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SERMON OUTLINE – WEEK 1 I LOVE MY CHURCH INTRODUCTION Projected Aim: To introduce the concept that loving the church means loving the people. Key Passage: John 13:34-35 Before the Message: Have dry erase board or equivalent for writing down people’s answers during intro, have pictures for intro ready to go, have I Love My Church T-shirt on hand for the closing. There are different places, locations, buildings that we eventually have to visit in life. I’m not talking about Disney World, that’s a “want to” visit place. I’m talking about the places we need to go to just because of the course of life : school, for example, or the dentist’s office. Various necessary places will invoke a variety of responses in us. We feel different about going to the mall compared to say going to the dentist. Let’s talk about a few. I’m going to put an image of a place up on the screen, and I want you to say the first word that comes to mind about how people typically feel in regard to having to go to these locations. Give me a word. 1st image: DMV 2nd image: Doctor’s office 3rd image: Grocery store ***Have a dry erase board or something of the sort and write down the words that people say for each one.*** Not the most rave reviews, right? Some worse than others, but in all three of them you can see that we go to these places in most cases because we have to, not necessarily because we want to. And look at our list of words. No one said, “Love it!” did they? (***Make sure this is true obviously, ad lib as necessary.***) You’ll occasionally hear someone say they love their grocery store if a comparison with other places is going on, and the same for the doctor’s office is possible. But if anyone ever says they love going to the DMV, you’re going to assume they