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Mission: The Great Commission
Matthew 28:18-20 | Vince Miller
Good morning.
If you're visiting with us I think this is a great morning to be here
because we want to give you a little bit of an update of what we've been doing.
Paul and I have been trying to help in a transition and that's really our responsibility.
Our responsibility is to help this congregation move from our last Senior Pastor to
our next Senior Pastor.
During this time we
know that things can be a little unsettling, but we want to let you know that we've
been working hard behind the scenes to provide you with some things and with
some direction we believe will be helpful for the future.
Paul Bishop has been
working specifically with the staff and giving them some direction in this interim
time, helping them to understand their roles as it relates to each other while we're
without a Senior Pastor and then giving them direction, moving forward.
Also we've
been providing board development for our governing board here at this church,
and I’ve got to tell you that has been a fantastic time.
Paul and I both have sat in
numerous meetings with the board talking with them about things like our
constitution, talking with them about theological challenges, working through issues
that they've faced in transition.
We've talked about the vision of the church, the
history of the church, the mission of the church, strategy, future goals and values
that they would like to bring together to this body of believers in casting a vision for
the future.
Now these have been really invigorating conversations where our board
has dug in deep to the history that Ridgewood has had over many years, and then
trying to figure
out how we can position ourselves as a congregation toward a new future.
Taking into consideration all of this as well as God's truth, I've looked out at an
incredible board of people who do deeply love God and are straining forward
together.
Now all these meetings aren't perfect.
There are some heated debates
sometimes and some deep discussions and some feelings
that come out.
But I’ve got to tell you this board does genuinely look at each other
and love each other, and it's been fantastic for me to witness that over the last four
months that we've been here.
Now out of this time, the board has decided that they want to make some things
known to you.
So over the next six weeks we're going to discuss these things
beginning with our mission and values.
As they've been pondering over our history
and the new future that we would love to see together, they have designed for us
a mission and values that I believe are really truly biblical
and are going to lead us into a new season.
Now the relationship between a
board and its congregation is a delicate one, and at times it can be very unsettling
as well.
Obviously this church, as a non-profit organization and also one that falls
underneath the authority of Jesus Christ, believes that what we see in the New
Testament as a structure for an elder board in Timothy and Titus is the design.
Not
only that, but we understand that it is our fiduciary responsibility in this world, in
this state, in this government that we have a relationship with the congregation as
well.
And so in this there's this delicate balance that happens there, where we as
members vote to elect board members that then come together and by the Spirit
of God, under His truth, speak as one voice on behalf of this congregation, and that
we place ourselves underneath their authority including me.
And that we engage
in a relationship of trust with them knowing that we selected them and that they
are designing a path forward into the future.
This catalytic relationship is important
on both sides of the fence.
Number one that we trust them and number two that
they fall underneath the authority and biblical leadership laid out in God's
Word.
And we hope that they're making the very best decisions for this
congregation and for each one of us on behalf of God.
Now that relationship can
feel uncomfortable at times, but today I have to tell you that over the past six weeks
there has been much thought, much prayer, many discussions, that have been very
thoughtful and meaningful, behind the scenes where today
we would like to reveal to you what we believe God's mission is for Ridgewood
church in this place in the coming years.
With that what I'd love to have you do is to turn to Matthew 28 this morning.
Matthew 28 beginning in verse 18, I'll read there through the end of the chapter.
And to set this context up while you're turning your bibles there and taking a look
at the text, we have to know that this is the very end of Jesus's life and there's
nothing more important than last words.
We hang on them
for dear life.
Those last words that someone will speak to us sometimes are the
most important words, and I believe that because this is Jesus Christ saying these
words knowing that He's departing from us, that they're probably some of the most
important words that Jesus Christ will ever say.
For many of you these will be very
familiar but I want to take a fresh look at them this morning.
It says this:
"And Jesus came and said to them all authority in heaven and on earth has been
given to Me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the
name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that
I have commanded you and behold I am with you always to the end of the age".
Fantastic words.
These words are so full of so much truth that you can speak them
for literally a month, but we're going to take one Sunday morning to make two very
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