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Grab your bibles and turn to
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Grab your bibles and turn to
PRAYER
I think it’s fitting on the last Sunday in our Larger Than Life series to walk through Jesus vision of the church.
and how the early church saw themselves.
Now if you have been here awhile, you will have heard this—but as we all know vision leaks.
We just naturally get into patterns and side missions, and continually need to re-orient ourselves to the words and mission of Jesus.
And of course it is not my vision in reality it is the church as Christ proclaimed it to be that I would like relate to you this morning,
And if you are just checking out the church, than this will be good for you to listen in.
If you are a Christ-follower and have possibly been a church-goer for a long time, perhaps I can take this opportunity to widen your perspective of what church is.
What we have been driving home is that the church is not a building .
I’m not sure what you think of when you hear the word church.
Jesus never once thought of His church as a building of people meeting together.
It always dangerous when we us words without knowing their meaning.
My wife is very good at challenging me on the kinds of language I use from the pulpit.
- saying” What do you mean when you use that?’
See I grew up in church singing a Mighty Fortress is Our God a bulwark never failing”
You know a bulwark?
What is a mighty a mighty throng anyway?
Words are important, and if we don’t know the meaning of the words we use we can fail to grasp meaning.
(MAD GAB)
Earlier this week the leaders of the Port were playing Mad Gab.
If you’ve never played mad gab here is how it works-
One team looks at cards that look like this and try to guess what the card is trying to say.
(MAD GAB#2)
These words put together and make no sense.
But the game works best when we all speak with confidence what we see before us, until it starts to make sense.
And it is at that point you start to get the most enjoyment out of the game.
At times, what happens in the game is that someone will say so clearly what the answer is, but have not idea that they’ve done it, and continue to look with a blank face.
A few points during our game, we flipped cards for the other team because they said the words so clearly they must know what it is says; only to find out that Jon was actually saying the
The Towel-less Cowboys
Sometimes they will say it with such conviction that
The Dallas Cowboys
The Dallas Cowboys
He said it with what appeared to be conviction, I assumed that we were all on the same page and tried to move on.
So here is the danger in church.
Often we can use the same words when we say church- sounds right, almost always seems to work contextually in conversation.
But if we press pause, we begin to see that we use the word church in a way that would have made absolutely no sense to first century believers.
And can cause frustration in the church if we are thinking 32 or 3 different things when we say church.
We go to church on Sunday’s
At the church
At my church
The word that we use for church does not come the New Testament.
In fact it comes from the German “kirche” which actually means the “Lord's house”.
And it is not even need to be the Lord that we worship.
It can simply mean Lord lower-case L.
It means the place a geographical location where worship takes place and finds its roots more in the old testament idea of Temple worship than it does with what Jesus established among his followers.
So ultimately our idea of church often revolves around the idea of a building or a time.
but whenever you read the word church in the New Testament you never see a word that refers to a building.
A piece of real estate.
A geographical location.
What you will see in the Greek is the word ecclesia which means a gathering, a group, a community with common purpose
And I don't think that that is just worthy of a footnote.
I think that is an important thing to keep in mind.
Because I think we can get very attached to a building.
We can set aside a building in our mind that we come to once a week or possibly 2 or 3 times a week and consider it the church.
But First century believers would not have a concept anywhere close to that.
And I think our theology can get pretty confused when we see the church as a building.
We can be confined in our thinking, and definitely in our ministries, our worship, our evangelism.
And I think we can glean some important characteristics of what ecclesia, of what our church ought to look like and what my vision is for The Port.
In order to do that...
We need understand that the 1st century church understood itself as a movement.
And as a wise man once said movements moves.
No one pays to see a huddle.
There was no concept of taking your faith and huddling together quietly.
Move!
Please stand out of respect for God’s word.
18And 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.”
First of all, no one has more right to have authority over your life than Jesus does.
There is no argument that anyone can come up with to commission and frame your behavior that is not trumped by Jesus--who died and rose again and has all authority on earth and heaven.
And in his authority, in his power what has he asked the disciples and you and I to do?
Go into the world and make disciples, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them all that I have taught you.
Movements move---->go into all the world
Luke restates this in Acts Chapter 1 verse 8
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
V. 8
Loosely translated, Jesus is saying--Reach your community--reach the surrounding community, reach those you can't stand, and keep going.
Now, what’s interesting is that we can get in the mindset of thinking that we need to send missionaries out and we’ve done our part!!
As if your neighbour doesn’t need Jesus!
And Jon walked us through some stuff last week to challenge us in that area
Movements move!
So let’s take a look at what this kind of church, this kind of moving, ecclesia, carrying out the great commision looks like, and hone in on a few characteristics.
The church is the ........
We are going to look at the birth of a church.
And then I would like to pull 3 characteristics of the early church which I think are more than simply describing a story, but are actually meant to inform us of how church ought to look.
It’s about 50AD and Paul is on what scholars call his second missionary journey.
He is going back to visit churches that he has already planted with a guy named Barnabas, and he is going back to visit them as well as to plant some new ones (because movements move!!)
And so He sets out with a guy named Silas, and they hook up with Timothy to the north and they are on their way.
About half way through their trip, that probably took them about 2.5 years of “planes, trains, and automobiles” and some shady Super 8 motels, they come to a town called Troas.
While they are in Troas Paul has a vision.
A vision of a man in Macedonia, (a few days boat ride away from where Paul was) to come to Macedonia and help them (v.9)
Immediately, it says!! V10
At once!!
There is an urgency here that I don’t think we are overly familiar with.
“concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them!” (v10)
Notice that Paul’s conclusion is not that Macedonia needs programs, positive influence, needs a helping hand.
They don’t need a building built so that people will come to them.
That might come someday, but right now immediately...
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