Who Needs the Church?

Matthew 28:16-20

Road Trip 10 | Kyle McRill | nextgen director | wyoming campus | first aired on 08.11.2019

Everyone needs the Church because it is through the Church that we receive the saving message of Jesus.

Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 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 28:16-20 NIV

You see, the church has a God-ordained mission to fulfill. The people who say yes to Jesus and seek to follow him aren’t just a scattered mass of disconnected people simply passing time on earth and passively waiting for heaven. We have a distinct purpose. —Kevin Myers

I. We are missional when we are

He welcomed them and spoke to them about the kingdom of God, and healed those who needed healing. —Luke 9:11 NIV

So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. —Matthew 6:31-33 NIV

II. We are missional when we are

My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one—I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. —John 17:20-23 NIV

As the Church, we don’t always have to see eye-to-eye on everything; but we do have to walk hand-in-hand in unity and in love. We can only do this when we exercise mature and grown up faith.

III. We are missional when we live

Then all of the disciples deserted him and fled. —Matthew 26:56 NIV

A Question to consider:
How is God calling you to be missional?

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