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I - Passion at new life, I wondered “Now What?”
When I was 15.
walking up front at New Life Church after "Passion"
Felt convicted, knew something had to change.
I was so grateful for God’s love I wanted to love him back, I wanted to do anything.
I felt like I needed to love God better.
They gave me a new testament and some sour patch kids
I ate the sour patch kids before I got home and I’m not sure what happened to the New Testament.
I really wondered, Now What?
I prayed the prayer again, I accepted Jesus, now what?
I’m not sure much changed in my life accept that I felt more guilty doing anything but Loving God what I thought of as church stuff.
I already went to church on Sundays, youth group on Sunday Nights, small group during the week
W- Some ways we have answered that question
We have been talking about OUTREACH a lot lately.
And its super important, but it raises the same question I had in that GIANT auditorium.
If we do reach out and when someone comes to christ, how do we answer that now what question?
And frankly how do we answer that “now what” question in our own lives
You believe in Jesus!
Now what?
We haven't always had the best answers to that question.
Go to church?
“How do I follow God best?” become a pastor - bible scholar - teacher
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Go to church?
Go to church more?
Give more?
Pray more?
Study the Bible?
Go become a pastor?
Serve?
Preach?
Worship?
sing Christian songs more?
Read the bible more?
Give as much as you can to the church?
Pray more?
Stop Sinning so much?
Put it away during the week and bring it out on Sunday?
Serve more?
Give more?
Devote more time/talent/treasure here?
As a Pastor I have been asking myself that question a lot lately and we have been wrestling with it as a church.
Why do we do what we do?
What are the next steps we want people to take after coming to faith?
What are we supposed to do?
When you meet Jesus now what?
What is the mission, why do we come together.
We are a church, now what?
Transition: We turned to scripture for the answer to this question.
For our now what, for our mission.
Jesus when talking to his disciples sums up the now what nicely I think in something we call the Greatest Commandment and the Great Commission.
The Greatest Commandment
22:34–40pp—Mk 12:28–31
34 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together.
35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
i 38 This is the first and greatest commandment.
39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
j 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
The Great Commission
16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted.
18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.
And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
We are your church
At Bethel we break it down to three simple statements, and we are going to look at each of them over the next 3 weeks.
34 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together.
35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
LOVE GOD
LOVE OTHERS
37 Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
i 38 This is the first and greatest commandment.
39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
j 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
MAKE DISCIPLES
I believe everything we do together and even in life can fall into that mission.
G- How do we Love God
Jesus vs the pharisees, set the stage.
34 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together.
35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
i 38 This is the first and greatest commandment.
39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
j 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
Love God with heart, soul, and mind?
Love God Love others
Love God with heart, soul, and mind?
What do we do with that?
Love God with heart, soul, and mind?
Love neighbor as yourself?
Will get to that one next week.
Love neighbor as yourself?
Will get to that one next week.
Love God Love others
Jesus says all the Law and Prophets hang on these.
Seems pretty clear.
w/o these 2 command everything in Jesus Bible the OT falls apart...
Loving god - At first this sounds just like what I have often thought.
Do more “churchy stuff”
Join more churchy groups
hang out with more churchy people
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