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You ar ou are not e not alo alone! ne! North American Lutheran Church Mission Festival Rev. Dr. Gemechis Desta Buba Columbus OH. Nov. 2015 You are not alone! It is not good for the man to be alone, I will make a helper suitable for

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North American Lutheran Church Mission Festival

  • Rev. Dr. Gemechis Desta Buba

Columbus OH.

  • Nov. 2015
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You are not alone!

 It is not good for the man to be alone, I will make a

helper suitable for him. Gen. 2:18

LA TOV!

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Fundamental Problems Related to Question of Being Alone

  • I. Declining value for

personal, intentional and consistent relationships

Being Alone

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Fundamental Problems Related to Question of Being Alone

  • I. Declining value for

personal, intentional and consistent relationships

  • II. Culture-inflicted

problem of isolating and persecuting Christians and Judeo Christian teachings

Being Alone

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Fundamental Problems Related to Question of Being Alone

  • I. Declining value for

personal, intentional and consistent relationships

  • II. Culture-inflicted problem of

isolating and persecuting Christians and Judeo Christian teachings

  • III. Self inflicted problem of

being alone resulting from extreme individualism and egocentric isolationism

Being Alone

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Fundamental Problems Related to Question of Being Alone

  • I. Declining value for

personal, intentional and consistent relationships

  • II. Culture-inflicted problem of

isolating and persecuting Christians and Judeo Christian teachings

  • III. Self inflicted problem of

being alone resulting from extreme individualism and egocentric isolationism

  • IV. NALC-specific problem

which is, we are a church that is geographically distant from each other and churches and pastors suffer from being alone

Being Alone

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You are not alone! Manifestations of Being Alone

Broken Relationship with God

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You are not alone! Manifestations of Being Alone

Broken Relationship with God Broken Relationship with Self

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You are not alone! Manifestations of Being Alone

Broken Relationship with God Broken Relationship with Self Broken Relationship with Neighbor

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But But how how?

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Your ur are e no not t alone! lone! Fo Follow llow th the e fo footsteps tsteps of f Jes esus us

  • I. If you are in the Prophetic Promise and in

the Apostolic Witness, you are not alone!

Genesis 3-John 1:14, In the beginning was the word, the word was with God and the word was God …the word became flesh.

Whe hen n yo you u are in t n the he wo word d of Go God d yo you u are no not alone! ne!

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Your ur are e no not t alone! lone! Fo Follow llow th the e fo footsteps tsteps of f Jes esus us

  • II. Family is formed and instituted by God to

deal with issues of being alone:

  • Genesis 2 – God formed the first family
  • Gospels – Jesus was born into a family
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Your ur are e no not t alone! lone! Fo Follow llow th the e fo footsteps tsteps of f Jes esus us

  • III. The Body of Christ is our Christian

family; a place to be born again, a place to grow again and a place to die again and again

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Your ur are e no not t alone! lone! Fo Follow llow th the e fo footsteps tsteps of f Jes esus us

  • IV. You are not alone when the spirits leads

you into and through the wilderness and when angels come down from heaven to minister to you. Supernatural pernatural presence esence of f Go God with th us!

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Your ur are e no not t alone! lone! Fo Follow llow th the e fo footsteps tsteps of f Jes esus us

  • V. If you are in a discipleship culture, you

are being discipled and you are making disciples; therefore you are not alone, and you will never be alone.

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Your ur are e no not t alone! lone! Fo Follow llow th the e fo footsteps tsteps of f Jes esus us

  • VI. If you are connecting with your

community and if you are intentionally forming strategic mission-driven networks, you are not alone.

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Your ur are e no not t alone! lone! Fo Follow llow th the e fo footsteps tsteps of f Jes esus us

  • VII. When relationships were broken and

when apostolic unity was shaken to the core, Jesus came back from the dead and reorganized his apostolic community by rebuilding their faith.

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Your ur are e no not t alone! lone! Fo Follow llow th the e fo footsteps tsteps of f Jes esus us

  • VIII. When you leave the past and move into

the future to serve and honor Jesus, you are not alone!