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Rock Point Church · all sermons
Pastor Bill Bush · Sep 6, 2020
In Romans 15:1-7, the apostle Paul reveals that the Holy Spirit's primary instrument for making us like Jesus is not a private spiritual formula but the body of Christ in genuine community. That community, however, looks nothing like what most of us prefer: it is inconvenient, development-focused rather than comfort-focused, woefully imperfect and messy, and built on unity rather than uniformity. Rather than running from those realities, followers of Jesus are called to embrace them — giving up personal rights and ideological demands for the sake of others — because that is precisely what Jesus Himself did when He entered our broken world to make a way for us.