GOSPEL :: FAMILY :: MISSION
I love listening to preachers.
It’s been this way for me since I began following Jesus seventeen years ago.
My dad (affectionally known to me as Papa) was the one who fanned this love for preaching into a roaring fire when he encouraged me to listen to a local radio station with back to back preachers.
Something I struggle with is putting my feelings on paper.
I’ve always thought I was a good verbal processor when it comes to my feelings.
That might be true.
Last week we talked about reconciliation. This week we are going to talk about mortification. Mortification means to put off or put to death the works of the flesh. It means the battle against sin.
Last week we talked about forgiveness. This week we are going to talk about reconciliation. Reconciliation means to make things right with people we have sinned against. But reconciliation is both scary and hard because relational stuff is gritty.
Our mission and vision at The Well is to be a gospel centered church family of gospel communities that grow missionally engaged disciples who glorify God. Three words. Gospel… Family… Mission. Those three words are the summarizing focus or values of our mission statement here as we plant The Well. And that mission and vision is rooted and inspired by what we see God doing in and through the life, the death and the resurrection of Jesus in the gospels on the one hand and then what we see the Holy Spirit doing in and through the early church in the book of Acts.
Last week we talked about grace. This week we are going to talk about forgiveness. True change in our lives is a radical act of God’s grace. The process for experiencing that change then, requires that we humble ourselves and learn to receive his grace. But we will never be able to fully receive and experience grace until we are able to extend grace to others.
Our plan over the summer is to devote six weeks of preaching through a sermon series called The People of The Well. What we want to do is anchor ourselves to two texts that have heavily influenced the ethos of who we are. So we’ll spend the first three weeks in Acts 2:42 – 47 as we examine the work of God in and through the early church. And then we’ll take a break over the month of July for some guest preachers. And then we’ll resume our series in August with the final 3 weeks focusing on Jesus’ interaction with the woman at the well in John 4:5 – 42.
Last week we talked about what it means to commit to serving God as our master rather than our sinful desires and behaviors. This week we are going to talk about God’s grace and how it applies to our growth in holiness.
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