series: mission
title: Detroit
teacher: Jacob Bender
date: October 28, 2018
scriptures: Galatians 6:9, Ephesians 2:10, 2 Corinthians 5:18-19, Genesis 31, Matthew 5:23-24, Matthew 6:5-15, Luke 19:1-10, 1 Corinthians 11:26.
There is a big difference between vision and mission. Both are important, but Jesus gave us a MISSION, not a vision. The Holy Spirit may put vision in our hearts, and that matters, but every Christian who ever lived has been given the same mission: to make disciples of all men… to reconcile people back into the loving arms of their creator.
This message will not tell you where we are going, but it will show you how we will get there.
Reconciliation is the ministry that the church has been given. We exist to do that. And it is fascinating when you study the Bible, especially the words and stories of Jesus, how obvious it is that Jesus wants us to see how pointless our religion, our rituals, our sacraments, even our praise and our offerings and our sacrifices are, if we are not doing the job of reconciling with people.
NOTE: in this sermon, I referred to “the meal covenant” and I mis-spoke saying that “the Bible calls it a meal covenant” - when in fact, it is what is “known as a meal covenant” but the Bible does not specifically refer to it using that term.
Pastor Chilly Chilton, the founding Pastor of Courage Church, joined us for one last sermon before he leaves to go and plant Revolution Youth Ministry in Burlington, VT.
When we sow into the Kingdom of God, we do it not for what we will get in return, but because of the eternal value of the impact that seed will make is so much bigger than this world or this life.
Commission means that we are a sending church. We honor the past, while we work for the future. And we always believe that everyone’s brightest days are ahead of them.
Pastor Kevin, lead pastor of Mount Hope Church in Lansing, MI, gives a powerful message about faith.
if you have no gauge on what is important, then you have no way to measure whether or not you are on the right track. That is what Core Values do… they keep us disciplined… they keep us on mission… they give us something the bounce whatever it is we are doing, off of, and see… IS THIS FURTHERING THE MISSION?
The world is watching how the church will continue to respond to the issue of racism that is so evident in our world today.
In his first Sunday visiting us at Courage Church, Pastor Brad Reed (lead Pastor of the New York Dream Center and one of the overseers/pastors of Jacob and Dawn Bender) talks about impartation, and about building the church on a firm foundation.
the mission at work.