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INTRODUCTION:
I like us to consider this morning,
what should dreams be made of?
Many of us speak about Jim Elliot with great admiration!
Have you ever dreamed how God could use THIS CHURCH in our community?
Many of us speak about Jim Elliot with great admiration!
If you recall the story,
Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Ed McCully, Peter Fleming, and Roger Youderian were missionaries
conducting pioneering efforts to preach the Gospel to an extremely hostile, remote Tribe in the Amazon jungle.
The Tribe had attacked and killed a number of Shell employee’s.
The government and the company was prepared to exterminate the tribe.
However, these friends thought outside the box, using a light weight airplane to reach and talk to this remote tribe, trying use the tribes excitement over gifts to reach the tribe.
But on Jan 8th 1956 all five men were brutally murdered by the tribe.
The Movie, End of the Spear, describes this missionary effort.
Now that sounds like a horrible story,
but in the end - much of the tribe eventually came to know Christ.
This is a missionary story of unconditional love and and desire to give others the Good news of Jesus Christ.
This hostile tribe was transformed by Christ from a murdering tribe, to a peaceful Christ-loving tribe.
Now, what allowed this wonderful missionary story to happen!
Instead of being murderers to those in the area, they become transformed people in Christ.
5 men dreamed about how to reach a tribe everybody else was ready to kill.
that the government was prepared to kill.
Have you ever dreamed at how God could use YOU in this world?
Have you ever dreamed how God could use THIS CHURCH in our community?
I mean,
truly intentionally dreamed about how we could reach our community the Gospel.
To say it another way,
What prevents us from giving the hope of the Gospel to addicts, families breaking up, and those who are terminally ill?
What prevents us from giving the hope of the Gospel to addicts, families breaking up, and those who are terminally ill?
What prevents us from reaching the teen who see’s church as a waste of time or the rancher who is content being a hermit?
What prevents us from helping young children understand Who Jesus is?
whether teaching is seminary in China
or the layman who setups a coffee shop in Burma?
We could say finances,
But don’t we have a giving father who owns all and spoke all into existence.
We could say we don’t have enough people,
and yet Nehemiah built the wall in a nearly miraculous time - 52 days.
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We could say it is to hard,
yet isn’t that exactly what Christ has called us to do?
Take up your cross and follow him.
We could say it is to dangerous,
yet whose hands do we ultimately entrust ourselves too.
What does death actually mean for the believer?
We could say there are no opportunities,
but doesn’t Scripture and the reality of the World teach us the harvest is great, but the workers are few.
So what truly prevents us from accomplishing God’s call for each one of us? - To follow Jesus, proclaiming the Gospel, making followers of him ()
We could blame it on all those challenges,
A failure to dream!
Or we can realize - it is A failure to dream!
A failure to dream and then faithfully serve Christ in that dream,
leaving the provision to him.
It is sad that today, we don’t dream and we don’t serve.
We talk about financial setback in our world,
but a true historian will note that Americans have more pleasure and more money than anyone has ever had since the fall of Rome.
I mean, since the Roman Empire fell in 476 AD - we are the richest society in history.
In comparison to millions of people around the world, of our own generation,
In comparison to millions of people in the past and millions of people in our generation,
could only dream of having the resources to serve Christ like we can.
We live like Kings.
Oh how do we fail to serve Christ with the time and money we has so richly been blessed us with.
Our text this morning,
Whether
Whom do you serve?
Family, Work
Do you want to serve God?
Examples of Missionaries
challenges us with an overview of Paul’s ministry.
Though it is not a commission of the church to give the witness of Christ around the world - it is a model for how Paul accomplished that mandate from God.
CAVEAT:
Now perhaps you are saying,
but I am not an Apostle.
But I think as we understand who Paul is as an Apostle,
We will understand we are called as the church
to do what the Apostle’s were called to establish for the church.
On one hand Apostle is a technical term for a God-ordained leadership position in the early Church.
Transitional people who were called to help believers transition from a Temple based worship - to A Christ Worship.
Yet,
when we compare Biblical principles - they are the leaders in what every believer is called to do.
They established the model that the entire church was called to do in places like or .
From Romans 1:1-7,
PROPOSITION: We ought to serve Jesus Christ
TRANSITION: And this text gives us 4 responsibilities for how we ought to serve Christ.
May we dream what could happen if we dreamed about those 4 responsibilities.
The first responsibility: we ought to be
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Messengers of the Gospel.
The basic title Apostle we see in English is a transliterated title.
In other words, we took the letters in Greek and made the letters in English.
But if you were hearing it in Greek,
the title would be - “messenger”.
In this case, Paul’s a messenger of Jesus Christ with the message of the Gospel.
EXPLANATION:
Now as we look at that text,
your probably wondering why I didn’t start with “servant of Jesus Christ”.
Essentially, expands or parallel’s the meaning that Paul is a servant of Jesus Christ.
In other words,
to say Paul is a servant of Christ is to say he is the messenger of Christ.
So basically, Paul spends the next 6 verses explaining how he is a servant of Christ.
So basically, the
So back to the idea of messenger,
The relationship between messenger and the title we call “apostle” is described .
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