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Good morning, Gateway Chapel!
Scripture: Psalm 100:1-4
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Say intro to Michael Eash and the Ray family.
Intro
Ten years ago, our culture was forever changed by one word: YOLO.
YOLO stands for you “You Only Live Once!”
As in, “Going to Hawaii this summer, YOLO!” or “Let’s eat at at Applebees, YOLO!”
There was YOLO, and there was also FOMO.
Maybe you’re like “I don’t see these on the sermon notes.”
Hang in there.
FOMO means Fear of Missing Out.
My dog has FOMO whenever I touch the front door he’s convinced I’m leaving him and going by myself to the dark park.
Or maybe you’ve lied to your kids because if they knew you were going on out to see a movie after they went to bed they’ve had FOMO.
But here’s one you may not hear as much that I think impacts us to a much greater degree: FOBO.
FOBO.
Any guesses?
Fear of Better Options.
I would argue you are hampered by FOBO on a daily basis.
FOBO is not a new thing, but it is increasingly powerful in a world of limitless options.
In the words of former Seahawks Quarterback Russell Wilson, we wanna be UNLIMITED (look it up it’s horrible)…but at the same time it can create FOBO.
For example...What are you going to do this afternoon?
Maybe you’ve already decided.
Maybe you’re pumped to just rest on the couch.
Come on!
But what if you start talking with someone and they say, “Yeah this afternoon we’re hiking Mt Peak and we’re training to hike some bigger mountains!”
Your anxiety spikes and that’s the power of FOBO! Sitting on the couch was a good option for how to spend my time, but is it the best option?
Think about FOBO and big decisions like buying a house.
When we started the home buying process, and we put an offer in on a house in Auburn.
It was nice!
It was in our price range.
It had a sauna in the dining room.
Not on our list, but whatever!
We put the offer in and we thought…what if there are better options out there?
Stressful FOBO!
Every purchase has a multitude of options…at Fred Meyer you chose those pretzels but why not the other two dozen options?
Chris told you Dots Pretzels are the best, but what if you just wasted $5 and could’ve gotten two bags of Snyders pretzels.
FOBO!
But it gets more serious, right?
How’s your job?
The economy is still decent enough that you could leave and find other work.
My generation was told we could be anything we want to be…find your passion and you’ll never work a day in your life!
What if there is a better option?
Friends.
You love your friends.
But…are there other friends out there?
Maybe your coworker...
Church.
There are so many churches.
Gateway is great…but you haven’t really looked around…what if there’s a better one?
Christian and non-Christian...What do you want to do with your life?
Make a choice and you’re saying no to many others.
FOBO.
It affects us as a church, as well.
Think about all the things we could be doing.
We could be focusing on serving the homeless…we could be focusing on serving like going to the Food Bank.
We could be focusing on evangelism and going to people who don’t know Jesus.
We could be sending more money to missions to help connect with unreached people groups…there is no shortage of things we could be doing right now.
How do we decide?
No more YOLO, no more FOMO…FOBO…how do we decide what to do as a church?
How do you decide how to focus your time as a Christian?
Here at Gateway Chapel, we we want to be about planting churches and making disciples who hear, love, and obey Jesus.
Last week we focused on church (the people of God who worship God because they’ve received the mercy of God), and this week we’re asking, why make disciples?
Let’s kick FOBO to the side and make our choice together.
We’re going to look at Matthew 28:16-20 today, and in Matthew 28:16-20, Matthew wraps up his gospel with the story of the resurrected Jesus telling his disciples: go make more disciples.
I want to offer four reasons why making disciples is the best thing for us to do.
Four reasons.
Pray
We’re starting a four week sermon series called, “Why Church?” to help us clarify who we are and why we do what we do as a church.
The context in which we live is increasingly uninterested in and opposed to the local church.
Why are we so glad to be a part of the local church?
Why do we do the things we do, why is making disciples our mission, why do we do baptism and communion, why do we have church membership?
We’ll look at those things in the coming weeks.
But today we’re talking about making disciples, looking at Matthew 28:16-20, as Annika read.
Our text is at the very end of Matthew, and Matthew is all about Jesus being the one who fulfills the ancient promises of God to come save his people.
Jesus is the Son of God, and through his death and resurrection, he is bringing inviting others to be sons and daughters of God not through nationality but through faith in him.
Jesus is the main character of Matthew, and so are the disciples.
What is a disciple?
The disciples are 12 guys that Jesus calls to follow him and learn from his teachings.
Jesus is a Rabbi, a teacher of the Jewish Scriptures, and the disciples are to be with Jesus, learn from his teachings, and call others to do the same.
We see as much when Jesus calls the first disciples, Peter and Andrew.
Jesus is making disciples who will make disciples.
And so the first reason that making disciples is the best thing for us to do is...
Jesus came
Matthew 28:16–18 (ESV)
16 Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them.
17 And when they saw him they worshiped him, but some doubted.
18 And Jesus came....
What’s the big event in the story which isn’t mentioned here?
The resurrection!
The single most important event in world history just happened.
Jesus was murdered by the Jewish religious leaders because they did not believe he was the promised Messiah as he claimed.
The disciples, who had been with Jesus, believed that Jesus was the Messiah, shared the last three years of their lives with him…abandoned him.
Peter denied knowing him.
And Matthew says there are eleven disciples and not twelve.
Why? Judas betrayed Jesus for an amount of money that couldn’t get you out the door at Costco.
The majesty of the resurrection!
The power of new life in Jesus!
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