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Trying to accomplish a job without having a plan in place is a plan for failure.
There’s nothing worse than a mission without a plan.
It’s one thing to have a vague concept or idea, but having a clear plan of execution is a different thing altogether.
Whether it’s remodeling a portion of your house or planning out your next vacation, a plan is critical to take an idle dream to completion of any worthwhile project.
You might know that you need to remodel that leaky bathroom downstairs or put together a memorable date night to celebrate your fifteenth wedding anniversary.
Anyone can see a task that needs to be done.
Idle dreamers can imagine the fruits of their finished projects while they drift off to sleep each night.
Most people dream; few plan and execute.
You might know that you need to remodel that leaky bathroom downstairs or put together a memorable date night to celebrate your fifteenth wedding anniversary.
Anyone can see a task that needs to be done.
Idle dreamers can imagine the fruits of their finished projects while they drift off to sleep each night.
Most people dream; few plan and execute.
The same holds true for God’s people in His church.
Most Christians open affirm the mission of evangelizing the lost and discipling them to spiritual maturity.
But there’s often a big difference between understanding and affirming the goal of missions in the church and acting upon a plan of action to reach such worthwhile goals.
What is required is that God’s people take personal responsibility for reaching these goals.
I would say that this church is better than most in laying out such a plan as our plan to fulfill our promises to give to the annual mission offerings.
Fund
This fund is a plan for church members to give monthly to missions by designating their funds to the fund.
If it were not for this fund, then we as a church would likely struggle every year to meet our goals like many churches do every year.
But since we have set up this fund, we have met and exceeded our goals regularly.
Many churches struggle with this yearly.
Now and Then
Now and Then
It wouldn’t be hard for us to imagine that we live in a modern time where apathy and passivity toward God’s mission can be blamed on millenials or, as my father might have said it, “these kids today.”
When we look at the early church on the pages of scripture, we notice the exponential growth and we automatically think that the early believers were just more blessed or somehow different than we are today.
But the case can be clearly made that the early believers had exactly the same Holy Spirit that we have today.
And they each had the same carnal flesh and sinful temptations that we endure today.
It would have been just as easy for them to squander God’s same mission that we have been entrusted with today.
The Early church faced a culture steeped in paganism, while our culture is enthralled with humanism.
The stakes were high in the first century.
The young Church faced a culture steeped in paganism and violently repulsed by the claims of the gospel.
Today’s Church faces a similar challenge.
The Church has been marginalized to the fringes of society and spiritual forces war against the spread of the gospel.
Some 269 million people across North America are disconnected from a relationship with God and His Church.
Yet, hundreds of churches close their doors every year.
In most cities, the lost population continues to grow exponentially while the growth of the Church lags far behind.
It’s time for the Church to act!
The Early church was repulsed by the claims of the gospel, while our culture is repulsed by any suggestion that they might fall short of perfection.
Today’s Church faces a similar challenge.
The Church has been marginalized to the fringes of society and spiritual forces continue to war against the spread of the gospel.
and violently repulsed by the claims of the gospel.
Today’s Church faces a similar challenge.
The Church has been marginalized to the fringes of society and spiritual forces war against the spread of the gospel.
Some 269 million people across North America are disconnected from a relationship with God and His Church.
Yet, hundreds of churches close their doors every year.
In most cities, the lost population continues to grow exponentially while the growth of the Church lags far behind.
It’s time for the Church to act!
Today’s Church faces a similar challenge.
The Church has been marginalized to the fringes of society and spiritual forces war against the spread of the gospel.
Some 269 million people across North America are disconnected from a relationship with God and His Church.
Yet, hundreds of churches close their doors every year.
In most cities, the lost population continues to grow exponentially while the growth of the Church lags far behind.
It’s time for the Church to act!
There are currently some 269 million people across North America who are disconnected from a relationship with God and His Church.
Yet, hundreds of churches close their doors every year.
It’s time for the Church to act!
The letters of 1, 2 and 3 John were sent to various Christian communities in the latter part of the first century during a time when the Church faced severe opposition through external persecution and internal false teaching.
Those factors would have made it easy to abandon God’s mission to declare and demonstrate the gospel to the ends of the earth.
John’s challenge the Church rejected a survival mindset and called the Church to active engagement in the mission of God regardless of the cost.
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The Need to Pursue
What John is saying in today’s language is this...
Don’t just give lip service to love, but put love in action!
Love is John’s plan for executing the mission of God.
But we humans live in a fallen state.
We are not capable of sacrificial love on our own strength.
But we have a perfect example… one to aspire to.
Back in verse 16 we are reminded that Jesus (our perfect role model) gave that kind of love for us and has asked us to love others as he himself has love us.
But we have a perfect example… one to aspire to.
Back in verse 16
Since we are recipients of this love, it is therefore possible for us to practice something that is not in our nature.
Notice that back in verse 16, John bases his call on the fact that all of those who are saved by God have received the type of love he is calling them to embody.
Jesus demonstrated the extent of the love of God by willingly laying down His life to save sinners.
Those who have received this love must love others.
I know some Christians that say, “I’m just not very compassionate.”
But love is not an optional add-on for us.
Love is one of the fruit of the Spirit.
That means if we have the Spirit in us, then we will be exhibiting this fruit more and more each day.
We begin to represent God’s character more and more each day.
We begin to love others just as Christ loves us.
Seen in this light, love is not an optional add-on for the Christian.
We cannot refrain from loving others since love is a fruit of God’s Spirit () and a representation of God’s character ().
We must love.
Our fallen world is desperately in need of love.
We all encounter people daily who are crushed under the weight of this broken world.
marriages are falling apart
addictions trap people in sin
poor health and illness remind us that death is imminent
Many wonder how they have the strength to face another day.
And some give up altogether.
Even those who aren’t currently confronted by such life-altering issues face the reality that life is far from perfect.
The love that we have… Christian love... is the answer to this desperate condition that our friends, family, neighbors and co-workers live with each day.
As we look out across the hurt and despair of our nation, it’s clear that many are in need of this type of active love.
As we look out across the hurt and despair of our nation, it’s clear that many are in need of this type of active love.
And every year, missionaries are commissioned by the North American Mission Board to do just that; they demonstrate this love by bringing the gospel to those who need it most.
We have a gift of love for these who are so desperate for it without knowing the solution.
We merely are required to give that love away by bringing the gospel to those who need it most.
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The Negative to Avoid
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