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Big idea: When you exchange mad for mission, you give thanks.
Missions Video:
Start with North Korea Video.
Good morning church family.
Glad to see you!
Today we are having what’s called Missions Sunday.
What that means is, this Sunday, we’re going to talk a little bit about the work God is doing around the world to expand His Kingdom .
Bringing salvation to people through the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Not just here in Glastonbury, but in every country.
Like what we watched in the video.
At The River Church, we have a 3-part mission (vision is what God is calling us to; mission is how we get there): Know, Grow, and Go.
We believe it is our mission to know God, grow together, and go into the world with the gospel.
And Missions Sunday is all about that third part - the “Go.”
And while our primary mission involves “going” into all of Glastonbury to bring the gospel to our community, we also believe God wants us to be involved with His global mission.
And an easy, but powerful way we can do that is through prayer.
Prayer is powerful, amen?
And so, the organization that produced the short film we watched also put together a few slides on how we can pray for God’s work in the world - specifically for the persecuted church.
Let’s look at those...
Go through each prayer request - Each prayer request has 2 slides (text and pictures).
And so these prayer cards are connected to these prayer requests.
So be praying for our brothers and sisters around the world.
Keep this in a place where you’ll be reminded to pray for them.
Again, it’s an easy but extremely powerful way for our church to participate in God’s global mission.
We’re a church on-mission:
Here at TRC, we want to be about God’s mission.
We value it.
It’s said that you can tell what people truly value by their check book.
I wanted to share with you that in 2019 our little church plant has already given $7,102.72 to missions.
This includes $3,500 given to the Cooperative Program.
CP is a designated type of giving that the churches in our network collectively give to because we believe we can do more together.
For example, in New England, our Cooperative Giving goes to help these missionaries in Scotland.
We may not have missionaries of our own yet, but a portion of our giving goes to support this family.
The remainder of that $7,000 has gone to other missions: four local church planting ministries and also helping two short-term missions trip, including Kyrie.
We helped send her to Croatia to be a part of a team that was discipling youth and young pastors.
In fact, let me read a letter that she wrote to us...
Read Kyrie’s letter...
We’re also talking about missions today because it’s connected to this morning’s message in our “Give Thanks” series.
Intro:
Two weeks ago, we started a brand-new series called “Give Thanks.”
With Thanksgiving approaching, we thought it would be good for our church to focus on being thankful.
Furthermore, we’re reminded of what the apostle Paul said...
That means that even when it’s not Thanksgiving, it is God’s will for us to be thankful!
... It’s God’s will!
...That means it’s important for us to do this!
However, the truth is it’s hard to ALWAYS be thankful in the world we live in.
at the same time, I believe God’s word give us instructions on how to do this well, even when it’s hard.
So that’s what we’re spending the next couple of weeks doing.
Last week, we talked about how to give thanks, even when we have a million things to worry about.
If you missed that message, the live-stream is still available on Facebook; or, you can visit our website and watch the YouTube version.
This week, we’re going to look out how to give thanks, even when we live in an unthankful culture and surrounded by people we don’t even like!
The title today’s message is, “You mad, bro?”
Exegesis:
You know, Jesus lived in a culture like we just described.
A time and place where it would be hard to give thanks.
He was surrounded by people who didn’t see eye-to-eye with Him.
Heck, they didn’t even like Him.
Who here has looked around your neighborhood, workplace, social media feed?
“Man, I don’t even know if I have anything in common with these people.
I don’t even know if they like me!”
And in those circumstances, it’s an easy jump to, “Well, if they don’t like me!
I don’t like them!” It’s not the most mature attitude, but when we’re honest, it’s probably pretty common.
And if that’s our mindset toward the people in our lives, it’s gonna be pretty dang hard to “give thanks always.”
It’s like being trapped in a toxic bubble.
Warning to the Church:
Before we move on, I feel like I need to give this warning to us as the church...
Yes, we live at a time when it’s not easy to be a Christian.
We’re not the most liked people in our culture.
It’s a time when our society is moving away from biblical values, so our Christian values seem foreign.
It’s no wonder people disagree or oppose us.
But here’s where I’d like to issue the warning to us...
With that in mind… consider this...
Part of our current culture involves a high-level of customization.
What I mean by that is technology has given us the ability to customize our lives due to the plethora of options available to us.
We don’t like the perspective the news gives us?
I have 100 other options.
I don’t like the perspective of this person on my social media feed?
I’ll just block, unfriend, or unfollow them.
Here’s my point: As Christians, we have to be careful that we don’t let this “customization” keep us from reaching our culture.
Because the danger we face is customizing everything we don’t like out of our lives to the point where we no longer know how to interact (let alone - LOVE) people we don’t agree with.
And we’ll find ourselves cutoff from our neighbors, mad at them from a distance, and maybe unintentionally killing our ability to be thankful - it’s hard to be mad and thankful at the same time.
That’s not God’s will.
And it’s definitely not part of God’s mission.
So what do we do?
Well, like everything in our lives, we look to Jesus for answers!
How did Jesus react?:
Guess what?
… Jesus didn’t live in a Christian culture.
He lived in a society that He had nothing in common with when it came to perspective and values.
But what did he do?
Did he get mad and keep them at a distance?
If you have your Bible/app, turn to .
is an interesting chapter.
It starts off with John the Baptist sending a delegation to Jesus to asking, “Hey, are You really the Savior, because we’re starting to doubt it.”
This is crazy because the Bible tells us that John was the prophet God sent before Jesus to tell the world, “Prepare yourself for the King, for the Savior, because He’s coming!”
So when this happened, imagine how Jesus felt.
I think He would’ve been like, “What the heck?!? Dude, I thought we were on the same team!
What do you mean am I the Savior?
Tell John all of these things are happening - things only the Savior could do!”
Then Jesus describes the culture surrounding Him as one that was always negative, always nit-picking, always criticizing!
Even more, He compares them to one of the most wicked cities in Scriptures and says, “You’re worst than them!”
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