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Sermon Title: Now what?
Passagew: Romans 15:17-22

Francis Schaeffer said these two things would be the greatest hindrance to the church fulfilling it’s calling:

  1. Personal Peace
  2. Affluence

        “Because we approach the gospel with preconceived notions of what it should say rather than what it does say, the Word no longer falls like rain on the parched ground of our souls. It no longer sweeps like a wild storm into the corners of our comfortable piety. It no longer vibrates like sharp lightning in the dark recesses of our non-historic orthodoxy. The gospel becomes, in the words of Gertrude Stein, “a pattering of pious platitudes spoken by a Jewish carpenter in the distant past.” The Ragamuffin Gospel - Brennan Manning

Ultimately, living missionally is about taking love-based risks.

    “For Christ’s love compels us, … he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them. 2 Corinthians 5:14

    I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my people, those of my own race, the people of Israel. Romans 9:2-3

    I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some. I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings. 1 Corinthians 9:23

The redemptive edge is the place where the kingdom of God and the kingdom of hell are fighting it out for supremacy in the human heart and in the world.

    “Some want to live within the sound of church or chapel bell; but I want to run a rescue shop, within a yard of hell.” CT Studd

    “I think that the deepest motive for mission is simply the desire to be with Jesus where he is, on the frontier between the reign of God and the usurped dominion of the devil.” Leslie Newbigin

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