into a vast domain of this world as we know it. The King is on His throne and there is only ONE, our Lord King Jesus. The stronger branches do not call attention to themselves because their work is evident, and their strength too comes from the ROOT. Even though the sap that I receive as a young branch comes from the larger stronger branches, the Root is still my SOURCE. Those that receive the same life-giving sap from the ROOT grow together with me and flow together with me. I do not need to try to bring unity to something that is already united. When you see the tree, you don’t see different kind of branches because All the branches have the same DNA of the ROOT.Īs a branch, I and the rest of the Body of the tree are ONE. There is only ONE tree with many branches. I am no longer an Old Testament tree planted by the rivers of water, but in the New Testament, I have been grafted into the Tree which is the Lord’s Body. I am tethered invisibly to the Lord via the Holy Spirit who is both my WIFI and my power source. ![]() Being Rooted and Grounded in the 21st Century means I am connected to Christ for all my sustenance as a Child is connected to its mother by the umbilical cord. ![]()
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