The resurrection isn’t the end of the story: it’s the beginning of the revolution. Following Easter, join us for our Sunday gatherings at Midtown as we explore the book of Acts, which follows the earliest years of the church and provides a profound glimpse into the revolutionary nature of the Kingdom of God. This isn’t simply the start of a new religious sect that we reflect on appreciatively; it isn’t simply another social group we recall and draw inspiration from; it is the reporting of the cosmic drama of God and humanity, together in partnership to bring flourishing to all things, the same cosmic drama we participate in today. This is the remarkable next of the resurrection.
Listen as Pastor Clint explores Acts 15 and the famous Jerusalem Council, where the early church, by the work of the Holy Spirit, establishes once and for all the remarkable role of grace in the story of the Gospel, working together to fight against ledger card living in all its destructive aspects
Sermon Resources:
1. “The bible was written for us, but it wasn’t written to us.” -Dr. John Walton
2. “What comes to our mind when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” -A.W. Tozer
3. “The questions that truly matter in life are remarkably few, and they are all answered by these words— “Come to Me.” Our Lord’s words are not, “Do this, or don’t do that,” but— “Come to me.” If I will simply come to Jesus, my real life will be brought into harmony with my real desires. I will actually cease from sin, and will find the song of the Lord beginning in my life.” -Oswald Chambers, My Utmost For His Highest
4. “Christianity is the proclamation of the end of religion, not of a new religion, or even of the best of all religions. If the cross is the sign of anything, it's the sign that God has gone out of the religion business and solved all of the world's problems without requiring a single human being to do a single religious thing. What the cross is actually a sign of is the fact that religion can't do a thing about the world's problems - that it never did work and it never will.” -Robert Farrar Capon
5. “Not only do we relinquish anything which will cause our judgmentalism of others, but we are also to remove anything which will cause them to judge us and miss our message. Habits, quirks of behavior, irrelevant beliefs and associations which cripple us in getting through to people must go! No strings can be attached to people or to the extent to which we will go to reach them with unqualified love.” -Lloyd John Ogilvie, "The Drumbeat of Love"
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