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Gospel Community Announcement
What are Gospel Communities?
Medium-sized groups of 5-10 households, 20-40 people.
Gather once a month to share a meal, build relationships, share what God’s doing in their lives, and pray for one another.
Why are Gospel Communities important?
Gospel Communities will help us love and care for the church well.
Gospel Communities will be a relational context for discipleship and spiritual growth.
Our job as a church isn’t to fill the seats and increase revenue.
It’s to be disciples of Jesus who make disciples of Jesus.
Character transformation requires relationships with others who share a common identity: disciple of Jesus.
When will Gospel Communities start?
September.
We need to know how many Gospel Communities we need to start, so we need to know how many people are interested in joining a Gospel Community.
Sermon Introduction
What is success?
Last week, we reached a turning point in the Sermon on the Mount, so I want to summarize the path we’ve hiked so far.
Jesus began in the beatitudes, showing us the mountain of God’s kingdom.
This is the blessed life, the flourishing life.
This is what it means to be human as God created us to be.
Then Jesus invited us to hike up the mountain with him, to be the salt and the light.
“Follow me up the mountain into the kingdom life, further up, further in.
To the summit!”
In order to climb the mountain and live the kingdom life, you must have a greater righteousness.
Climbing the Mountain With Jesus
There’s a greater righteousness than self-righteousness.
There is a holiness deeper than moral performance.
Heart transformation is greater than behavior management.
God cares more about who you are than what you do.
Self-righteous superiority isn’t the way of the kingdom.
I’m glad you haven’t murdered anyone, but you are so angry.
You have hatred in your heart and murder in your mouth—that’s not the kingdom life.
I’m glad that you love people who are like you, who share your views, but you utterly despise people who disagree with you—that’s not the kingdom life.
Integrity is greater than image management.
God cares more about who you are than who others think you are.
He cares more about your actual life than your instagram life.
It’s great that you pray and give and fast, but why are you doing those things?
Are you as devoted to God in private as you are at church?
Are you as serious about faith at school on Thursday as you were at youth group on Wednesday night?
Are you the same person on the inside as you are on the outside?
Illustration: Scene in the old Spiderman movie where Uncle Ben says, “Peter, you’re becoming the man you will be for the rest of your life.
What kind of man are you becoming?”
You are becoming the kind of person you will be for the rest of eternity.
What kind of person are you becoming?
The pinnacle of human existence is a loving relationship with “our Father in heaven.”
The peak at the top of the mountain of life is to love and be loved by God.
“Our Father in heaven, hallowed be thy name.”
There’s only one path to that peak: being wholly devoted to God alone.
The only path that leads to the pinnacle of human existence is the path of following Jesus together.
Illustration: This isn’t PC… But, God’s mountain is a different mountain.
You can’t walk all these other paths on the world’s mountain and reach the top of God’s mountain.
Exposition
Your heart can only be in one place at a time (Matt 6:19-21).
Your eyes can only focus on one thing at a time (Matt 6:22-23).
Your life can only be devoted to one master at a time (Matt 6:24).
God is a better master because God is a loving Father (Matt 6:25-34).
Application: When push comes to shove, our true loyalty is revealed.
Conclusion: Communion Reflection
What do you fear?
What do you celebrate?
What is success?
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