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Open your Bibles to Ephesians 4:11.
We are also starting Ephesians together as a church this week in our readings.
Let me start by giving some context to where we are in our teachings…and then teach from today's verses as an extension to what we learned last week.
We have been studying the Church.
And asking God to show us through His Word what are the foundational components of His Church.
What does He emphasize.
What does He ask of us?
What kind of Church pleases and glorifies Him?
What (or who) is the Biblical Church?
We Americans think of Church much differently than ever before.
We live in a country that tells us that everything is all about us.
So we are very individualistic…we are told over and over that everything is about what we want.
And we are also consumers.
We buy stuff for us and therefore want that stuff to do stuff for us because we bought it.
And that individualism and consumerism spills over and has tarnished the way we culturally think about Church.
And we have talked about a few of these ways.
It even shows in the questions we ask.
How did you like Church?
What did you get out of church?
How was Church for you?
How was that message for you?
Did you like the music?
Even…what application did you get out of that for your life?
And those are not necessarily bad questions all together…but...
Where is God in that way of thinking?
Have you ever asked or wondered after Sunday Worship or a youth gathering...What did God think about that?
How was God worshiped and adored and glorified in that time?
What we clearly see in Scripture is that the Bible teaches us a non-individualistic non-consumer view of the church…it tells us the opposite of those two views.
First Church is not primarily a place to go and get…but a people who gather to give…
Most importantly give all of their heart, mind, soul, time, talent and treasure…in worship to God and give by serving and using the gifts God has given them to build up others for His glory.
And...Church is not a product but a people.
Scripture defines the Church as the people…not the building or the 90 minute event on Sundays…
And not just some of the people…like the pastors and worship leader and the paid staff…like in the business world or a theater or play.
Church - God’s people set apart by God to gather together and live out God’s purpose for them in the particular place God has put them.
And so instead of asking what can I get out of church…the paradigm radically shifts?
How can I best glorify and worship the God who has saved me and called me into His Church?
How can I give all of me in worship to the God who has rescued me from sin and death while I was yet a sinner?
How can I glorify God and enjoy Him as my treasure and proclaim of His excellencies...by the way that I worship Him on Sundays, Wednesdays, and every moment in between with these people who love Him?
And how can become more like Jesus as I am conformed into His image…and as I serve this body…these people of God…sacrificially with the gifts God has given me to use for that very purpose?
Or WE could ask…are we as the church living as God’s set apart people who gather together and live out His purposes for us in the place He has put us or the place He is calling us to be?
Are we coming like Jesus as humble servants before the living God to empty ourselves and be filled with Him to serve those God has put before us?
Are we devoted…fully and passionately…devoted to the Word...to the Apostles teachings?
To fellowship?
To breaking of bread?
Are we devoted to praying together?
Are we perfectly united?
Are we loving one another in a way that causes the world to believe that Jesus is the Messiah?
And are we on mission together…each of us...to make disciples?
Is that our laser focused mission?
Those are the questions we should be asking about the Church?
In the weeks to come we are going to build on these last 3 messages.
We will look at other components that God commands as part of His Church as we build upon the foundations of devotion and unity and mission.
Today I want to expand on last weeks message and bring more intentionally from from our heads…to our hearts…to our hands and feet…and mouths.
Today we are going to see how the:
The Church Trains Disciples who Make Disciples
As a way of reminder:
Last week we said the Church is on a Mission.
Specifically to:
The primary mission of the Church is to make disciples…and we do that by:
1. Going
2. Baptizing
3. Teaching
Let’s look at each of those parts and see how we can simply and practically and powerfully do them…to make disciples.
First some definitions:
I know some of you like simple so I am going to make these as simple as possible.
Evangelism - speaking the gospel to the lost in hopes of them being saved through repentance of sin and faith in Jesus as their Savior and Lord.
So unsaved to saved because of the gospel from your mouth to their ears…is evangelism.
This is the Go!
Go and make disciples.
And make disciples very specifically by telling them the gospel.
Take your beautiful feet and go…proclaim the gospel you have been given…the one that saves.
Do you ever wonder about God’s will for you?
If you have been saved by the gospel…and you know the gospel…and you are alive…and you are ever around an unbeliever or a nominal Christian…and you ever wonder what is God’s will for my life…we can answer that question.
Go and make disciples by speaking the gospel.
The Church is on a Mission to Make disciples…which starts with the gospel.
I think sometimes we try to start with discipleship…or some other means or a program.
And hope somewhere along the way the gospel gets said or heard.
Go with the gospel....the power of God for salvation…and proclaim it…tell it…teach it…explain it…defend it...to make disciples.
Evangelism - speaking the gospel to the lost in hopes of them being saved through repentance of sin and faith in Jesus as their Savior and Lord.
Definition #2.
Discipleship - Teaching others through the Word and fellowship to love, follow, and obey Christ as we are being conformed into His image.
This is step 3 of the mission.
Go make disciples, baptise them, and then teach them to obey all Christ has commanded…disciple them.
Definition #3
Ministry = making disciples by going, baptizing, and teaching:
- into the place God has put you
- to do the work God has put before you
- to bless the people God has put around you
- with the gospel that saved you
- and the blessings He has given you
- by the power He has promised you.
Ministry is evangelism and discipleship.
And so here is the key to today's message…this is where some of us may need to renew our minds.
Who does the work of ministry?
Who does evangelism and discipleship?
Who speaks the gospel that brings salvation to the lost?
Who teaches and lives life with disciples of Jesus to help them to love Him and obey Him and be conformed into His image?
Who makes disciples by going, baptizing, and teaching?
Who does the work of ministry?
The Church!
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