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Gracefully Broken

Sunday, June 7, 20269am
📖 MRK.6.41-MRK.6.44
“Gracefully broken.” From the feeding of the five thousand, the sermon says grace can make more of life than expected and that what is broken and offered to Jesus can become provision for others.
Key Points
1.
Receive grace as God’s gift that can make more of life than expected.
2.
Recognize that some things were meant to be broken.
3.
See what is already present as part of Jesus’ compassionate provision for others.

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Sermon Summary

The sermon announces the title “Gracefully broken” after reading Mark 6:41–44. It describes grace as more than what people have disqualified themselves from receiving; grace can bring a gift that “makes more of your life than what you ever thought was possible.”

Some things were meant to be broken

Using the breaking of the loaves, the sermon says, “Some things were just meant to be broken.”

Feed the people with what is already here

The sermon says, “We’re going to feed the people with what’s already here,” and connects Jesus’ actions in the text to compassion for the crowd.

Grace can make provision for others

The sermon says some listeners may have believed they were being used or manipulated without realizing that God had positioned them for somebody else through the response of compassion in the text.

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Gracefully broken.

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Some things were just meant to be broken.

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We’re going to feed the people with what’s already here.

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