Last Sunday my church's missions coordinator Jeff Moody delivered the fifth installment in the ongoing series No One is an Island, titled Who Will Rise Up? Jeff used a variety of passages from the New Testament as Biblical source material and broke his message down to four aspects of the church...and by "church" he means the collective body of believers and followers of Christ...
The church is thriving, struggling, expanding, and not yet complete. Jeff encouraged us to take each section and think of specific examples pertaining to them...and then ask ourselves how we are contributing to that particular state, for better or for worse. In this respect, this sermon was more of an open-ended one...
For the thriving church, Jeff cited 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10: work produced by faith, labor prompted by love, endurance inspired by hope in Jesus Christ...
For the struggling church: 1 Corinthians 3:1-3: jealousy and quarreling reveals worldliness and spiritual immaturity...
For the expanding church: Acts 6:7, 9:31, 13:2-3: the Holy Spirit encouraged growth of the early church...
And for the church not yet complete: Matthew 24:14, Revelation 7:9-12: first the gospel of the kingdom of God is to be witnessed to all nations, then "shall the end come"...
You can go to Bible Gateway and look up these passages through their search engine...here's a link to this site: [link]. Jeff's message can be accessed through The Family Church's YouTube video website, available through this link: [link]. The Family Church, located at 2022 SW 122nd Street in far western Gainesville, holds its Sunday morning services at 9:30 and 11...
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