Acts
Part 28: Sent to be Faithful
Sunday, June 4, 2023
Josh Weiland - November 22, 2020
Small Town, Big God
As we wrap up our series, we’re reminded that nothing will change in regard to the culture of outrage we live in apart from personal, loving engagement. We’ve been sent as ambassadors of Jesus, to live and love as he would and as he does. The Father sent Jesus to almost exclusively small places—small towns and villages that seemed insignificant in many ways. Our big God put on flesh and moved into the neighborhood of a small town. In the same way he’s sent our church and our people into small towns. Small places that may seem insignificant, but are anything but. God has a track record of doing extraordinary places. We’re sent to love people and invite them to follow Jesus with us, and it begins in the small places of our neighborhoods, homes, and workplaces.
From Series: "Life in the Age of Outrage"
This series is inspired by and borrows from the 2018 book from Dr. Ed Stetzer, "Christians in the Age of Outrage". As we face the 2020 election while also finding our way through COVID, this series will explore how, as followers of Jesus, we can bring our best to a world at its worst.
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Sent to be Faithful
Acts 14 records the heart of Paul and Barnabas’s first journey to spread the Gospel. After being run out of Antioch, they head to Iconium where once again there is fruitfulness as they share the Gospel along with opposition to it. When a plan to mistreat and stone them surfaces, they move on to Lystra. In Lystra a crippled man is healed at Paul’s word. After witnessing the miracle, the crowds believe Barnabas and Paul to be Zeus and Hermes. When Paul and Barnabas insist they are not gods but mere men chaos ensues. Paul is stoned and dragged out of the city, assumed dead. After the disciples gather around him he rises, reenters the city then heads to Derbe the following day. Paul and Barnabas were ministering in a culture deeply divided, chaotic, and often opposed to the Gospel—not unlike our own. When the world is full of chaos, opposition, & division, our job is to be faithful and point people to Jesus, leaving the results to God. Pastor Josh also gave a helpful paradigm of “Receive, Reject, Redeem” for us to use as Christians as we interact with our culture.
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