Back to the Gospel

I had an opportunity to speak this last Sunday at Holiday Park Church of God which was a good experience. This is a church that has been through struggle and a lot of change in recent times. The church building was originally built in the 50′s or 60′s and was a thriving, in standards of numbers, church at one time and is now in a point of history in which they must either change or die as church cycles typically go. This is never an easy thing for a church to go through, it can be a very painful process, but they are taking it in stride and making the changes needed to once again become a thriving church being relevant to the changing community around them. They have been doing a missions emphasis month and invited me in to speak about MISSION.

Here is a video that I put together as part of what I spoke about

One the big emphasis that I talked about was to bring the people back to the simplicity and importance to the Gospel message. I think often as seasoned Christians we kind of move beyond the Good News of the Gospel and begin to focus more on the do’s and do not’s of the Christian life. The problem is that we then began to look at others in this light instead of sharing and letting the Good News of the Gospel change people. Even Paul in 1 Corinthians 15 has to remind the people, the church of the Gospel and says it is of “First Importance.” We have examples throughout scripture of the Gospel impacting lives in the case of Phillip and the Ethiopian Eunuch in Acts 8, and elsewhere throughout the New Testament. This Gospel is the MISSION and to share the Good News with others is what we are here to do.

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