11/03/07 - SLC Session 3 by Summit Community Church

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Summit Leadership Conference 2007
November 3, 2007
Session III - The Church
The Gospel Impacting Our Church so We Can Go on Mission Together
John Ryan

The Church - The gospel of Jesus Christ also drives us into the church to love our brothers and sisters in Christ. Jesus said, "people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." (John 13:35) Our love for another must be a living demonstration of the gospel. We must be full of grace and truth with one another. We must forgive 70 times 7 and learn to receive forgiveness. We must be the walking living embodiment of the gospel of God's grace through Jesus Christ to one another. Part "A" of our mission, is to encourage one another to love God. From this part "B" (which cannot be separated from part "A"), will supernaturally flow - we will love others. (Again, this means the body of Christ and those not a part of the body of Christ.) If the church is on mission together first loving God, we will be about His mission in the culture. What stops us?

The enemy has long sought to keep God's people from living and speaking the gospel in the midst of the culture. There are four attacks the enemy uses with regularity and diversity.

First, he longs to make us try and separate ourselves from the culture like the Pharisees, fundamentalist religious rulers who saw people as the problem. We must fight against traditions that seek to steal our freedom and keep us from the culture.

Second, he longs to make us try and blend into the culture like the Sadducee's, liberal religious leaders who saw the world as the goal. We must fight against living worldly lives that steal our purity and keep us from having integrity in the culture.

Third, he longs to make us think we can rule over our culture like the Zealots, a religious sect who longed to impose their beliefs through political and physical might. We must fight against self-righteousness and the desire to change our culture through the law and fear and not through the Spirit.

Fourth, he longs to make us try and ignore the culture around us like the Essenes, a religious sect who lived in caves. We must fight against believing the culture does not matter and that by simply praying and preaching the Word we are being obedient to God's call.

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