This Faith Sermon Series
“Same Purpose, Same Power”
Acts 1:1-11(Bible p. 909)
Bob Myers, Lead Pastor
September 10 & 11, 2016
Quotes from the Cutting Room Floor
“There has been a long tradition which sees the mission of the Church primarily as obedience to a command. It has been customary to speak of ‘the missionary mandate.’ This way of putting the matter is certainly not without justification, and yet it seems to me that it misses the point. It tends to make mission a burden rather than a joy, to make it part of the law rather than part of the gospel. If one looks at the New Testament evidence one gets another impression. Mission begins with a kind of explosion of joy. The news that the rejected and crucified Jesus is alive is something that cannot possibly be suppressed. It must be told. Who could be silent about such a fact? The mission of the Church in the pages of the New Testament is more like the fallout from a vast explosion, a radioactive fallout which is not lethal but life-giving.” Bishop Lesslie Newbigin
"And if we are surrounded by a world which no longer believes in the concept of truth, certainly we cannot expect people to have any interest in whether a man's doctrine is correct or not. But Jesus did give the mark that will arrest the attention of the world, even the attention of the modern man... Because every man is made in the image of God and has therefore aspirations for love. There is something that can be in every geographical climate, in every point of time, which cannot fail to arrest his attention. What is it? The love that true Christians show for each other, and not just their own party" (Francis Schaeffer,The Mark of the Christian).
It is your responsibility to see to it that the church under your care continues as a gathering of people in process; a place where the curious,the unconvinced, the skeptical, the used-to-believe and the broken, as well as the committed, informed and sold-out come together around Peter's declaration that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God."—Andy Stanley(Deep and Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend
"You don’t understand — there are things worth dying for!"—Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling