Paul

Famous One
Great and Glorious
Come Thou Fount
One Thing Remains
I Have A Maker

Jeami

Still need underwear for the kids
Going back in a week

Jon

Another trip to Uganda planned for next year
The kids love to play with us
Start in the book of Acts tonight
We are approaching our 10th year as a church
Like relationships, you start taking things for granted
So time to shake things up, make you a little uncomfortable
Open up in prayer
Acts 1:1-8
Luke is unpacking some things that are in process
Church planting in Buena Park
We are partnering with Real Life Covenant in Norwalk which is in their first year and Life Covenant in Torrance
This will push us to give a little more
When we look at what Christ demands of us, it pales in comparison
Jesus we believe everything You say
We want Your priorities to be our priorities
Luke is talking to Theopholis about the things he unpacked in his first book (gospel)
There is something else that needs to carry on
Follow Me
Join Me in my work
Looking for people who want to be redemptive in the world
I’m looking for people who want to give their heart for this cause
5000 people served in one sitting
Imitate everything I do
Not the literal miracle
John 14:12
I’m leaving you with what I started, but you will do greater things
That demand begins to make sense in the context of the people, the community
think about all Jesus commanded us to do
If you believe that Jesus was resurrected
Feed those who are hungry in a constant theme
120 Christians in Acts
We get this misperception thinking about the early church
Hear about home churches – they couldn’t be very big
Everyone believed in the resurrection
Caesar demanded that people bow to him and call him Lord
Later in Acts home churches gave up their money to help their community
This wasn’t theory, creed, delusions
This was belief
One catch for newcomers – everyone is equal
Before you walk in the way of Christ, understand that it’s not about you and your relationship with the Father, but about the community
A Holy God sitting with Samaritans and touching lepers?!?
Going into dark places that Jews had trouble following
Jesus – God in a bod
He addressed the religious AND the irreligious
In that society, women weren’t equal with men, but in God’s kingdom, everyone is equal
Talking with Stephen Keating at Starbucks ahoy theology and unpacking things and he said something I liked
Co-creators, co-redeemers
So Jesus is resurrected and what does He talk about? Kingdom of God
The author goes into great detail about bring a Christian
Thank you for making great art, for making redemptive art
Does anybody want to go out and catch people?
We are going to go to pagan cultures and rescue them
This is where I go
We still need to follow after Christ
Do you want to step in the process?
Someday Jesus Christ is going to come back to this earth
In His calling, we are supposed to spread the word
Calls for a sacrifice in time, effort, money
The last part of v. 3
Kingdom of God, kingdom of heaven
Here now
Not the future but the present
Wherever the kingdom is present, there He is
People bring brought back into life, that’s where the kingdom is present, where it breaks into our world and our lives
Jesus kept challenging us to get into the kingdom of heaven
If Jesus is the King of my life, my marriage, my home, what do these things look like?
Seek first Jesus as king
His perspective becomes our perspective
If Jesus says let’s keep talking
Lord let your kingdom come
Break in everywhere
We are making a choice to participate
It’s like a group of white people in Manhattan Beach giving
We want to restore and rebuild
Lord Jesus come
We want to participate in what You’re doing
The Holy Spirit sends us
If you follow Me, I will make you catchers of people

Paul

Jon

Prayers for Jeami as well as Julie Goodrich & family
It’s their last Sundays next week so please try and make it