YOU'RE INVITED

Pastor Dave Gargano's sermon "You're Invited" emphasizes the power of invitations and the impact they have on our lives. He shares personal stories and biblical examples to illustrate how invitations can lead to life-changing experiences. Pastor Dave challenges the audience to use their words as invitations to share God's love and grace with others. He calls for action, encouraging everyone to extend personal invitations to church and commit to inviting others to experience God's love and grace.Proverbs 18:21 says the tongue has the power of life and death Matthew 5:13 You are the salt of the earthMatthew 5:14 You are the light of the world2 Corinthians 5:20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.Matthew 16:19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever doors you lock on earth will be locked in heaven, and whatever you open on earth will be opened in heaven.”Luke 6:36 You must be compassionate, just as your Father is compassionate. Romans 12:3 I realize God has treated me with undeserved grace, and so I tell each of you not to think you are better than you really are. Use good sense and measure yourself by the amount of faith that God has given you.Matthew 11:28  If you are tired from carrying heavy burdens, come to me and I will give you rest.Matthew 19:14 But Jesus said, “Let the children come to me, and don't try to stop them! People who are like these children belong to God's kingdom.”John 7:37 On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.John 6:37 Everything and everyone that the Father has given me will come to me, and I won't turn any of them away.2 Peter 1:3-4The Message Everything that goes into a life of pleasing God has been miraculously given to us by getting to know, personally and intimately, the One who invited us to God. The best invitation we ever received!Matt 28:19-20 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”Matthew 12:21 NIV In his name the nations will put their hope.Romans 10:14 How can people have faith in the Lord and ask him to save them, if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear, unless someone tells them?Matthew 22:9-10 “Then he told his servants, ‘We have a wedding banquet all prepared but no guests. The ones I invited weren’t up to it. Go out into the busiest intersections in town and invite anyone you find to the banquet.’ The servants went out on the streets and rounded up everyone they laid eyes on, good and bad, regardless. And so the banquet was on—every place filled.Luke 5: 31-32 Jesus heard about it and spoke up, “Who needs a doctor: the healthy or the sick? I’m here inviting outsiders, not insiders—an invitation to a changed life, changed inside and out.”