1. Pulling
Together

2. The Church of Jesus Christ
For Something Bigger
Than
Yourself
The Church of Jesus Christ

3. For Something Bigger Than Yourself
Ephesians 2:17-22
(Jesus) came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. (18) For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit. (19) Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God's people and also members of His household,

4. For Something Bigger Than Yourself
Ephesians 2:17-22
(20) built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the chief cornerstone. (21) In Him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. (22) And in Him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by His Spirit.

5. For Something Bigger Than Yourself

6. For Something Bigger Than Yourself
(Jesus) came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. (18) For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.
(Ephesians 2:17-18)

7. For Something Bigger Than Yourself
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ. (14) For He Himself is our peace.
Ephesians 2:13-14

8. For Something Bigger Than Yourself
As Part of Jesus’ Church We Are
Messengers of His Peace:
To those who are near to God
To those who are far from God
Citizens of God’s kingdom
Members of God’s family
Stones in God’s temple
-Privilege
-Belong./Respons.
-Indispensible

9. For Something Bigger Than Yourself
And in Him you too are being built
together to become a dwelling in which
God lives by His Spirit.
Ephesians 2:22

10. For Something Bigger Than Yourself
“We simply weren’t constructed to live only for ourselves. We were placed on earth to be part of something bigger than the narrow borders of our own survival and our own little definition of happiness.”
~ Paul David Tripp, A Quest for More:
Living for Something Bigger than You

11. For Something Bigger Than Yourself

12. For Something Bigger
Than
Yourself