Pastor Joe Sanders - October 2, 2011
Living Radical Together for the Nations
Most of us have connected well with the Gospel's message of grace- we love it, we desire it, we want it in our lives and in the lives of our loved ones. We understand some of the value of it for ourselves and the ones we care about in terms of our need for salvation and forgiveness of our sins. In the midst of that, we many of us have also disconnected God's saving grace from the passion of God's heart and we end up with a very self-centered Christianity that misses the heart of God. We're in this study to see if God has indeed called us to something higher and greater than a religion that begins with and terminates on us. As we see God's higher calling and purposes and love and passion for the nations to come to him, we must shift our values and attitudes to better align with him. We'll see that to ask for God's blessings is an honorable thing so long as we understand that our passion and joy will be filled up only when we join God's purposes for the peoples and nations to know and worship him!
Scripture References: John 67:1-7