About the SeriesHave you ever asked yourself or someone else any of the following questions:
What are you looking for in a church? What type of church do you want to attend? What is most important to you when looking for a church?
These are the questions you have likely pondered one time or another. And while we know that there is no perfect church, many of us are still on a quest to find the “right” church. But what does that actually mean? Are we looking for a Biblical model of church?
Or are we searching for a specific ideal church we’ve conjured up through our experiences and time? For the duration of this series, you will be asked to re-examine everything you believe about the church so as to properly define it’s true purpose.
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Rethinking the ChurchPASSAGE: ROMANS 15:1-6
April 28, 2019 // Pastor Thomas Anderson, Jr. READ PASSAGE
1 We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. 3 For Christ did not please himself, but as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.” 4 For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. 5 May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, 6 that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. |
Rethinking Church LeadershipPASSAGE: 1 PETER 5:1-5
May 5, 2019 // Pastor Thomas Anderson, Jr. READ PASSAGE
1 I exhort the elders among you as a fellow elder and witness to the sufferings of Christ, as well as one who shares in the glory about to be revealed: 2 Shepherd God’s flock among you, not overseeing out of compulsion but willingly, as God would have you; not out of greed for money but eagerly; 3 not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock. 4 And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory. 5 In the same way, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. All of you clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. |
Rethinking DiscipleshipPASSAGES: MARK 8:34-38; 12:30-32
May 12, 2019 // Pastor Thomas Anderson, Jr. READ PASSAGE
CHAPTER 8
34 Calling the crowd along with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone wants to follow after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. 35 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me and the gospel will save it. 36 For what does it benefit someone to gain the whole world and yet lose his life? 37 What can anyone give in exchange for his life? 38 For whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.” CHAPTER 12 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. 31 The second is, love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other command greater than these.” 32 Then the scribe said to him, “You are right, teacher. You have correctly said that he is one, and there is no one else except him. |
Rethinking Church MinistryPASSAGE: 2 CORINTHIANS 5:14-21
May 19, 2019 // Pastor Thomas Anderson, Jr. READ PASSAGE
14 For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; 15 and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised. 16 From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 18 All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. 20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. |
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