Capital Campaign Update The second week of Advent The second Advent candle that has been lit today represents love The Christmas Gift The Best Time for a Gift The Giver A Christmas Gift 1976 ID: 449820
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URGENT:
Capital Campaign Update!Slide3Slide4
The second week of Advent
The second Advent candle that has been lit today represents love.Slide5
The Christmas Gift
The (Best) Time for a Gift
The GiverSlide6
A Christmas Gift (1976)
My mother loved me
She gave me the gift she thought I needed
39 year later – I still have the banjo!
My mother and father were greatSlide7
John
3:16
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For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.Slide8
John
3:16
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For God
so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.Slide9
A gift
begins
with a giver
The Gift of Jesus Christ for humanity begins with
God
God is the ultimate giver, because he gave the ultimate giftSlide10
What
did God do?Slide11
John
3:16
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For God so
loved
the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.Slide12
God loved because that is what God does.
Love is an action.
God’s reason for giving us the gift of Jesus Christ is love.Slide13
Who
or what did God love?Slide14
John
3:16
"
For God so loved
the world
that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.Slide15
t
he world
The disciples and Jewish people who heard this would have been surprised because they thought that God only loved them – the Jewish people.
Our current (English) translation of the Greek word for “world” is much more impersonal than the original
G
reek meaning. In the original Greek “world” basically means
every single person in the world.Slide16
Romans 5:8 (NLT)
But
God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us
while
we were still sinners
.
God loved the world and he loves each and every one of us in our current condition. Slide17
John
3:16
"
For God so loved the world
that he gave his only Son
, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.Slide18
God “gave” because love is an action.
God gave us his best, he gave us something (someone) unique, something (someone) that he could not replace.
God gave us that which he loved the most.Slide19
THIS SLIDE SHOULD BZE HIDDEN
How do you feel when someone gives you a one
ofa
kind item?
Wedding ring?
Mom’s microwaveSlide20
The Greek word that we translate as “gave” also meant “sacrificed” or “offered”.
When a giver offers us a gift we have two choices.
Accept it
Reject itSlide21
John
3:16
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For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.Slide22
Who will not perish?
The same people that have eternal life.
Everyone who accepts
T
he Giver’s (GOD’S) gift, who believes in Jesus Christ as their personal Savior, has eternal life.
What happens if we don’t accept The Giver’s gift (and accept Jesus as our personal Savior)?
We perish and we don’t have eternal life.Slide23
Perish
does not mean that we die, it means that we are eternally separated from God.Slide24
But wait . . .
How could God, the great giver, if he is a truly loving God, send his children to perish (go to hell)?
God doesn’t
send people to hell;
we choose when we don’t believe or when we reject the gift of Christ.Slide25
John 1:12-13
Yet
to all who received him, to those who believed in
his
name, he gave the right to become children of God-
-children
born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.Slide26
So what does all this mean to me?
What should I do?
Personally accept the Giver’s Gift (Give your life to Christ.)
Use the Gift. Make the
g
ift of Christ part of your daily life.
Give the gift of Christ to othersSlide27