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Intro: My dog Brick was about three things; eating, napping with a rock in the mouth, and loving his master.
In the nine years I had Brick I knew this about him; he would never ever waiver from those things.
Those were what he was about.
Those were his first loves.
Same for our cat Obi.
So, what are we about?
What are we known for, or want to be known for?
What is our walk with Jesus about as a church?
We as leadership have begun the vision process for the future.
We have begun to meet and start t strategize for the future of CPCC.
It is a difficult task at times, but dreaming is awesome.
Here's the bottom line for me: for all of our dreaming about what the future looks like, I know there will be three things that must ever-present, because if they're not, I can't be here.
I've been profoundly shaped in three areas, that wherever I go, they must be there, and wherever they are not, I start to feel like, "This might not be right for me."
First, we will always be a biblically serious church.
We're going to preach the Bible, love the Bible, read the Bible, memorize the Bible, take seriously the Word of God.
This isn't a pep rally.
We're going to be people of the Book.
This can never change, because I don't know how to do anything else than read this book and then talk about it with you.
Second, we are going to be spiritually alive.
To be doctrinally pure and dead is not a win.
It's rebuked in the Bible, not exalted.
The point of the Bible is love and understanding of Jesus, his preeminence, and his lordship over our lives.
Any knowledge of the Word of God not leading to spiritual vibrancy isn't a knowledge of the Word of God.
It's knowing some sentences, not illuminated by the Holy Spirit.
We're going to be serious about the Word of God, we're going to be serious about spiritual life, being alive in Christ.
Okay, so are you with me?
Thirdly we are going to be serious about the sent, and serious about going when God calls.
If any of those three pillars fall apart, then I probably should not be the front man of CPCC.
We need to pray and fast and seek the face of God, because I wouldn't even know how to preach in an environment that doesn't value those things.
So wherever we're going, those three things will be pillars of our future here.
If that's a new building, if that's a new format, if that's a new style, whatever.
I don't know how to go about this any other way.
Certainly, there are other things that are important and there are other things we need to consider.
But moving forward, those three things are going to be the things we keep coming back to over and over and over and over again, because it's what I know and what we need to know.
You know, this is how CPCC was birthed friends?
These are the pillars this church was birthed on.
So has anything changed?
I don't know if you know this, but we know more about the church at Ephesus than we know any other church in the Bible.
We watch Ephesus born in Acts 19.
We watch Ephesus be encouraged in the book of Ephesians.
We watch Ephesus get challenged in 1 and 2 Timothy.
We watch Ephesus get rebuked in 1, 2, and 3 John.
And then we watch Ephesus get threatened by Christ himself in Revelation 2. Can we just talk about how all-star that staff was?
Timothy, who trained under Paul, who trained under Christ, the resurrected Christ.
So yeah, pretty good resume of a church, right?
Also, Don’t forget about John, the disciple whom Jesus loved.
What a nickname, right?
What up “JTDWJL!”
The disciple whom Jesus loved.
That was his nickname.
I was called big man and big guy.
Yet this is a church, despite all of the all-star staff they had through the years, they drifted in a way you wouldn't expect, or at least I wouldn't expect.
Today we will look at the end and then back to the beginning of the church of Ephesus.
I think in the beginning we get some insight into what we need to think about, dream about, pray about, hope for as a family of faith.
Read: Revelation 2:1-7
There are some things about this church I want to highlight.
At the beginning, it sounds like the kind of church I want my kids to join.
Let's look at it.
They're serious about holiness.
The church at Ephesus, 65 to 70 years after they began is still serious about holiness.
They work.
They toil.
They have patient endurance.
They're serious about holiness.
They are doctrinally sound.
The only way you can spot a false apostle, a false teaching is to know true teaching.
Right?
That's how you spot false teaching.
They're serious about holiness.
Look at verse 3.
They endure.
Let's think about endurance.
You know this, but I just want to highlight it.
None of the compulsions of the modern era are new to the modern era.
We're looking around like, "Oh my gosh.
We are such a sex-crazed, sex-obsessed culture."
Yeah, and in Ephesus the Temple of Artemis existed with thousands of both male and female prostitutes, and you would worship by visiting them.
It's not like, "Oh, look at what has happened to humanity."
Humanity has been a train wreck since Genesis 3.
Here is where it looks different.
When things get rough in our faith we have a natural inclination, not all the time maybe, to question, “Should I walk away from my faith?"
We don’t endure very well in our faith as a whole.
This group in Ephesus were being tormented and persecuted by the prevailing culture.
No one in this room is going to have their house looted today because they love Jesus.
No one is going to be arrested.
No one is going to be killed.
No one is going to have their stuff taken from them.
They also have the full force of a secularized, enraged, Christianity-hating, "Let's wipe it off the face of the earth" government pressing in on them.
What Jesus says is, "You've been faithful.
You've endured.
You haven't turned your back.
You keep moving forward.
I'm proud of you.
I see you."
That's what's being said.
This is feel good story!
I mean I’m ready to join the church, right?
Yet I think the critique is devastating and undoes all of that.
The critique is that they have abandoned their first love.
They've abandoned it.
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