Great Doubt to Great Joy

Prayer

We considered the concept of becoming a "house of prayer" as defined in Mark 11, and emphasized that believers carry both the authority of Jesus and the intimacy with God. In what ways are we using prayer as a tool to see God's kingdom break out into our city?

Ministry in the Church Body

As we looked at Ephesians 4, we focused on the Ministry & Mission environment of our Discipleship Pathway, and zoomed in on the Ministry side. We considered how believers can participate with the Holy Spirit to build up the church. Just as Jesus received authority from God to give the ultimate gift of His "body" (the church) to the world, individual believers have also received unique gifts meant to be given back to strengthen that body.

To The Ends of the Earth

We considered that every believer is part of a "royal priesthood" called to both an inward-facing role of worshiping God and an outward-facing role of sharing the Gospel. As the church body, we are called to align our earthly priorities with the realities of heaven through local and global mission.

Heavenly Humanity on Earth Part 2

Humanity is aching for a kind of life it cannot manufacture on it's own. The future re-creation that humanity longs for has broken into the present through Jesus. We can't do the Lord's work without the Lord's way. His way is empowered by the Holy Spirit. We, the church, are the Spirit filled, Heavenly Humanity on Earth.

Heavenly Humanity on Earth

This week we considered that God’s primary mission is recreation of the world through Jesus. The church is called to be a "new humanity" empowered by the Holy Spirit. We have a personal invitation to allow God into the "wastelands" of their own lives—such as broken habits or stagnant desires—to begin His recreative work from the inside out, through the Spirit.