We are the Heart of God: Identification

Vision Confirming Message

Vision Verses: 1 John 4:16-17

16 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 17 By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world.

• One,  God’s love, His thoughts, His heart are toward us.  “We are” Receiving an Ardent Lavishing unconditional Love from God’s Heart

Two Important Meanings:

• One,  God’s love, His thoughts, His heart are toward us.  “We are” Receiving an Ardent, Lavishing, unconditional Love, Grace, & Favor from and as God’s Heart
• Second, When we say, “We are the Heart of God,” it also means that “We are” Representing the Heart of God in this world. 

The Vision Means...

• “We love because he first loved us.”  Turn it around: “Because Jesus first loved us, we love.”
• “We are” Receiving and Reflecting “the Heart of God”

Family of Faith - "We are" every1one Praying

Identification

• Have you ever used a fake I.D. before?
• (Camp Sabra, Grocery Store Line, Someone I.D.’s you)

• We are the Heart of God is our Vision, but what we really doing is Inaugurating in 2013 rather who We are, our Identification
• We are the Heart of God is who we ARE and who we are BECOMING
• We are being very careful not to have any Icons, any Imagery, Art work, fonts, branding, labeling, are any such thing as to not complicate our Identity

We are in a Defining Moment of Ministry: Identification

• Interdependent
• Interdenominational
• Interracial
• Word-Based
• Spirit-Filled
• at-the-Cross Cultural
• But NOW,  “We are the Heart of God!”

I John 4:7-12

• We are NOT what we do, 
• Do’s List verses ARE List
• Why David could only be a man after God’s Heart...
• God Satisfies