Christian Responsibility: Order in the Church
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Christian Responsibility: Order in the Church
Christian Responsibility: Order in the Church
Proposition/Behavioral Aim: We have the responsibility as believers to order our lives by the power of the Holy Spirit to reflect the redemption of God found in Jesus Christ
Introduction
Introduction
As we start the new year it is customary for people to do new years resolutions. Where we take inventory of last year and resolve or plan to do better by being better. New Year’s resolutions are supposed to make us better, but the problem is unless we have an image of better, we will reproduce the image that we already have.
The practice is not bad, but the problem is where we get our image.
In the gospel God gives us an image of better. Being better people, better church.
How we are as church is ultimately rooted in how we are ordered and structured as church. This is not just how we are structured in the local congregation but in our lives as well. As Christians we have a responsibility to structure and order ourselves so that we and the world get the right picture of not simply us,but of the gospel and the redemptive love of God.
Order produces a certain outcome and we have to ask ourselves as Christians what outcome are we responsible in producing?
We have the responsibility to order our lives to reflect the radical gospel of a loving and redeeming God
We have the responsibility to order our lives to reflect the radical gospel of a loving and redeeming God
We have the responsibility to order our lives to develop our hope in the face of the desire to trust ourselves more than God
We have the responsibility to order our lives to develop our hope in the face of the desire to trust ourselves more than God
We have the responsibility to order our lives to be obedient to God’s command to proclaim the gospel entrusted to us
We have the responsibility to order our lives to be obedient to God’s command to proclaim the gospel entrusted to us
Celebration :
Celebration :
When we truly live the gospel that is common to the Church, that is rooted in Christ, that is empowered by the Holy Spirit for the glory of redeeming and loving God we are promised the gifts of grace and peace. We are not promised the absence of struggle or conflict. We are not promised that scandal and trouble will not come, but we are promised that we will have the grace= power to deal with it and to serve God in the face of trouble and peace=freedom from anxiety and worry as we struggle to engage the ministry God has given us.