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God’s Great Love For The Church
This week we are going to deviate from where we’ve been a bit.
We’ve been in I Corinthians for a while talking about how the Lord has gifted the church with spiritual gifts so that we can serve the church.
But this week we are changing gears a bit, and going to spend some time in 2 different passages.
We will bounce between these two passages.
We will be in and then
Let me go ahead and read those now, then dive into the sermon.
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“28 Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.”
And then there is
“11 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,
What is it you love?
What is it that you love more than anything else, and what would you do to protect that?
We do great thing for the things that we love.
I tried thinking of some funny analogy of the things that we love.
I thought of the man who has an expensive classic car.
This past week, I was in the hospital with Amanda and her mom.
He spends his Saturday’s washing and waxing his prized car.
It’s his baby.
Then think of the day his son borrows the car … and wrecks it.
I tried to think of some funny way to get the point across.
Unfortunately, for me, this past week has been rather intense.
At the time of me writing this sermon, I was sitting in the ICU waiting room.
Amanda’s mom was dying as I wrote this sermon.
At the time that I was writing this sermon, she was dying.
I talk about what people will do for the things that we love.
I talk about what people will do for the things that we love.
Amanda had family come from all over the place.
As I wrote this sermon, one of Amanda’s aunts was in the ICU room.
She changed her plans, and came down from Northern California, to spend time with her sister.
Another one of Amanda’s aunts was on vacation in Florida.
But when she heard about Amanda’s mom dying, she flew across the country to be there.
I’m sure you’ve had those moments where someone that you love was in danger, and you would do almost anything to show your appreciation.
We do great thing for the things that we love.
I saw that this past week.
I tried thinking of some funny analogy of the things that we love
On Sundays we have been talking about the church.
We have been talking about how we are to find out what our gifts are so that we could then serve the church.
We’ve been talking about our involvement and care for the church.
But our motivation must first be that we love the church.
Because we do great things for those that we love.
Why do we love the church?
Because God loves the church.
When you are around someone that you admire or look up to, you naturally desire to like the things he likes.
When I’m around Richard LaPorte, I can’t help but like hockey.
When I’m around Ed Burke, I want to become crafty and get better at making stuff with my own hands.
I see it with Amanda, she likes baseball and will talk to me about my nerd interests.
And I’m aware of some of the characters on HGTV and decorating because of her.
And when I’m in fellowship with God, I want to get better at loving the church, because He loves the church so much.
What I’d like to do this morning is show that God loves the church by gifting people to be leaders of the church, who will then equip us to better serve the church.
God’s love provides leaders to care for the church.
What are the lengths that God would go to for caring for the church?
This week we are going to deviate from where we’ve been a bit, but it’s actually all part of the same theme.
We’ve been in I Corinthians for a while talking about how the Lord has gifted the church with spiritual gifts so that we can serve the church.
But this week we are changing gears a bit, and going to spend some time in 2 different passages.
The first text we will be in is Acts 20:28.
We will be in and then
We’ve been in I Corinthians for a while talking about how the Lord has gifted the church with spiritual gifts so that we can serve the church.
Let me go ahead and read those now, then dive into the sermon.
Read
“28 Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.”
Do you see God’s love for the church there?
What was the length that God went to for loving His church?
“11 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,
It’s a Trinitarian love.
We see each of the members of the Trinity on display in their love for the church.
The Holy Spirit starts this display of love.
He makes overseers, Elders, to care for the church.
The love of God is so great, that he doesn’t intend for the church to be leaderless.
In America we don’t do well with leaders.
We aren’t trusting towards leaders, especially when it comes to religion.
American Christianity is very private.
We don’t like to involve people in our private religious life.
We like to emphasize the personal nature of our religion, emphasizing that this is a relationships between me and God.
Which is true.
But it’s not only that.
Many people are drifting away from the church, and instead aiming for a private religion.
They do church by themselves.
But is this what God intends?
God never intends for Christians to be isolated or alone.
The American church likes to be separate.
We like our boundaries.
We like to get in our cars, drive to church, do church, then drive home and go back to having our own private lives.
It’s a rare church that has people actually involved in one another’s lives.
And yet, the way the New Testament describes the church, it’s that they were involved in each others lives.
God desires us to be in a community, to be in the local church.
describes the young church banding together, sharing what they had.
It says “they had everything in common” and that no one was in need.
There fellowship was intense.
Not only are we to be in community, but we are to live under faithful leaders
says for us to not neglect meeting together.
The American church likes to be separate.
We like our boundaries.
We like to get in our cars, drive to church, do church, then go back to having our own private lives.
It’s a rare church that has people actually involved in one another’s lives.
And yet, the way the New Testament describes the church it’s that they were involved in the church.
We need to be around each other, but then when we are around each other, there need to be leaders to care for the church.
A display of God’s love is that He provides leaders to care for the church.
To oversee the church.
But may I go a step further, God not only has provided leaders, but He has gifted those leaders.
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