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Pastor Craig led our series study in the Book of Acts, Activating God’s People, entitling today’s sermon Original Intent from Acts 9:1-19. He shared that today our Original Intent is to know God, meet with Him daily, and witness for Him. Our Original Intent is nourished within daily time spent with Him to activate our daily assignment for the specific person He has planned for us to interact with.
Pastor Craig said that Jesus wanted this individual Saul despite his persecution of believers. Ananias heard from God to go to Saul. He asked reflectively: “imagine if you received a text from Jesus to go to a specific person at a specific address of ministry. Would you?
Ask God daily for His personal assignment for that specific day. Ask Him for the person He wants you to connect with through person to person contact, or in texts of encouragement, or email/phone calls. Will you ask God for His assignment for you?
Pastor Doug delivered our sermon from the Book of Acts within our series Activating God’s People from Acts 8:26-40. Today’s sermon is entitled Acting on God’s Assignments. Faith is activated when we do what we couldn’t do before.
Philip received an assignment from God through an angel. The assignment was to meet an Ethiopian eunuch who was returning home to Ethiopia. God Assignments become more specific in accordance with our obedience. Pastor Doug shared that assignments and obedience are God’s formula in the activation process. Obedience leads to the next assignment.
He also said that FEAR prevents progression in our God Assignment. FEAR is disobedience manifested. He stated, “Willingness and Obedience breaks FEAR.” Pastor Doug contrasted FEAR and DISOBEDIENCE with OBEDIENCE and IDENTITY in CHRIST. God Assignments are begun and ended by God.
Pastor Craig preached in our series Activating God’s People. Today’s sermon is entitled The Shake Up. He reviewed chapters 1-7 of Acts which lasted about 4-5 years of time, then focused on Acts 8:1-25.
Pastor Craig emphasized that despite the early church being filled by the Holy Spirit, it was not yet activated to God’s Plan to be witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. He shared that fear and prejudice was a prevailing cultural attribute in the early church which prevented its activation assignment.
Because of God’s shake up in the church at Jerusalem, and how it fled the city into the surrounding areas the Good News about Jesus was shared. Despite our fear and or prejudice God’s Plan is for the Gospel to be taken to the nations. Pastor Craig observed that Jesus’ goal is to break fear and prejudice from having a predominant influence over our lives.
Pastor Doug opened our Communion Sunday sermon from The Book of Acts 6:1-15 in the Activating God’s People series. Today’s sermon is entitled “Ministry of the Spirit.” In Acts 6, the Jewish community had created a food distribution system to benefit those who experienced lack of resources such as food. Our church contemporary Food Bank concept has a similar goal.
Pastor Doug shared that today as well as during the time period, serving was meant to be a VERB, not a NOUN. He pointed out that Stephen’s impact on people was spectacularly received but opposed by the Sanhedrin.
Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit and empowered through His Presence, gave a defense to the Jewish Sanhedrin that could not be countered due to the presence of the Holy Spirit. Pastor Doug pointed out that opposition in these verses is also part of God working in the story in Chapter 6.