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Building our Lives, Together -- Oct 18

"Build yourselves up in your most holy faith..." Jude 1:20   Last night at the 6:45 service we had a community question: What is something you have built that you are most proud of? It's a great question because there are so many things that we can build and what am really proud of? I thought about: building a culture in our church (better communication, service and small groups), building a house in Mexico (many times), building family traditions (like toasting each other for special occasions), building faith in students (over two decades of student ministries), building a staff that works well together. But I quickly realize that I am proud of what has been built but I didn't build anything alone. Everything I mentioned above was built together with others. In this little-read epistle, Jude (maybe the brother of Jesus) writes in the plural to dear friends , and to build yourselves up. Is it possible to build faith, ministries, traditions, alone ? As w