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Party starters and transformers.
Party Started Video
It is great to be back here, it is great to see familar faces.
It is amazing to worship with family and a privalidge to speak to you.
I want to speak on today on our purpose, our purpose as individuals and as a body of belivers, as a church.
Did you know that we are called to be Party Starters and we are called to be Transformers.
For some of you your minds are already thinking ‘I do or I don’t like parties’.
For others you are may have thought of this..
Transormers video
The reality of my statment that you are called to be party starters and transformers is far greater than than what you immediatly thought.
One Event Feedback
Last weekend a number of us were at The One Event, it was a good time with friends, good teaching, great worship and weather that seemed to have been imported from the Middle East.
While we were there we saw some amazing parties started.
Let me give you a few examples of the parties.
This year 269 under 11s made a commitment.
148 11-18’s became followers of Christ.
They don’t annonce the number of Adults but the prayer team was busy.
You know when each of these people made a commitment there is a party in heaven.
Luke 15 tells us
Knowing Jesus personally, making that decission to live with God, rather than against him is such an important event.
I think sometimes we don’t give it the attention that it needs, just noting that Bob or John became a christian.
Story of the girl in Little Cherry & our kids
We move on from it too quickly.
We need to make more of this.
I think we have the British attitude, “Well Done” now lets move on before this becomes a little embaressing - we need to be less british and more Roman.
Disciples not Converts.
You know the Jesus never asked us to go and get converts?
He commissioned each of us to tell the good news and make disciples.
The decission point is the first step , it is a Patry that is strartd but we are commanded as a church to go beyond that.
We are commanded to be Transformers.
God is a good God.
He gives us opportunities for parties throught that tranformation process.
Claire’s story.
This lady 17 years in wheelchair healed last night running walking running upstairs this morning... INCREDIBLE
The landlady at her BandB posted this ...
This lady stays at our B&B during the One Event and always has great difficulty getting up and down the stairs.
But not this morning!
She was literally running up and down them.
Amazing!
I tell you this miracle started parties! - through transformation we are called to be party starers as God steps in and transforms lives, broken relationships, broken bodies.
We start paties through our service, through our prayers and through - most of all - through our love.
Our love for God, for each other and for those in the world.
Who knows it can be hard to love?
Sometimes it is hard to love those we know yet alone people we don’t but love is not just an emotion.
it is a decision, an act of obidience.
When we choose to love we do odd and amazing things.
In my wallet like a few thousand other people is the name of a complete stranger.
All I know about this person is that they once knew God and they are now far from Him.
It is love that get’s me to pray for this individual i do not know, it is love that got someone to write his name on this card.
It is love that I belive will bring him back and it is a Father’s love that will see another party started in heaven and in this persons family.
Love is the driving force behind those words in Matthew.
The words that we know as the great commission.
So what is Jesus asking you and me to do.
We are called to Go and tell
Generally speaking, if you asked people what the purpose of the church was, some might say fellowship.
Fellowship is good, Jesus said that unbelievers will know we are Christians by our love (John 13:35).
And it is love that powers the comission.
Others would say the purpose of the church is preaching and teaching.
We are called to strengthen, edify, build up, people through God’s Word into maturity in Christ.
Due to lack of knowledge, the people perish, Hosea says (Hos. 4:6).
There is truth to this too We all want to grow and the Word is important and central to that happening.
Part of the comission is to teach.
I would propose though that the immediate purpose of the church is get our of the church.
In The Commission we find Jesus giving His disciples (that is you and me) the essential the point of their and our existence.
It can summarized it this way: The church, fueled by Love, the authority and presence of Christ, is called to be God’s vehicle of bringing glory to Him through making disciples of all people, without distinction.
The first act of this is ...
“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations...
Get out of the church.
- we won’t find many
Stop being a secret Christian.
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We are called to make disciples not just converts
Whatever God calls us to, He supplies.
He sends us to stony paths, He will give us strong shoes.
Knowing that we are fueled by His presence and authority (notice the “therefore”), we are called to make disciples.
I love the fact that Matthew talks about Jesus “drawing near” and Jesus talking about His authority, before we hear the command that we are to make disciples of the world!
What a staggering and paralyzing command, unless we knew it was sandwiched between assurances of Christ’s presence and authority!
Notice it does not say, “make converts” or “get people to accept Christ.”
The word “disciple” means above all “learner” or “pupil.”
So the idea here is to “make learners.”
A disciple is not simply one who has been taught but one who continues to learn.
Let’s be clear here.
As soon as you become a Christian, you are His disciple.
But I think it is easy to remain a Christian and not a disciple.
Many people bumble along as token Christians - saved absolutly.
Lovely people - Quite possibly.
Disciples, party strarted, transformers, empowered - absolutly not.
We all need to be disciples.
to let ourselves be transformed.
I can’t Go, I Can’t teach, I can’t Baptise.
Some of us will offer up the comment that I can’t go, or I can’t teach or I can’t Baptise.
There is one main command in these verses and that is “make disciples.”
Three other elements are under this main verb: going, baptising and teaching.
- Making disciples is the primary actions - going, baptising and teaching are ways this may happen.
You can intrepret the comission like this... “As you are going about your life, whether to the co-op or sitting around chatting, you should be making disciples.
As you are going, make disciples.
When you are at work, or college or on vacation make disciples.
In other words, Jesus was not telling us to go be missionaries, in the classical Pith Helmet in the Jungle, but missionaries in our life.
The primary expression of the commission is it should be more of a lifestyle.
Going specifically to do things for God, Teaching and baptising are elements that are important in addition to living out you life authentically and openly.
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