The Way: Week 7 June 28, 2009, Sunday
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Paul preached out of Acts 4, focusing on verses 10-12:
What’s in a name:
- Peter was the 1st person to speak of Jesus as a “rock” v 11
Who is the Way?
- Jesus is!!! John 14:6
- He is the cornerstone of the true house of God.
- His ministry went against the religious current.
- Judaism was centered in a building – Temple
- “Concentric circles of sacred space.”
- Jesus is the place where God and Humans meet. Not in anything that we have done ourselves.
- Jesus erased the lines between sacred space and secular space. . . are you trying to draw them again?
- Who follows the way?
- A people, A Family,
- More than Christians by identity, we are the WAY- Jesus-Followers by practice.
The Way: Week 5 June 14, 2009, Sunday
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Today Paul taught about “Finding the Way — where the path begins”
our focus for todays message was Acts 2:36-38
In review:
- the way is not a religion, or any other human institution!
- It not a set of propositions to believe in!
- The Way IS a life pattern which = habits
- The Way has 2 aspects
1 – Salvation = beginning
2 – Stewardship = life style
1 – Repent = turning or changing ones course
- do not confuse repentance with being sorry . . .
2 – Baptized = An act of love and obedience
- being baptized does not save us . . . but it’s our first chance to publicly display our new found faith.
3 – Forgiveness = cancellation of the penalty
- “redemption” bought us back to usefullness
- Restored in relationship
4. Choice =
- the way requires choices Joshua 24:15
- the choices are not always between good and bad . . . but they always bare consequences.
* Are you living the Way? How?
The Way: Week 4 June 7, 2009, Sunday
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This week Paul preached from the 1st chapter of Acts. Here are some of his points…
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— The Way: How it Began—
- The church was “jump started” by an appearance of the risen Jesus.
- It was by the strength they gained after seeing Him, that they were able to go into all the world.
3 Things Jesus told them in the 1st chapter:
1. Wait on the Holy Spirit
-So what’s so important about waiting on the Lord?
— We are powerless to act without Him.
— We will fail if we act without him.
2. Don’t count the days (v 7)
— Don’t ask the wrong questions when serving God.
— We should ask How instead of when…
3. Be my witness (v 8)
— What is a witness: The Greek word is martureo, this is the word where we get “martyr”.
— How far are you willing to go to stand by your convictions?
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How are you living the Way?
