NRC Mission Statement
Challenging one another to find everyday opportunities to pursue and point to Jesus
NRC Measures
Listening for God’s Voice
Looking to God’s Word
Loving God’s People
Living Sent
BiG Idea: Living Sent: Pursuing
When it comes to Living Sent…
What everyday opportunity have you used to point someone to Jesus?
What opportunities did you miss to tell someone about Jesus?
Jesus was sent to earth to make God
John 17:1–8
17 Jesus spoke these things, looked up to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you, 2 since you gave him authority over all people,, so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him. 3 This is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and the one you have sent—Jesus Christ. 4 I have glorified you on the earth by completing the work you gave me to do. 5 Now, Father, glorify me in your presence with that glory I had with you before the world existed. 6 “I have revealed your name to the people you gave me from the world. They were yours, you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 7 Now they know that everything you have given me is from you, 8 because I have given them the words you gave me. They have received them and have known for certain that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.
John 17:2
2 since you gave him authority over all people,, so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him.
John 17:3
3 This is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and the one you have sent—Jesus Christ.
Eternal life is a
Challenge: Have I received eternal life?
Before I can be sent, I have to
John 17:18
18 As you sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. 19 I sanctify myself for them, so that they also may be sanctified by the truth.
Living Sent is taking
John 17:11
11 I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by your name that you have given me, so that they may be one as we are one.
John 17:17
17 Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.
Challenge: Have I become so focused on knowing and remembering the message that I’ve forgotten to deliver it?
We are called to Live Sent
John 17:23
23 I am in them and you are in me, so that they may be made completely one, that the world may know you have sent me and have loved them as you have loved me.
This Week I will:
Pursue Jesus by:
Point to Jesus by:
Memorize: John 17:18
Next Sunday: Hebrews 1