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What is the mission of the Church?
— The Great Commission —
If that is true — then what does it mean?
What is the mission of believers?
But… What does that mean?
— Are we just supposed to come and sit in a pew and throw some money in the plate so the “ministers” can do ministry?
— Are we supposed to go on “missions trips” 2 or 3 times a year?!
— Are we supposed to knock on doors and “get people saved”?
— Do we create a “sinners seat” in the church so we can focus on the lost during worship?
— Seriously… What does “going into all the nations...” look like?
What is the purpose of the Great Commission for us?
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I think it is different than many of us think.
— we think it means “getting people saved”…
We are not called to “get people saved,” We are called to build bridges.
— Who was this talking about?
(John the Baptist)
— What was John’s mission?
Was it to get people saved?! (No! John was sent to Build Bridges.)
Look at what He told the Gerasene Demoniac:
Do you see what just happened there?!
— Jesus commissioned this man!
— He didn’t tell him to “go get people saved”…
— He told him to “go tell his story!”
— The village had rejected Him… the people refused to let Him in…
(This isn’t the only time this happened)
Luke 9:51-56 tells us of a Samaritan village that rejected Christ.... (this is where James and John wanted to call down fire from heaven)
— So… Jesus commissioned this man to “Build Bridges”....
He does the same with us!
We are not called to “get people saved”… We are called to Build Bridges — to “pave the way” for Jesus to enter people’s lives.
— “After this...” means we have to look back at what Luke wrote before…
— How often do we do that?
How often do we hear God calling us — commissioning us — and we make excuses?
(I’m to uneducated… I have a past… I can’t speak well… I don’t like people… )
If that is you, can I tell you something God said to me? (Someone here needs to hear this!)
Just as I took you from ashes to beauty, I will take your sin from destruction to salvation…
— Christ will use our lives — our Sin — those things we think disqualify us… to speak His Love into someone’s life — If we will let Him!
Look back at Luke 10:1-12
— Did you notice that nowhere in that passage did Jesus tell the 72 to “get people saved”?
— He didn’t tell the 12 disciples that either when He sent them out...
He told them:
— don’t take anything with you
— stay in the house that accepts you
— you are going out among wolves
— to eat and drink whatever is given to you
But… He never tells them to “get people saved”....
You see… that was His work!
Theirs was simply to “Build Bridges”.
That’s what we are called to do! Build Bridges!
Look at the Great Commission again:
(object lesson — people on one end of table, representation of the kingdom on the other… space in between))
(Jesus said to the 72 — “the Harvest is plentiful…”)
— Do we see the harvest (bring out the people)
— Our job… our task… is to build bridges from the people to the Kingdom… but that means that we have to “SEE” them!!!
— Each of us has a gift… a skill… a testimony… that God can use to build those bridges… (begin building a bridge from the people to the Kingdom)
We are called — just as the first disciples were called — to be “Bridge Builders”.
— We do not come to church to be lifted up… to be exalted… to be made “feel good”....
— We come to church to praise God… and to be equipped by Him to go OUT THERE and BUILD BRIDGES between the Kingdom and the Harvest!
I know… I know… “But Pastor, I don’t know how… I don’t have the training… I haven’t been called to be a pastor or missionary!”
Let me tell you:
You are called by Jesus.
Mt 4:19
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You are equipped by Jesus. 1 Co 12:7
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You have been given the Word of God. 2 Ti 2:15
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You are empowered by the Holy Spirit.
Eph 5:18
We have been commissioned by Christ to go and “Build Bridges” for Him to enter people’s lives…
“Are we going to be Bridge Builders?”
What is God asking you to do?
Who is He asking you to build a bridge to?
We are that voice.
Christ built that first Bridge to us… That’s what Communion celebrates!
The Communion table is where Christ calls us… where Christ heals and restores us… and where Christ says to us:
“Just as I took YOU from ashes to Beauty, I will turn your Sin fro destruction to SALVATION.”
(receive communion)
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