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UPDATES ON THE CHURCH: It’s no secret that this has been a challenging year at Catalyst Church.
We have lost two pastors and our worship team, something that would be challenging for any church.
It has been quite a learning curve for me as your pastor, and for our church.
This is not the first challenging time for Catalyst, as I’m sure it’s not the first time for Paradise Hills SBC either.
For Catalyst, we have lost key leaders before, but God always provided.
And the church has had to relaunch before, which is something that I believe we are in the middle of now.
Because of COVID, this community is just now starting to get to know our church.
And I want you to know, if you call this your home church, this is your church.
It’s not my church.
It’s Jesus’ church, first and foremost, but it is also our job together to have ownership over how we move forward as a church, under the Lord’s leadership.
Your bulletins look a little different today, and I want you to take a look at something on the inside.
On the left side, under Catalyst Church San Diego, it says: “Reaching People for God’s Family.”
Under that, we have a new mission and vision statement: “We seek to glorify God by reaching people for his family and leading them to grow as a disciple of Jesus.
We want to see our community, city, and world changed by the gospel.
Matthew 28:18-20; Romans 1:16”
There is a purpose behind this statement.
We still believe that church is a family that you belong to.
We still believe that church is a family, and we are all brothers and sisters in Christ.
But every church will always be inward-focused.
Why?
Because we want to know those around us and we get comfortable in our surroundings.
But if we only focus on the people in here, we will lose our focus on the people out there who need Jesus.
A church that only focuses inwardly will die.
We need to focus outward.
We are happy that we are in God’s family.
And we want other people to know Jesus, to be adopted into God’s family, to be sons and daughters of God.
That’s why as a church, we are reaching people for God’s family.
How do we do that?
We need to be a part of the larger community.
Just like Jesus took on flesh and dwelt among us, we need to know and be with the people here.
We are making our first attempt at a block party to start connecting with the community.
It won’t be perfect, and there will be things to learn, but we are learning.
We are teaming up with Outreach.com.
Every person who moves within a 1-mile radius of our building will receive a couple of postcards inviting them to our church.
I’m getting to know some of the businesses around here, and was able to meet the principal of Paradise Hills Elementary recently.
There will be more updates at our upcoming business meeting, but I wanted you to know that I’m excited about where we are headed as a church, reaching people for God’s family.
By God’s grace, we are making progress to be a light to this community and reach people for Jesus.
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CPT: Paul combated the fear of drowning by trusting in God’s protection.
Purpose: To encourage the church to trust in God’s guidance during a period of transition.
CPS: Christians can combat fear in a storm by trusting in God’s guidance.
Introduction
Fear comes out when we are in the middle of a hard time.
Fear comes out when we sense there is danger around us.
Fear can be paralyzing and can grip you into making decisions that you wouldn’t normally make.
Fear can drive us to make rash decisions that ultimately we regret later on.
They can be life-altering decisions.
In preaching class one day, someone raised their hand and complained to the teacher, saying, “It’s not fair, he has all of these police stories!”
I said, “I don’t know, join the police department?”
Here is another police story.
We received a 911 call of a woman crying hysterically in the middle of the street.
We answered the radio call and found the woman.
She was a tall, young woman (although everyone to me is tall) and she was crying hysterically, like from a pain deep within her.
I asked her, “What’s wrong?
How can we help you?”
She said that she was crying because her boyfriend was supposed to bring the money, but he never showed up.
“I thought, she’s crying like this for money?”
She then said, “He was supposed to pay for the abortion, but never came.”
Her words were saying one thing, but her crying, her emotions, they weren’t like someone who lost some money.
Her tears came from someone in mourning.
I praise God that unborn lives in the womb will be saved from the recent Roe vs Wade decision.
I celebrate that.
But the end goal of Christianity is not to win at politics.
Christ did not come to save the Supreme Court.
He came to save the world.
Our churches should not look like people who have got it all figured out.
We only have one chance to reach the hurt, the broken, the lost.
There won’t be lost people in heaven.
It’s here that we get to reach the broken and the lost.
It’s here that we get to see those dead in their sins come to life in Jesus.
Our churches should look more like a hospital, a place for healing and restoration.
See, like other hurtful decisions made in the middle of a hard time, abortion is a fear-based decision.
It is a fear that I won’t be able to support this child.
It is a fear that this child will remind me every day of the person who hurt me.
It is a fear that things will be too tough, that you won’t make it out.
When you are in the middle of a storm in life, anyone can make a fear-based decision.
The Bible says that we don’t have to fear.
When we are in the middle of a difficult time, how do we fight fear?
We will be in Acts 27.
In this chapter, it’s decided that Paul is to go to Rome for trial.
So he is sent on a boat along with other prisoners and a centurion.
They start heading towards Rome, and soon enough they start to hit some rough waters.
A wind is blowing against the boat, making it difficult to steer.
Let’s pick up in verse 9.
They go through some more difficulty, but eventually all of them arrive safely on the shore.
Pray
What does this story tell us about fighting fear in a storm?
I believe there are three things that we pick up in this story about how to fight fear in a storm.
First,
We can fight fear in a storm by prayer and being sensitive to the Spirit’s guidance.
State the point; Anchor the point; Validate the point; Explain the point
Text: Acts 27:9-10; Heb.
4:14-16
Paul spent time fasting and was able to see the danger ahead.
We must focus our minds and hearts on God and listen to the Spirit’s guidance.
When the world goes the opposite way, we need to tune out the noise around us and listen to God’s Spirit in our lives.
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By the time we get to verse 9 in Acts 27, Paul is already in a dangerous situation.
Verse 8 says that the trip was getting more and more dangerous.
Within all of the danger of this trip, Paul has just gone through a period of prayer, repentance, and fasting.
You say, “How do you know that?”
It notes in verse 9 that the Day of Atonement was over.
Why is that important?
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