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When we’re on fire…
When we are prepared...
When we are laser focused…
We are deployed.
My first message in this series on our purpose as a church was on being disciplined believers.
Setting controlled burns in our life - specific things that we would do on purpose, for a purpose.
Things that we actually have to do - not things that just happen to us or in us.
Stuff we do.
Recap prepared - ready to answer for the hope that is within you.
my next message was to be prepared.
That we should have a relationship with Jesus worth talking about, and exist in a state of being ready to talk about him.
We took a look at Philip - and the way that he responded to the lord when called to minister to the Ethiopian man.
Then, if you can remember back - I preached on being focused.
Keeping the most important thing the most important thing.
When we lose focus on our Lord, when we widen our view out to try to capture every social issue and trial that comes before mankind - we lose effectiveness.
When we are laser focused on the lord, we are enabled to truly bring him glory, and maybe through that some of the issues of the day are handled.
When we’re on fire…
When we are prepared...
When we are laser focused…
We are deployed.
Today I want to continue this conversation of who we are as believers, who we are called to be as a church, with what seems to be the final piece of our existence.
Equipped for the ministry and sharing the gospel - deployed.
Into the church and into the world.
Being a christian is not supposed to be a segmented part of your big life.
Your relationship with Christ is not supposed to be just like your relationship with one of your friends from work.
And if it looks like that - I challenge you that you have no relationship at all.
If you define yourself as a believer - if you are a follower of Christ, that is the thing that you are first.
You are a Christian, who happens to also be a -------- whatever else you are.
A husband or wife, a parent, a worker....
Your identity in christ should dominate the rest of your existence.
That sounds crazy extreme, and it is.
As a christian first… our activity - the expected activity - the stuff that God tells us throughout scripture that we aught to be doing falls into two categories.
The things we do inside the church
The things we do outside the church
As believers - we are called to do things.
To actual doing.
If there is an instruction in scripture that applies to you, it requires actual doing.
It isn’t something that happens to you or around you, it is something that you put efforts into.
When we have our relationship with Jesus right.. which is what I have been preaching on since Jan 1 this year - Controlled burns, prepared, focused… He sends us to do the things.
Here’s the problem....
We don’t go.
We stay focused on ourselves.
Our misery.
Our problems.
Our struggles.
Our successes.
Our wins.
Jesus, throughout all of this scripture SENDS US OUT and we stand here like a bump on a log.
No intention of going or doing anything.
We are content with being.
Today we are going to talk about what it looks like to go.
The expectation that we are deployed.
Inside the church:
One another one another.
In the new testament, more than 100 times.. .the
greek word Allelon appears.
And that word is translated every time as some sort of calling together.
And I have a list of about 30 of them.
Whenever we see that word, it is an instruction to us, as the church to come along side us, as the church and provide for us, as the church.
God - being all knowing, all powerful, and all present that He is - looked at the church and said....
They are going to need some help.
So he gave us help.
He sent the holy spirit, and he sent us eachother.
He built the church to be the body of christ, that we would work together - exist together, help one another.
God gave us two hands in our own body - and those two hands support one another.
When things get heavy, physically, we have a few options.
We can add the second hand, just to stabilize.
Thats where your dominate hand can handle the load, but once in a while the wind picks up.
So your other hand is just keeping things steady.
Sometimes, we add that second hand to the situation just to come alongside the first, for better grip and more pulling power.
Sometimes when things get heavy, we add that second hand to split the load up.
Carrying groceries… You’ve got to do it in one load… so your dominate hand carries 600 pounds, and your other hand carries whatever is left over.
And - sometimes when things get too heavy… we use our other hand to keep our hand from getting crushed.
We’ve got those two hands.
And one supports the other, allowing us to accomplish great things.
The passage in 1 Corinthians 12 describes our reality as all parts of the body of Christ...
Yet, for some reason we wander around as though we only have just that one hand or not even that hand - we’ve got a couple of stubs on the end of our elbows, and we can’t do anything with them at all.
Several of us went to school with Nikki Kelly - and should know that you can accomplish a lot with one of them nubs.
We’ve decided as a people, not this church, the church as a whole, that we are going to wander around as if we are all alone.
It’s just me and Jesus, and he’s been awful quiet.
I’m not helping nobody, and nobody is helping me.
Why?
The easiest answer is this....
It’s too personal.
It’s too messy.
These people can’t know I’ve got stuff going on.
Yep.
It is.
It is way too personal.
Did you know, the last time you went to the bathroom and sat down on that stool it took your whole body to deal with the mess you were making?
Think that through.
Unless you have some sort of self cleaning apparatus, there were ligaments and phalanges involved in your deification.
There is a reason we have soap!
So we can wash up!
And even that takes two hands.
With the help of the internet, I have compiled a list of like 30 of those one another statements.
I want to be a part of a church that loves one another well enough to do the rest of this. .
Outside the church:
Be a Witness.
This is sharing the gospel.
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