Archive for Mission
Becoming an “Easter Community”
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Readers: Tara Steele & Tracey Fish
Speaker: Wayne Cox
In Acts 9:36-43, Tabitha is raised from the dead. Easter and the reality of resurrection are on display, not least in the community that surrounded the risen disciple.
God’s Expanding Embrace
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Reader: Mark McDonald
Speaker: Wayne Cox
Luke 4:21-30. The story of Jesus being driven to the edge by the crowd that day is a story about us. When we don’t really want to think that “other” people, different from us could ever be with us or one of us, we need to hear this message. God is at work in the people of that other culture, other land, other skin-color, other sexual orientation, other religion, other political party … How large is your view of God’s nature, how wide is your understanding of God’s embrace, how deep is your sense of the movement of God?
Mission: Multiplication
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Speaker: Wayne Cox
John 15:1-17. Fruitfulness, growth, and maturity are natural characteristics of God’s people in the Bible. And yet, we’ve become accustomed to a church that is not growing or multiplying in the way it was intended. Our mission is to experience Spirit-driven multiplication on every level: one-on-one, small group, and congregation.
Mission: Disciple-Making
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Speaker: Wayne Cox
The task of disciple-making is central to a biblical, missional church. Beginning with Jesus’ parting words in Matthew 28:18-20, this message takes a look at the task of making disciples of Jesus Christ. Wayne gives two action-steps for us to take: Imitating and Embedding.
Mission: Incarnational vs. Attractional
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Speaker: Wayne Cox
John 20:21. The mission of God has always been about sending and scattering and the modern-day church is often guilty of making it about attracting and gathering. We explore the ways in which Jesus modeled an incarnational mission and what this will mean for his followers. Wayne quoted from the book, The Forgotten Ways, by Alan Hirsch.
