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I Love My Church: Love In Serving Others

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  I Love My Church: Love In Serving Others Opening Illustration: Good morning brothers and sisters and welcome to Eastern Shore Baptist Church. For the last three weeks we have been engaged in a sermon series entitled “I Love My Church”. Friends, let me tell you something, I love my church and I love you. I am so thankful to be a part of this place. We are an active, alive, and amazing church. If you are visiting with us this morning, I want to tell you welcome. I am so glad to see you this morning worshipping with us.  Point: Last week we learned that the church is our number one source of encouragement, enlightenment and engagement. The church should be our primary place where we find our friends, people that love us, and friendships that last the course of a life time. The church is a people holistically committed to praying for us when we are down, visiting us when we are sick, and loving us through life’s most difficult days.  Encouragement.  The church is also ...

I Love My Church: Love In Community

  I Love My Church: Love In Community Opening Illustration: Good morning friends. My name is Stuart Davidson. I am the pastor here at Eastern Shore Baptist Church. Thank you for worshipping with us this morning. If you are new or visiting with us today, we have just started a new sermon series entitled “I Love My Church”. This is the second week, the second Sunday of this new series. Today, I want to reveal to you one of the great joys of belonging to the church, the Body of Christ. When you are a member of the church, you are a member of a living, breathing, organic community. That’s right friends, the church is alive. The church has a beating heart and that beating heart starts with the Lord Jesus Christ Himself and it is made up of me and you. We friends are the living church.  However, not every church is living. Sure there are some churches that are barely alive. There are some churches that are just bones. The other day I was watching the History Channel and I learn...