following program is sponsored by seattle open door church yet all open door church he's committed to loving god loving people and loving life our doors are open to whomever no mass required seattle open door church as we talk about community development i pray that your message will get out through this broken vessel that people grasp the concept of community development to take the the word of god the gospel busy into the outside world but also in the church to actually reach out to each other in the church and to reach out into the world it is pray that it be with the message in jesus name amen committee member of the gospel community development in a christian perspective is finding every opportunity possible to meet the needs of others and gain them connected to the gospel of jesus christ we as christians we as a church  opportunity that we possibly can to meet the needs of others and let them know it's because of jesus the reason i gave you a mill is because jesus put it on my heart to show you his lot the reason i gave you a ride to so security so you can get some assistance is because of jesus christ putting love for you the reason i am bided you to a movie was so you can hear the gospel shared four times in that movie because i really want you to hear that jesus is the answer that's community development it is the sharing the love of christ in a practical man what is practical manner mean and way that is practical what is brave practical in a way that just makes sense so how many know i am i am a guy that you hear me every  believe in preaching the word of god i believe a call to holiness impurity i believe god calls us to worship him i believe that god calls us to give of ourselves and die for him i believe in the gospel but this  the other part of the gospel is the meet the needs of people in a practical sense is to make a difference in somebody's life is sharing the love of christ in a practical manner it is the jesus take a whittle that doesn't know jesus and minister to that whittle in a practical manner that whittle is more likely to come to christ eighty years they've been an atheist but a loving christian goes and helps that widow in a practical manner she may just want to know about the jesus christ in you that reaches out or that she has christian people living or all around her and they do nothing for her but a christian neighbor goes it reaches out and then lets them know it's because of jesus christ that i'm doing this listen reaching out but not let them know as jesus you're not helping them did you hear me because any last person to reach out to somebody that doesn't know jesus but it's you that have the spirit of god living within you and as you minister to them whatever it may be in along the way you plant the seeds and you say you know i have to tell you today was a really busy day but god put it on my heart that i was the call you and when i called you say you need a ride and i believe is the holy spirit that talked to told me to call you up to give you a ri then you're giving god glory for it and you're not getting the glory for it and then you keep sharing with them and sharing with them they start to want to know about the jesus in whatever we do we point to christ ministered to him or not letting them know that it's because of jesus christ it's because of christ i'm doing what i'm doing community development how does a start it starts by walking out the gospel living the gospel of jesus christ it starts by us just being followers of christ who love people listen it's one thing to say i love you is another thing to walk it out i've said it before i'll say it again and again this is a very loving accepting church but i'd think that we fail miserably at times  reflecting that outside of sunday morning every visitor i've ever talked to every visitor i've ever talked to has said i felt loved and accepted in this church but they're not here because it's one thing to love and accept somebody on sunday morning at eleven the want to clock is another thing to love and accept them outside of the church doors it's one thing to love and accept them for who they are no matter what they act like look like anything that they do live there on the house another day to walk out the gospel by taking the gospel outside the church walls and minister to people outside the church walls community development starts by being concerned for others compassionate it starts by having compassion for others as starts by having a place that you are burdened by what others are going through think about it needs to be every one of us sensitive to somebody that's going through something and letting them know that you care we're just a bunch of christians meeting together and we're not the body of christ there's a difference between christians meeting together in the body of christ representing jesus christ himself when we have a concern for others they get it and they want to be around people that have a concern for them who wants to be around people that don't care don't raise your hand but how many of you came from a dysfunctional whole every one of us because our parents came from adam and eve so i don't like it sometimes every one of us came from a dysfunctional home and as that story if you had a perfect parent you were deceived you believed a lie and you probably excuse them sinful behavior from them because i've talked to people say yeah my dad was the most loving father when he was a drunk this if your father was a drunk he was not a loving father all the time couldn't be drunks cannot be loving fathers all the time but he did the best he could that's church and everybody wears their mass everything's ok everything's great everything's wonderful sometimes it is sometimes my wife and i really get along and things are wonderful when it comes to church sometimes we have conflict how lujah become unhealthy is a lot less complex cover does whatever i say and there's this conflict is great though you know what i do i try to love my light wife a whole lot more because guess what i love my wife more she loves me more it's an amazing kind of concept and a healthy relationships a church means that when people are struggling they can say i'm struggling i need prayer a healthy relationship in a church is what people are excited they feel they could be excited and healthy church let you be who  that you be who you are worship however you want to worship if you don't want to worship it's ok well the church lets you be who you are but a healthy church is also that has healthy relationships t  is don't let you be who you are they actually add relationship with you an amazing concept scared she don't know what's going on but we have a healthy relationship so listen we have a healthy relationship so she trusts me she suspicious of me she's a little scared what i do but in the end she trusts me and because you trust me i won't take you further then what will make you pass out a healthy relationship is with not all the except one another we interact with them one another now men you don't interact like this it's not a healthy relationship you take some woman in the church and decide that she's your lover all of a sudden we show set boundaries and we show respect to one another but have a relationship when we get the know each other and what struggling thank you honey way in a healthy relationship we get to know your story if we're going to see community bella member going to a community grow over to see this church grow we need to know each other we know don't know each other's stories and you can do this you spent time with each other yeah but i don't like you let me tell you something i don't like homeless people who can't tense in a park and smoke meth i don't like them and i don't like what they do well you're supposed to separate the center from what they do that is true but guess what i can separate your sin from you right still don't like you were real hey i don't like what you're doing you know what i can love you as a person i don't accept what you're doing but i can love you as a person a healthy relationship you can do that and if they don't if they want me to be a fake honest i'm sincere if you don't like me being honest with you you want me to be a fake i probably can't help you and if you want to fake there are plenty of them out there go find them and do they help you know they to actually talk about you and complain about you and say you need to get your tent out of there and i don't care if you die or not use it or give to tell us for ministry community development is we use o gives in or tell us for ministry is god given you talents skills abilities will you use of for the kingdom has god given you give supernatural spiritual gifts you use them you use your gifts and talents ministry will grohl meet the needs of those who are then the church to meet the needs of those are outside the church does meet people's needs amazing things start to happen when you meet people's needs how does  start ups or did next one application ok i like people who share information i love information but information is no good unless you can apply the information that you've he application fill a ship community felt fellowship interact with others an individual matter get to know people fellowship you want to see a community develop fellowship connect connect the deeper you know a fellowship is we're at potluck and we eat together but most of you aren't having fellowship even a potluck because guess what you sit with your little group so fellowship is one thing that's high by have a mill connect as a deeper bond with others inside and outside the church connect with them we need to connect be used off your gifts and tell us a love offering to others be available oh this is hard to go through this be available make yourself available to us by god to make a difference be available stop giving excuses honestly as a pastor i'm no different than every pastor in this community you know how many times pastors hear excuses why people don't do they when they get together they talk about all of things that irritate them in their churches they talk about it you know why we talk about it to let us know we're not alone invariably a pastor say this to me say pastor you're not alone of vailable let god usually make a difference stop using excuses we have the ability to make a difference see there's the warning signal you hear it that's god warning you you better start making a difference practical application now we're going to go deeper we're going to go deeper community development making a difference abortion you know i've been on facebook i have somebody that used to be in one of our sober houses and they posed as things about abortion they support abortion and if you didn't know what i don't know if you read on facebook you'll find out i don't not ashamed of that but we've gone through a debate back and forth i like the baby because it gets it gets me thinking is to the person they get and i'm not going to change that person's position that's ridiculous the poses some facebook has to make you think differently if god can't make you think differently how can i but can i plant seeds and thereby that watches saw when they say something challenge them and in arresting they'd like to they don't like it when i say you say this i say this but this should give us a response back to what i said but they have no argument against what i said right speaking is true but in the midst of that discussion when they bring up all those pro life people are all about women not having an abortion but where are they helping the women where the they can put a sign up says stop killing babies but what are they doing practically helping somebody that's looking to have an abortion packed advocation if you're going to tell young girl to not get an abortion helper during an after pregnancy oh wait you're killing your baby or you know what you're what you're doing is sin or what you're doing is wrong or whatever we may say but will you walk them through their pregnancy will you be there after their pregnancy will you just tell them they're do it and we could pick every sin there is you shouldn't do drugs but i'm not going to help you get off the drugs how about i don't know any i don't know if anybody here likes food i like food i like it a lot and when i'm stressed out i like going to food it's my comfort the only problem is it doesn't doing them but put more of a belly on me and i'm  uncomfortable and physically uncomfortable in that i allow the food to control me but if i know some strength of food do i turn around and say hey this go have a celebration for the next five days we're going to go do all you me on the treadmill and their only goal on slow and i say you're never going to lose weight that way i would say that to all i said but you're going to lose the weight that way in a god says they're on the treadmill they're doing something about it and you're going to be home not doing anything so we do something we carry people through jail if you go tell someone not be a repeat offender mitter them so they change their life mentor them homeless up to take a shower that's the max thirteen people a whole lot more need showers i will tell you go there they need showers they have a dental band they have a medical van they have a crisis band for women that for a diapers and formula and stuff they have people that provide housing resources people divide treatment most of the people going there are not taking advantage of that and i argue one reason is because nobody will walk them through it nobody oh billboard trustful relationship with them and turn around so that when you speak into their life they listen because they know that you care practical ways how about physical needs because all of you will say you know not all of you some of you say most of you say i can't witness i can't share i can't talk to hama i can't i can't i can't i can't i can't i can't but can you do physical his grass just as tall and the neighbors say well that slob you don't mow his lawn or you don't even know that the number neighbor has a bad shoulder so our neighbor he now is walking with a crutch his knees are bad his wife has got all kinds of problems you don't get out of the can you paint a room that needs painted t provide transportation can you provide transportation can you help somebody else could care we have people that can cut hair overweight they do cut people's hair how about knit a sweater mrs i was just great at knitting she's amazing at miti i've seen the yarn in the office there sat with that needle for about two years now hasn't changed at all that sweater is a got any bigger personalized give car most of people who do that throw a birthday party provide tutoring one daughter is having a lot of problems with math and she needs to dream is a great major problem that's happening right now can you help in tutoring can you babysit can you teach a class teach a class on anything what if we turn around we offer people a class on gardening invite some people to come all  resources how about connecting the biggest resource they are available to meet their needs get that connected professionals have the skills or resources available to them community vellum is for all people in the church and outside the church what if we as a church actually took community building serious and made some changes all those things i talked about there's something that you could pick out of that and that you could do in the next couple weeks i want to be talking to do any of this you're not if you're not if you're not excited about jesus you're not excited about souls or not excited about making a difference you're not going to do this i can preach this forever in the revived you need to get closer to jesus you need to stop coming to church just to come to church and actually get filled with the holy spirit and be consumed by the spirit of god as they consume by all these things listen if you're doing all this really stuff you're yeah i don't care if you're born again you're going to get they haven't we haven't died yet so until you die you're supposed to do something on this earth and that most of you i'll be going to be honest most of you are not baptized but filled with all the spirit i don't know that because there's no fire in you there's no inner g and there's no burden for the lot there's no crying out for salt there's no crying out for this church you need to be filled with the spirit is to the things of this world i believe that we as a church can make a difference in this community i believe we've made some differences with people that are so ball was eight years now eight years of sobriety today could vald paul down without this church well he said his sobriety started before this church could have done me out he could but i think this church helped along the way i think that this ministry helped along the way ed sobriety him sobriety dan sobriety tyler misnamed body right now and all those who that we don't know about in the last several years in your ministry ever learned before in my life so we're doing things we have our t v shows that are going to help there we have the internet radio we did for years we have a lot of stuff that has gone on as a church we turn around to support our missionaries  missionaries are doing all kinds of things so it's not their church isn't doing anything what we need to grow is a community this is best to rich do you need to know jesus christ your lord and savior jesus said behold i stand at the door and not going to be one hears my voice and open be saved and that he wanted says repent you and believe that not all will you accept jesus christ your lord or savior today you want to get more information you can always go to our website to learn how to accept jesus christ as your lord and savior you can go to there is hope open door church located in theory and committed to loving god loving people and loving life seattle open door church once you know that regardless of where you've been or what you've done god loves their doors are open to anyone and everyone their