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On the 30th I am giving a sermon at my church. Which is crazy because I am not a preacher. I have never wanted to be a preacher. Every 5th Sunday we do something different for the service and this time they offered to let me preach. That is certainly different. I am a theater kid so I am a good speaker. So I figured doing one sermon would be easy. Well it isn't super difficult but writing it takes some time. It has to flow and make sense. I was told sermon is usually 15-20 minutes and that I should shoot for 10 minutes. It is 5 minutes long. Now I didn't want to change anything because it all flows well. Here is essentially what my sermon is about. John 3:16 is the verse you see on the back of cars. It is peoples twitter bio. People give out free things that say John 3:16. John 3:16 is exactly "For god so loved the world that he gave his only son, so that everyone who believes in him won't perish but have eternal life." Now to Christians this sounds awesome. Cool we have eternal life because we believe in Jesus good for us! Yet to someone who knows nothing about Christianity and has never been to church they could have opposite feelings about this verse. They could feel like (just based on this one verse) that god doesn't seem very welcoming. that only Christians get into heaven and i am not good enough to be a christian. That is just not the case! God loves everyone equally no matter how many sins a person has created. God loves people who don't believe in him because everyone is his child and was created in his image. Jesus doesn't judge and we need to try and be like Jesus.

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