Vision Month 2023
• Culture eats strategy for breakfast. The vision in the hall beats the vision on the wall. Who are we? What drives you to be a part of Agape? How are you a part of of fleshing out our vision of “Worship God, Love People, and Make Disciples”?
• The call of this month is to talk about
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• In light of our vision, it only makes sense to have an eternal perspective. But what does that mean and what does that look like?
• Living with an eternal perspective means that we live under His Lordship here and now >> 1 Corinthians 10:31
• But Lordship is about
2 Corinthians 5:6-10
6 So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, 7 for we walk by faith, not by sight. 8 Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
• Context >> Paul is talking about the fleeting nature of our
• God has saved us and we have an eternal place awaiting us that Jesus is building (John 14). So, we are physically away from Him while we are at home in our bodies and we walk by faith, in courage, knowing that our eternal
9 So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
• While He orders our steps in this life, we know what our goal is. Our goal is to live a life that
• There is accountability for how we live. One day all believers will appear before the judgment seat of Christ to “receive what is due” for what we have done in the
• Resource: “Your Eternal Reward: Triumph and Tears at the Judgment Seat of Christ” by Erwin Lutzer
• David Jeremiah >> At the Bema Seat of Christ, earthly wreaths and trophies and newspaper clippings and Super Bowl rings will be long forgotten. They’ll be no more important than brushing your teeth or buying a newspaper at the corner store. But what we do (now) for eternity—even the smallest of deeds—will count forever.
• Jesus has paid for our sins, taken our
• Ray Pritchard >> Heaven is a free gift that cannot be earned or deserved. But when we get to heaven, we will be judged on the basis of the life we live after coming to Christ. In that day, some people will see all that they have lived for go up in smoke. Others will receive great rewards, which are called crowns in the New Testament
• For the believer, this encounter is not meant to cultivate terror, but inject eternal
What will we be evaluated?
1 Corinthians 3:9-15 | For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, God’s building. 10 According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. 11 For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— 13 each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. 14 If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.
• How can I become a master builder?
// Build with God’s
// Build with your
// Build with your
// Build with your
• Jim Elliot >> He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.