Three Thoughts After the Sermon

Three Thoughts After the Sermon
By Vermon Pierre, Lead Pastor

Some highlights/reminders/further thoughts from last Sunday's sermon, "Evangelize, Establish, Entrust: A Vision for the Expansion of the Kingdom through RCC":

1. I described mission this past Sunday as involving movement and intention. That definition of mission comes from the book, "Paul the Missionary" by Eckhard Schnabel. His full definition of mission or missions is worth mentioning. "The term 'mission' or 'missions' refers to the activity of a community of faith that distinguishes itself from its environment in terms of both religious belief (theology) and social behavior (ethics), that is convinced of the truth claims of its faith, and that actively works to win other people to the content of faith and the way of life of whose truth and necessity the members of that community are convinced."

2. The gospel brings people together and keeps people together. This is why we can never stray away from the message of the gospel. Repeatedly in Acts we see that the building up of the church is a function to the word of God increasing.

3. If the mission of the church is to see the church established in cities and regions all over the world, then every church needs to be about planting new churches and establishing churches. God's cosmic intentions are directly tied to the church, so any missional work must be church-connected work (cf Eph 3:10).