What if the church wasn’t just something you do?

I: The Great Co-Mission
• Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Matthew 28:18-20
• Go and make isn’t a task, it’s a lifestyle
• Invite people into your life, not to a location. Flip the Script-Foreword, Ben Mandrell
• Jesus, overhearing, shot back, “Who needs a doctor: the healthy or the sick? Go figure out what this Scripture means: ‘I’m after mercy, not religion.’ I’m here to invite outsiders, not coddle insiders.” Matthew 9:12-13

II: The Great Commandment
• Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” Matthew 22:37-40

He loved first
• This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 1 John 4:9-10
• My relationship with God sets the tone for every other relationship in my life

Love your neighbor
• Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. 1 John 4:11-12

We are called to BE God’s church, not do church

Credit:
Logos Bible Study Program
Re-Focus by Dr. Dave E. Cole
Flip the Script by Chuck Peters, Jana Magruder, and Stephanie Salvatore