1 Peter 3:15 NASB “Sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence.” Colossians 4:5-6 NASB Conduct yourselves with wisdom toward outsiders, making the most of the opportunity. Let your speech always be with grace, as though seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you should respond to each person. • When sharing our faith we speak of wh

John 15:12-13 NASB This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. 1 John 4:19 NASB We love, because He first loved us. • We are new, reborn and recreated, and our perspective is no longer of this world. We do not fight as the world does, against flesh and blood, but against an evil that grips men’s hearts. At one time, we too were enslaved, held captive, striving again

Nehemiah 8:10 NASB “Do not be grieved, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.” Philippians 4:4 NASB “Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice!” 1 Peter 1:8-9 NASB “though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, obtaining as the outcome of your faith the salvation of your souls.” • Joy, and the overflow or expression of that joy, rejoicing, wells up