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Announcements
Carowinds
Meet at the church at 8am on Saturday
Bring: money for food, water bottle, liability waiver
If you want to go to the waterpark let Sean know tonight
Game Night
Next Wednesday
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Last Wednesday night
Pool Party @ McMahons
Next Thursday @ 6pm
Bring bathing suit, towel, and a friend
We’ll have hamburgers and hot dogs
Game (GIF Charades)
2-3 Contestants
Prayer
We Believe in Mission
Introduction
For the past 10-12 weeks we have been exploring what We Believe as Christians, because when we take on the title Christian we are not saying we are in a club or fraternity.
We are saying we believe in a specific set of doctrines.
We are saying we believe that there is a God, that we believe in the Bible, that there we are sinners in a lost world.
We are saying we believe that Jesus was God in the flesh, that he lived, died, and was raised again.
We are saying that there is a very real place called Hell and a very real place called Heaven and that faith in Jesus is the only way to salvation.
But all of these Christian beliefs really leads us to a specific question, what are we to do?
Because we believe in God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit.
Because we believe in the Bible as God’s Word, because we believe that Jesus is not just a man but the Christ who is our prophet, priest and king.
Because we believe in Heaven and Hell.
What are we to do?
Our believe, our faith, compels us to action.
God doesn’t call us to just know Him, but to believe in Him and to live for Him.
This living for God is called Mission.
That there is a purpose for our life.
And this Mission has two parts: An overarching aspect and a specific aspect.
And God has given us, Christians, a very important task.
In fact God is on a mission and He brings us along with it.
What is the Mission?
Matthew 28:19-20
The Overarching Mission
The overarching mission is God’s Mission to save a perishing world.
- “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
The World is perishing because of our sin and rebellion against God.
Because of our sin there is death and suffering and separation from God.
And it is God’s Mission to save us through the message of the gospel.
And this is the gospel is that whoever believes in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus will have eternal life.
When we believed in that-- we were not only saved by God’s mission but we were saved onto God’s mission.
We became a part of that mission of salvation.
Our lives are now a testimony of God’s saving mission.
We are walking billboards declaring that there is a savior and His name is Jesus.
When we gather together as a church we are saying we are God’s people
And it doesn’t matter if we are in our homes or at school or together as the church.
If we are in Jesus, we are declaring that God has a mission for the world and it is a rescue mission.
But we are not only a part of God’s overarching mission, we are also given a very specific task in that mission.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” -
Key Truth: The Mission is not our mission it is God’s Mission
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” - John 3:16
Definition:
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), .
Definition:
“The task and work of the church and individual Christians to participate in God’s redemptive activity and to make him known to others with the hope that all people would love and *worship God.”
Kelly M. Kapic and Wesley Vander Lugt, Pocket Dictionary of the Reformed Tradition, The IVP Pocket Reference Series (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2013), 75.
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18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.
And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), .
What this passage is saying is that the specific task every believer has, is to help others believe in Jesus and live for Jesus.
That is what it means to make disciples.
Knowing Jesus
To help someone believe in Jesus and live for Jesus.
And a key part of living for Jesus is to make disciples
Believing
That is the “teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you”
That is our task.
Did you know that discipleship begins with evangelism?
And we know that there is so much at stake if people do not believe.
What is at stake?
What is at stake?
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ILLUSTRATION:
Meg - grew up in the church, dad’s a chaplain, traveled around, desperately wanted friends, wanted to fit in, met a boy thought the only way she would be liked was to have sex.
God showed her that He loves her not for who she wanted to be, but in her sin, and that He cleanses her of all the guilt
I have a friend Stevo - he was a popular guy in HS, athletic, star baseball player, got a scholarship to play at CofC.
His life was summed up with baseball and his girlfriend.
End of his freshman year (19) his girlfriend left him for another guy, he blew out his shoulder ending his baseball career.
His entire identity was wrapped up in these two things which were now gone.
He entered a time of severe depression and contemplated hurting himself.
Then random guy asked him if he believed in Jesus.
Stevo responded yes of course, he grew up in church.
The guy responded isn’t it great to know we eternal life because Jesus died in our place?!
This stunned Stevo.
Life?
Eternal Life? because Jesus died in my place.
Stevo realized he hadn’t believed in that, but the more he thought on it the more he realized that there was an offer of life of hope.
His life wasn’t over, but that it was secure because the death he deserved was fulfilled by Jesus.
He had a new identity, a new life that was in Jesus.
Life and Death is at stake when we are talking about God’s Mission.
Jesus tells a parable in that is fitting to this.
Give context, start in verse 22b
Luke 16:19-
An Eternity of Punishment or an Eternity of Life is at stake for every single person
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