Sermon Tone Analysis

A Home Base for Every Moment |

Me: If you weren’t here last week and haven’t heard yet, let me cut through any suspense… Mosaic @ WDW will be moving December 1st to a semi-permanent facility not too far away from here!

It is currently being renovated to meet our needs as well as looking shiny and new for when we move in!

Me: If you weren’t here last week and haven’t heard yet, let me cut through any suspense… Mosaic @ WDW will be moving December 1st to a semi-permanent facility not too far away from here!

It is currently being renovated to meet our needs as well as looking shiny and new for when we move in!

Tonight I am excited to unpack what we are believing God will do through this community in our new space that we will get to call our home base.

Tonight I am excited to unpack what we are believing God will do through this community in our new space that we will get to call our home base.

But to do that well I think we need to be on the same page with what we understand the church to be.

But to do that well I think we need to be on the same page with what we understand the church to be.

In this room we probably have experienced a mixed bag of what the church can be like.

Some have experienced rich learning and relational depth within the church, and some of you may have experienced have had experienced that have left you skeptical and untrusting.

We all grew up and had different experiences with the organized church.

Maybe yours was from a distance or your parents were super involved in your local church.

Perhaps you saw the drama and church politics that can far too often unfold and it left you skeptical and untrusting.

I don’t blame you.

I was raised in the church as well, and unfortunately I saw the brokenness of those who represent Jesus.

I saw them respond in ways that were less than loving and understanding.

But the most amazing thing happened when I was 19, despite my frustrations with God’s people, I met Jesus and surrendered my life to Him, and He made a way for me to be adopted into the family of God.

I belonged.

He gave me a purpose and began to transform my heart through His Holy Spirit.

I don’t blame you.

I was raised in the church as well, and unfortunately I saw the brokenness of those who represent Jesus.

I saw them respond to conflict with zero love or grace.

But the most amazing thing happened when I was 19, despite my frustrations with God’s people, I met Jesus and surrendered my life to Him, and He made a way for me to be adopted into the family of God.

I belonged.

He gave me a purpose and began to transform my heart through His Holy Spirit.

The difficulty for me though was while I was tempted to give up on the church, Jesus wasn’t.

The difficulty for me though was while I was ready in many ways to give up on the church, Jesus wasn’t.

In fact, He explained throughout the Gospels that the local and global church would be His plan A for redeeming Every Moment in spaces across the globe.

He never gave us a plan B.

In fact, He explained throughout the Gospels that the church would be His plan A for bringing light into spaces of darkness across the globe.

He never gave us a plan B.

He said that the world would know we are His Followers by our LOVE for ONE ANOTHER.

You: What is your story?

If you are a Follower of Jesus what part do you believe God has for you within the story He is telling through the Church?

In my life I have seen Jesus use me despite my faults.

You: What is your story?

If you are a Follower of Jesus what part do you believe God has for you within the story He is telling through the Church?

In the same way, Jesus continues to use the Church despite it’s faults.

Maybe you are here for the first time and this is like the last chance you are giving God with the church, and you might be believing it would be better and easier to live out your faith on your own.

Without the frustrations of Christians.

Why didn’t Jesus know how much we would muddy it up through the generations?

In , Jesus says that HE will build His church, and we discover in this perfect moment when His church stands unblemished dressed in white like a bride before Jesus!

Yet, in , Jesus says that HE will build His church, and we discover in Revelation this perfect moment when His church stands unblemished dressed in white like a bride before Jesus!

How many of you have ever been to a wedding and found it boring when the bride began her journey down the aisle?

Never right?

The bride is stunning, 10/10.

And that moment is special.

Hence why you usually look at the groom and see a face like this!!

How many of you have ever been to a wedding and thought the bride was like a 6 out of 10? NEVER RIGHT?!?!!

The bride is stunning!

Hence why you usually look at the groom and see a face like this!!

This future is going to be realized despite the ebb and flow of cultures response to the church.

This means our commitment to being the church is a call worth living in because the future is bright regardless of how bleak the present may appear.

So, we have this new space over at IPC, sweet.

What would it look like to use this space to be the church and to be redemptive in every moment as the church, using this new space as a tool?

If you ever end up in a conversation about the future of the church, is it losing ground, is it irrelevant… This is the future!

Unblemished.

Made clean by the work of Jesus on the Cross and the Spirit of God drawing us near to Him in every moment!

Main Idea: The Church was meant to be a Home Base to Redeem Every Moment

Main Idea: The Church was meant to be a Home Base to Redeem Every Moment

God: Go ahead and flip in your bibles to

God: Go ahead and flip in your bibles to

Let me show you what this looked like in the earliest example of the early New Testament Church as they engaged in THEIR first meetings space to gather together.

Right after Jesus left, the Early Church did not immediately go out on some epic quest.

They drew near one another in complete dependence waiting until the Holy Spirit was sent to empower them to love God and love people in ways they could have never imagined before!

Vs 42 – Here we see that this fledgling Biblical Community was gathering together to have worship gatherings.

Then the Spirit came, and they were all of a sudden emboldened in insane ways!

Peter, who months early denied knowing Jesus to a child out of fear, stood boldly in front of the same people who persecuted Jesus and shared the Gospel without hesitation.

3,000 people responded to the Gospel.

But what did this new church look like?

What was this biblical community about?

Jesus had told His disciples to go and teach them what He taught them.

Now we see they immediately started doing that!

Teaching about their adoption into the family of God through Jesus, and how they were called to live in light of that reality!

Vs 42 – Jesus had told His disciples to go and teach them what He taught them.

Now we see they immediately started doing that!

Teaching about the nature of God, how to endure through suffering, how to forgive the unforgivable, what it meant to surrender their lives to Jesus and pick up their crosses to follow Him!

They were devoted to fellowship, they didn’t just come to church and bounce, they saw this as a space to build rich relationships.

They even Entered into Spiritual Disciplines and reflections, like communion and prayer.

They were devoted to fellowship, coming together as a community and doing life together.

Entering into Spiritual Disciplines and reflections, like communion and prayer.

I love the word that is used to describe how they did it though, and they reluctantly gave themselves, and they out of being guilted by their friends or out of fear of disappointing their families… No they DEVOTED themselves.

I love the word that is used to describe how they did it though, and they reluctantly gave themselves, and they out of being guilted by their friends or out of fear of disappointing their families… No they DEVOTED themselves.

If you have ever been excited as you entered into a new relationship, gotten a new puppy, or perhaps even got a new kitten you probably have an idea of what devotion feels like.

If you have ever been excited as you entered into a new relationship, gotten a new puppy, or perhaps even got a new kitten you probably have an idea of what devotion feels like.

Nobody has to force you.

You cant wait!

There is excitement and longing to experience that relationship.

This was the early church.

Nobody has to force you.

You cant wait!

There is excitement and longing to experience that relationship.

This was the early church.

I have been so blessed by this kind of community with our Sunday Evening Gatherings over the years, I have learned through teaching, fellowship and challenged toward Spiritual Disciplines on how to live as part of God’s family.

Vs 43 – What did they experience?

Incredible signs and wonders!

The Spirit of God was moving in powerful ways in this community.

People were experiencing physical, spiritual, and relational healings.

People were being encouraged and receiving life from one another.