Sermon by Clayton Nel

2. Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works,
and glorify your Father which is in
heaven.
Matthew 5:16 (NIV)

3. BE A CONDUIT
NOT A BARREL

4. BE EXCELLENT

5. ". . . Christianity served as a revitalization movement that
arose in response to the misery, chaos, fear, and brutality of
life in the urban Greco-Roman world. . . . Christianity
revitalized life in Greco-Roman cities by providing new norms
and new kinds of social relationships able to cope with many
urgent problems. To cities filled with the homeless and
impoverished, Christianity offered charity as well as hope. To
cities filled with newcomers and strangers, Christianity offered
an immediate basis for attachment.
Rodney Stark – The Rise of Christianity

6. To cities filled with orphans and widows, Christianity
provided a new and expanded sense of family. To cities
torn by violent ethnic strife, Christianity offered a new
basis for social solidarity. And to cities faced with
epidemics, fire, and earthquakes, Christianity offered
effective nursing services. . . . For what they brought was
not simply an urban movement, but a new culture capable
of making life in Greco-Roman cities more tolerable."
Rodney Stark – The Rise of Christianity

7. WHAT DOES LOVE
REQUIRE OF ME?

8. Love the Lord your God with all
your heart and with all your soul
and with all your mind and with all
your strength.
MARK 12:30-31(NIV)

9. The second is this: ‘Love your
neighbour as yourself.’ There is no
commandment greater than these.
MARK 12:30-31(NIV)

10. Do to others as you would have
them do to you.
LUKE 6:31 (ESV)

11. Greater love has no one than this:
to lay down one’s life for one’s
friends.
JOHN 15:13 (NIV)

12. The only thing that counts is faith
expressing itself through love.
GALATIANS 5:6 (NIV)

13. For the entire law is fulfilled in
keeping this one command: ‘Love
your neighbour as yourself.’
GALATIANS 5:14 (NIV)