ALL FLAME | CHRISTIAN LAKE
Tongues of Fire
2 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. 2 And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. 3 Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. 4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.
Acts 2:1–4
A Spirit-filled Church is a Unified Church
Is your fire building or burning?
23 So when you are offering your gift at the altar, if you remember that your brother or sister has something against you, 24 leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother or sister, and then come and offer your gift.
Mt 5:23–24
39 But I say to you, Do not resist an evildoer. But if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also; 40 and if anyone wants to sue you and take your coat, give your cloak as well; 41 and if anyone forces you to go one mile, go also the second mile. 42 Give to everyone who begs from you, and do not refuse anyone who wants to borrow from you.
Mt 5:39–42
44 But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 so that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.
Mt 5:44–4
Honesty is the Best Policy
Strength: Reconciliation
Question: Does this offend my conscience
or my pride?
Weakness: Division
If You Don’t Have Anything Nice to Say…
Strength: Resilience
Question: Am I Staying in my Lane or Passing Someone in a Ditch?
Weakness: False Unity
13 If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:1–3
“To Love is To Will the Good of the other”
-St. Thomas Aquinas
13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:13
