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Remodels & Additions
You’ve seen those tv shows where they take old houses and completely redo them?
I googled the top 5:
Fixer Upper: Chip & Joanna Gaines, Waco, TX; finding old houses, diamonds in the rough.
Some relationship drama.
Good family show.
Good couple.
Hidden Potential: They specialize in computer designs of what an old house can become.
The bones of the house.
Extreme Makeover Home Edition: “Move that Bus!” Specialize in finding families doing good things w/ special needs.
Tear the whole house down and start over.
Property Brothers: Jonathan & Drew Scott helping couples find, buy, and transform a fixer upper into a dream home.
Maybe more popular b/c Drew was on a recent season of Dancing w/ the Stars.
This Old House: Just the fundamentals.
No drama.
Techniques, explaining what they’re doing as they go.
Inspiring creativity in their viewers.
Taking an old house, remodeling, adding to, and a finished product that any home-owner would be proud to own.
Sara and I have done some extensive remodel work in two of the houses we’ve owned.
Here, we knocked down a wall, opened things up.
Created more of an open feel when you walk in.
Indiana.
We knocked out an exterior wall and opened up a very important area of house.
Can you guess what area we opened up in both houses?
The Indiana house we also finished the basement into one big play room.
Why?
Why did we do these projects the way we did them?
Creating space for Sara to cook is a big part of it, but not the ultimate plan.
These remodels all helped us create space where we could entertain and encourage people to get to know Jesus better.
Kitchen/living area; game room in the basement; they all were good for our family, fun, we enjoyed the space.
And, in the case of the Indiana house it helped us sell it quickly.
These are all important, but secondary.
Not the primary reason we spent the money, had the discussions, and did the work.
Many of you have seen our house (a lot of our entertaining has been put on hold until we re-launch our kids).
There’s another house we’re all familiar w/ that is being built.
It’s old.
Some of the house is well-built and long lasting, other parts, not so much.
But the house keeps growing.
It is the project that will never end.
This is the story of His old house
There’s relational drama.
But God sticks to the fundamentals.
Anyway, back to the other old house we’re all familiar w/ that is being added to and redone all the time.
2000 years old.
Conceived and established in a.d.
33.
The Church.
This is God’s house.
Where God, literally, resides.
NT, the ppl who believe are the temple and God resides inside us.
Still under construction today.
That’s us.
But, it’s many more than us.
Some areas are being remodeled, some are being added on to.
The Church.
God is building the church and He’s using us to do it.
What God is doing in your life is a great experience and really important to you.
You are important enough to God for Him to send His son to die for you.
Just like when Sara and I remodeled our houses.
It was of great benefit to us and our kids but we weren’t the highest priority.
But, whatever God is doing in your life is not intended to be just about you.
God is giving you a story to tell that will encourage your friends and family to know Jesus better.
He’s building the church, deeper in faith and greater in number, by doing great things in your life so you can talk about them.
This is the story that begins in the book of Acts.
For the summer we’ll be studying thru Acts and see how God is building what He promised to build and how He’s using us to do it.
First, though, the conception.
The first time the concept of the church was introduced it was when Jesus affirmed to Peter that it would be built on faith.
They had just come out of the temple and synagogue system of Judaism.
Now it’s time for something completely different.
Here’s where it was first conceived: .
Conception
Matthew
Do you know?
The people may not know who Jesus is, but we do.
They may know about Jesus, they may know part of the story, but they don’t know all of His story.
We do.
Faith.
Faith that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of the living God.
This is the rock.
The foundation upon which the church is built.
All based on what we believe not what we do.
However, what we do is based on what we believe.
People or place?
When I say “church” what do you think of?
Building?
That’s not what Jesus meant when He used the word.
Greek word: “Ekklesia” means a group or gathering of people who share the same purpose.
Common goals.
Like minded people.
Not unique to Jesus.
Common word in the c.1.
Not a religious term.
A gathering of ppl called together for a specific purpose.
People who got together to build a park.
Political movement.
Citizens gathering for civic purposes.
Political conventions.
Soldiers gathering for military purposes.
There had to be a meeting place, but it would change.
It didn’t matter.
The emphasis was the people and the purpose, not the place.
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