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Some years ago the London Transit Authority was receiving a lot of complaints because their buses were driving past customers who were standing at the bus stops.
The Transit Authority put an explanation in the paper that has become infamous with public relations departments.
The explanation said,
“It is impossible for us to maintain our schedule if we are always having to stop and pick up passengers.”
(Repeat the quote)
Huh?
What is their main mission????
Why do they exist?
Do they exist merely to drive their route?
Or to transport passengers?
They have CLEARLY lost sight of their mission!
Likewise….I wonder sometimes if we have lost sight of our mission, as a church
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Are we “On Mission”?
What is the mission of the church?
In today’s text, we see that Paul has the mission of the Gospel FIRST and foremost in his mind.
The message of forgiveness through Jesus being proclaimed to all comes before anything else –and it’s WHY he does what he does.
When we read this…we see a couple of things happen:
· Paul circumcised Timothy…..
o The obvious question is WHY would he do that?
o There’s a reason…and we’ll get to that.
· They then go and encourage the believers in the churches that they had planted.
o Why? Again….there’s a reason, and we’ll get to that.
· BOTH of these things were done for the same reason.
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The mission of the church is to make disciples
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The mission of the church is to make disciples
a.
b.
Ultimately, God is glorified when a sinner repents and turns to God
i.
ii.
The message of the Gospel is that in Christ alone, we are saved
1.
Only through him dying on the cross can we be forgiven….
2. ONLY THROUGH trusting in the sacrifice he made, are we made righteous before God…..
3.
But what seems to happen is that we tend to be about everything BUT the Gospel.
4. Far too often…we concentrate on EVERYTHING else….
a. Examples:
i. Politics
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Social activities
iii.
Social justice
b.
But we need to realize that it’s the Gospel – not the things of the WORLD that we are called to.
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We can worry about everything BUT the mission….
i.
And we tend to forget about the main REASON of why Jesus left us here: to go and make disciples.
1. Yes---fellowship is fun
2. We are supposed to get along, and love each other
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We SHOULD be a family
4. We SHOULD care for the needy, the poor, the hungry
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But WHY do we do those things?
6. It’s to accomplish the mission.
a.
Those are all MEANS to the end
b.
By doing those things, we accomplish the mission of the taking the Gospel to the world
c.
So here with Paul and Timothy…..we see that God is in charge of the mission
i.
He will build his church
d.
Remember what happened last chapter?
i. Paul and Barnabas had a bit of a falling out
ii. Barnabas took John Mark and went one way, Paul and Silas went another way
e.
But God had a plan in all of this
i.
I mentioned last week…..that instead of causing a split, and hurting the message of Christ…
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There were now two teams doing ministry
2. TWO teams of people preaching the Gospel in the region.
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Paul went to Derbe and Lystra
1.
He encounters Timothy….
a. Son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, Greek father
b. “was a Greek” – may indicate that he was dead, mom a single mother
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He is “well-spoken of” by the brothers – the church
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So, Timothy is a young man…probably late teens, early 20’s.
He has a good reputation among the church
e. Paul recruited him for the journey
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He circumcised Timothy – and THAT causes us to raise an eyebrow……
1. Wait a second….why
would Paul DO THAT?
2. That seems kind of CURIOUS, doesn’t it?
3. WHY would he do that?
a. Remember where Paul and Barnabas had just gone last chapter?
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There was a big argument about whether or not Christians first had to be Jews
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The apostles in Jerusalem said “NO”……they don’t
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No—Christians do not have to be Jewish and follow the Jewish Law to be saved.
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We don’t have to keep the Law… BECAUSE…..
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