Exodus 33:12-18

12 Moses said to the LORD, "You have been telling me, 'Lead these people,' but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. You have said, 'I know you by name and you have found favor with me.'

13 If you are pleased with me, teach me your ways so I may know you and continue to find favor with you. Remember that this nation is your people."

Exodus 33:12 - 18

14 The LORD replied, "My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.“

 15 Then Moses said to him, "If your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here. 16 How will anyone know that you are pleased with me and with your people unless you go with us? What else will distinguish me and your people from all the other people on the face of the earth?" 

Exodus 33:12 - 18

 17 And the LORD said to Moses, "I will do the very thing you have asked, because I am pleased with you and I know you by name." 18 Then Moses said, "Now show me your glory."

Deuteronomy 32:10 - 12

10 In a desert land he found him,  in a barren and howling waste.  He shielded him and cared for him;  he guarded him as the apple of his eye,

 11 like an eagle that stirs up its nest  and hovers over its young,  that spreads its wings to catch them  and carries them on its pinions.

John 20:19 - 21

19 On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you!"

20After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord.

John 20:19 - 21

21 Again Jesus said, "Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.

Acts 1:1

1 In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach  

Acts 1:6 - 8

6 So when they met together, they asked him, "Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?"

Acts 1:6 - 8

7 He said to them: "It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority.

8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."

Jeremiah 29:7

Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the LORD for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper."

Two dangers:

Accommodation

Isolation

John 17:15 - 17

15 My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.

16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of it.

17 Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.

Amos 5:23 - 24 (New International Version) 23 Away with the noise of your songs!  I will not listen to the music of your harps. 24 But let justice roll on like a river,  righteousness like a never-failing stream!