August 10th & 14th, 2022
The Art of Being Unordinary
Billy Sunday
Dear, dear Corinthians, I can’t tell you how much I long for you to enter this wide-open, spacious life. We didn’t fence you in. The smallness you feel comes from within you. Your lives aren’t small, but you’re living them in a small way. I’m speaking as plainly as I can and with great affection. Open up your lives. Live openly and expansively!
—2 Corinthians 6:11-13 (MSG)
Go - is the passionate response in which the Holy Spirit in me is at work to bring Jesus to those desiring, looking, and searching around me.
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations…
—Matthew 28:19 NIV
“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses, telling peple about me everywhere - in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
—Acts 1:8
But the believers who were scattered preached the Good News about Jesus wherever they went. Philip, for example, went to the city of Samaria and told the people there about the Messiah.
—Acts 8:4-5
Acts 8:26-40
26 As for Philip, an angel of the Lord said to him, “Go south down the desert road that runs from Jerusalem to Gaza.”. 27 So he started out, and he met the treasurer of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under the Kandake, the queen of Ethiopia. The eunuch had gone to Jerusalem to worship, 28 and he was now returning. Seated in his carriage, he was reading aloud from the book of the prophet Isaiah. 29 The Holy Spirit said to Philip, “Go over and walk along beside the carriage.” 30 Philip ran over and heard the man reading from the prophet Isaiah. Philip asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?” 31 The man replied, “How can I, unless someone instructs me?” And he urged Philip to come up into the carriage and sit with him. 32 The passage of Scripture he had been reading was this: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter. And as a lamb is silent before the shearers, he did not open his mouth. 33 He was humiliated and received no justice. Who can speak of his descendants? For his life was taken from the earth.” 34 The eunuch asked Philip, “Tell me, was the prophet talking about himself or someone else?” 35 So beginning with this same Scripture, Philip told him the Good News about Jesus. 36 As they rode along, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Look! There’s some water! Why can’t I be baptized?” [d]38 He ordered the carriage to stop, and they went down into the water, and Philip baptized him. 39 When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away. The eunuch never saw him again but went on his way rejoicing. 40 Meanwhile, Philip found himself farther north at the town of Azotus. He preached the Good News there and in every town along the way until he came to Caesarea.
1. The significance of GO never determines the size of your
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2. The success of GO isn’t about having it
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3. The surprise of GO is that God is already
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Next Steps:
1. Today, I accept Jesus and desire to follow Him.
2. I will read the book of Acts this week.
3. I desire to go and will follow the activity of the Holy Spirit in my life.
4. I know that our church is growing and will park in the back parking lot.