1. Need #4 – Passionate Spirituality

2.  Passionate spirituality doesn’t necessarily mean heights of emotional expression.

4.  “One person with passion is better than forty who are merely interested.” Thomas K. Connellan  Woman to famed violinist Fritz Kreisler: “I’d give my life to play as beautifully as you do….”

5.  Mark 12:30 -- and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’

6.  So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves…He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me and I in him.”

7.  O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly; My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You, In a dry and weary land where there is no water. Thus I have seen You in the sanctuary, To see Your power and Your glory. Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, My lips will praise You.

8.  Noah  Abraham  David  Mary

10.  Galatians 5:16-25 – But I say walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh  Flesh vs. Spirit  Deeds of the flesh  Fruit of the Spirit

11.  Ephesians 4:1-3 --Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, implore you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another in love, being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

12.  Romans 12:1-2 -- Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

13.  They deny themselves.  They share their faith.  They serve their brethren.  The love their Lord.  They do not quench the Spirit’s fire.  They live abundantly.