
Sermon Questions - July 19, 2020 - Pastor Jeremy MacDonald
SPEAKER: Pastor Jeremy MacDonald
MESSAGE: Stand Up!
SCRIPTURE: Acts 17:16-31
Acts 1:8NIV
8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
Acts 17:16ESV
16 Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols.
Ecclesiastes 1:18NIV
18 For with much wisdom comes much sorrow;the more knowledge, the more grief.
Matthew 23:37NIV
37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing.
Acts 17:17NIV
17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with both Jews and God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the marketplace day by day with those who happened to be there.
Acts 17:23NIV
23 For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: to an unknown god. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship—and this is what I am going to proclaim to you.
Acts 17:24-25NIV
24 “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. 25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.
Acts 17:26NIV
26 From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.
Acts 17:27-28NIV
27 God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. 28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
John 17:3NIV
3 Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
Acts 17:29-31NIV
29 “Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by human design and skill. 30 In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. 31 For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.”
QUESTIONS:
What has COVID19 taught me about what it means to be the church?
How might the Spirit of God want me to change the way I view and feel about the city I am living in?
In what ways can I tangibly reach out to non-believers with the life-giving message of the gospel?
How might we creatively leverage technology to reach people in this time?