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Intro
Good morning church!
We are continuing our REVITALIZATION series.
Revitalize - permeate with new life and vitality
The church is to permeate with new life and vitality.
Jesus came to bring life and it is through the church that we can continue to bring life to not only our church family, but to our community as well.
There are FIVE FUNCTIONS of the church that we are going to look at during the course of this series that if we put into practice, we will revitalize our church.
Connect
Grow
Serve
Go
Worship
In Acts chapter two we are given a model of how the church is to function.
When the church functions as it was originally designed to function, lives will be changed and the kingdom of God will begin to grow.
Matthew 9:37 (NASB95)
37 Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.
When the church functions the way it was designed to function, we will have no issues with being co-laborers going out and gathering the harvest.
Let’s dive into the first function of the church.
A Loving Connection
The church was designed as a place to CONNECT.
We are called to connect with one another.
But this connection goes far beyond just simply having fellowship with one another.
It is also about connecting with those who walk through the doors and welcoming people from all walks of life.
I was one of those who walked away from the church.
The church I grew up in wanted to change me from the outside.
It was more about dressing a certain way than it was about Jesus changing my heart.
When I finally came back to the church I stood out like a sore thumb.
When I was 19 I moved back in with my mom in Northern Indiana.
Her rule has always been, “You live in my house, you go to church.”
So that’s what I did.
I went to church.
I showed up to church on a Sunday morning wearing all black, shot bead necklace, piercings, and a Marilyn Manson t-shirt with a huge anti-Christ symbol on it.
And wouldn’t you know, not one person said a word about the way I looked.
Not one person walked up to me and said, “You can’t dress that way in a church!”
No. What they did was love me where I was.
I received nothing more than the love of God from those men and women of God.
That loving church welcomed me as I was and loved me where I was in life and because of that love, the love of Christ, I am where I am today.
That love was the key.
They loved me because they loved one another.
Write this down:
Love among believers is not optional
Love is the necessary and central part of God’s calling for the church.
One of Jesus’ last commandments he gave to the disciples concerned the nature of their relationship with one another.
John 13:34–35 (NASB95)
34 “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
35 “By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
People in this world will not know we follow Jesus from the amount of time we spend at the church, read our bibles, or the Christian t-shirts we wear.
No.
They will know we belong to Christ because of the love we have for one another.
They will know we belong to Christ by how we treat one another.
The church model God designed for us to follow in Acts chapter two is believers loving one another.
They didn’t just say they loved one another, but you can see it in their actions.
“He wants us to love others so much that we go to extremes to help them.
We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God.” - Francis Chan
By this all men will know you are My disciples…if you have love for one another.
Here is the key.
You can’t give what you don’t have.
In order to love one another the way we are called to love, we have to fist receive it.
1 John 4:9–11 (NASB95)
9 By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him.
10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
If we recieved Christ, the epitome of God’s love, then we will show love towards others.
This love is the glue that holds everything together.
“Growing churches possess a measurably higher love quotient than stagnant, declining ones.
Healthy growing churches practice hospitality as believers invite others into their homes as a normal part of their Christian lives.
People don’t want to hear us talk about love, they want to experience how Christian love really works.”
Christian Scwartz (National Church Development)
God desires to include us in the process of revealing who He is to those around us.
How many of you know the story of Lazarus?
How many of you never heard of the story of Lazarus?
Just a brief synopsis of what is taking place.
Jesus had a friend named Lazarus.
This friend became sick and died.
Jesus showed up.
How many of you know that when Jesus shows up things change?
Listen to the Word.
John 11:38–39 (NASB95)
38 So Jesus, again being deeply moved within, came to the tomb.
Now it was a cave, and a stone was lying against it.
39 Jesus said, “Remove the stone.”
Martha, the sister of the deceased, said to Him, “Lord, by this time there will be a stench, for he has been dead four days.”
Who did Jesus ask to remove the stone?
The people.
John 11:40–43 (NASB95)
40 Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?”
41 So they removed the stone.
Then Jesus raised His eyes, and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.
42 “I knew that You always hear Me; but because of the people standing around I said it, so that they may believe that You sent Me.”
43 When He had said these things, He cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth.”
Who cried out with a loud voice?
Jesus.
Who called Lazarus forth?
Jesus.
John 11:44 (NASB95)
44 The man who had died came forth, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth.
Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”
Who unbound Lazarus?
The people.
Who had to hop out of the cave?
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