WHERE FUNCTION AND MISSION MEET-
DON’T WAIT FOR FUNCTION TO DO MISSION
We are dysfunctional-
DYS-SATISFIED DYS-STRESSED DYS-APPOINTED DYS-COURAGED
Don’t confuse simple with easy.
ALL FUNCTION STARTS WITH THE TRUTH.
1.THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD.
“You shall have no other gods before Me.
EX. 20:3
PHILOSOPHER PETER KREEFT-The opposite of theism(belief in God) is not atheism, it is idolatry.
“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me,The fountain of living waters, To
hew for themselves cisterns,Broken cisterns that can hold no water. Jeremiah 2:13 Bible (NASB)
2.THE TRUTH ABOUT YOU
“ Do not be shaped by this world; instead be changed within by a new way of thinking.
Then you will be able to decide what God wants for you; you will know what is good
and pleasing to him and what is perfect.” Romans 12: 2 [NCV]
3.THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE
So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also
walk, in the futility of their mind…EPHESIANS 4:17
Your word is a doorway that lets in light,and it helps gullible people understand. Psalm
119:130(GW)
4.THE TRUTH ABOUT HARD TIMES
He comes alongside us when we go through hard times, and before you know it, he brings us
alongside someone else who is going through hard times so that we can be there for that person
just as God was there for us.2 CORINTHIANS 1:4
5.THE TRUTH ABOUT THE CHURCH
Make this your common practice: Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other
so that you can live together whole and healed. The prayer of a person living right with
God is something powerful to be reckoned with. JAMES 5:16-18
SIN CERA- LATIN-without wax.
So let’s do it—full of belief, confident that we’re presentable inside and out. Let’s keep a firm grip on
the promises that keep us going. He always keeps his word. Let’s see how inventive we can be in
encouraging love and helping out, not avoiding worshiping together as some do but spurring each
other on, especially as we see the big Day approaching. Hebrews 10:22- (MSG)
