“Being an Evangelical and Why”
Cherry Hills Community Church
Highlands Ranch, CO 80126-7801
November 30, 2008
Dr. Tony Campolo
Cherry Hills Community Church
Highlands Rach, CO 80126-7801
November 30, 2008—10:45AM
1. Song-Let Everything that has breath praise the Lord
2. Song-Your grace is enough
3. Song-Better is one day
4. Speaker-church announcements, prayer
5. Song-How deep the Father’s love
6. Speaker-intro of Dr. Campolo
7. Differences between power and authority. Power: The ability to coerce
8. Gave the illustration/joke about the cop having authority because he has a gun
9. Authority: you have authority when someone has the desire to obey you
10. Illustration: Mom’s authority (the more she sacrificed, the more authority she had)
11. Quotes Philippians 2
12. Story about Pennsylvania’s halfway houses and Mother Teresa
13. Story of Elias Santana, and man at the edge of the crowd
14. Jesus had authority, Herod/Pilate/Cesar had power
15. Loving sacrifice earns authority. Lordship established on the cross
16. Story of Japanese-Christian who cared for American pilots, contracted TB (Great Kuago?)
17. Economic recession—take no thought for tomorrow, Matthew 6
18. Revelation 18-19. Babylon and New Jerusalem
19. Invest in the kingdom
20. Kierkegaard—story about affluent congregation, gilded Bible
21. Where do you spend your money? What do you invest in? That’s where your heart is
22. Story about train from Victoria Station and Vietnam vets
23. Difference between being a believer and being a disciple. Disciple is to follow Jesus, who sacrificed it all to rescue us
24. Story of student at UPenn—who cares about the things of Babylon?
25. Babylon is a seductive system—two reactions to fall of Babylon
26. Romans 12:1—present living sacrifice of all you are and all you have
27. Closing prayer/invitation to support Haiti
Tags: power, authority, mom, Philippians 2, Pennsylvania, Mother Theresa, Elias Santana, Herod, Pilate, Cesar, Japanese-Christian, TB, Kuago, Matthew 6, Revelation 18-19, Babylon, New Jerusalem, Kierkegaard, money, Vietnam, believer, disciple, UPenn, Romans 12:1, Haiti
11302008 1045AM Cherry Hills Community Church