Message by Jim Westheim concluding the series Perfect Love

This morning…the message is Perfect Love: Joined Together! Today we are talking about…what it means to be “JOINED TOGETHER”. This phrase JOINED TOGETHER comes from the inspired word of God! This phrase may not mean much to unbelievers, but to us…as followers of Christ…those words should mean a lot! Why? Because God wants what is best for us…why are these words important to us?…Because we want to have happy and fulfilled married life! We need to remember that God is the original designer of the family! If we are wise and careful…and follow God’s plan for family and marriage we can avoid the pain and rejection that the world does…because it ignores God and His word!

What is perfect love? Is there any such thing? If there is…how do we find it? Can we have it in our families? Is there hope for my marriage? Is there hope for my family? Common questions that you may be asking this morning…or have asked in the past. Everybody wants Perfect Love…everyone is searching for it…here is the problem…not everyone knows what it is or how to make it!

Every church should be make these 3 areas its primary focus. Every individual should prioritize three purposes. What are they? • Win people to Christ! • Build strong disciples! • Send people into mission in the market place and the world. These 3 purposes answer the question…why the church here. It answers the question what is the church supposed to be doing? It answers the question…”What am I supposed to be doing?” The answer is the same for the church and for us as individuals. • Win people to Christ! • Build strong disciples! • Send people into mission in the market place and the world. Last week we talked about how to win people to Christ. Today, I want to tell you how to build strong disciples!

Let me encourage you to set some goals…to make some resolutions. It is good for us to focus on an area in our life that we want to improve! Maybe it is being a better husband/wife/father/mother, maybe it is the perennial favorites of losing weight or saving money, maybe it is to develop your prayer life or spend more time reading God’s word…maybe it is reading God’s word as a family.