The Glory of God in the Gospel of God, What does it all mean?
Preached by Pastor Michael Gunn on June 29th, 2008
What is the Church? Why does the Church exist? What is the Church supposed to do? The Church is the Body of Christ nurturing the community within by the transforming power of the Gospel of Christ and sharing that work with those that are called outside the buildings walls.
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The Glory of God in the Gospel of God, Reading the Cultural Texts Around Us
Preached by Pastor Michael Gunn on June 22nd, 2008
How does the gospel best move into a culture? Is it through power and influence, or is it through an informed band of believers living out their life on every level of human culture? How can we be involved with culture and engage it intelligently, without falling into the mechanisms and world systems that ultimately destroy it? How does the gospel story intersect the human one? Only by reading the culture, can we answer that question.
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The Glory of God in the Gospel of God, How Has the Culture Shaped the Gospel?
Preached by Pastor Michael Gunn on June 15th, 2008
We are called to be ambassadors of the Gospel of Christ to the culture by using the culture to illustrate it as Paul did to the Gentiles but we should not let the culture shape God's Gospel or our theology. The worldviews and philosophies within a culture often shape us without us knowing it. God gives Adam and Eve a clear story, yet they chose to believe in another “Has God said…?” (Genesis 3:1). It is this restructuring toward our own desire to be god that shapes the gospel we preach.
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The Glory of God in the Gospel of God, How Does the Gospel Lead Us? Rhythms
Preached by Pastor Jeff Vanderstelt on June 8th, 2008
We are blessed to have Jeff Vanderstelt return and speak again to our congregation on how we are shaped by the Holy Spirit through the Gospel to be missional to our communities in our everyday lives, rhythms.
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The Glory of God in the Gospel of God, How Does the Gospel Shape Us? Identities
Preached by Pastor Jeff Vanderstelt on June 1st, 2008
We are blessed to have Jeff Vanderstelt speak to our congregation on how the Gospel, through the Holy Spirit, shapes us through our submission to Christ.
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The Glory of God in the Gospel of God, What is the Gospel?
Preached by Pastor Michael Gunn on May 25th, 2008
What the Gospel
is not:
1.The Gospel is Not Therapy
2.The Gospel is Not Law/Moralism
3.The Gospel is Not “Self Discovery”
4.The Gospel is Not “Enlightenment”
5.The Gospel is Not Social Restructuring/Nationalism
The Gospel
is God’s “Good News” of His in-breaking into human culture in order to justify and save His people (Through the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ), and establish His kingdom/Lordship (Through the establishment of His Church) to the glory of His name.
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The Glory of God in the Gospel of God, Why Does the Church Exist?
Preached by Pastor Michael Gunn on May 18th, 2008
The church is not something we go to, but it is our identity, in that it is the body we are baptized into. The church is the vehicle for the proclamation of the gospel of God’s glory, which is accomplished as the gospel forms the community, and the community embodies the gospel in the midst of the nations. Subsequently any promulgation of the gospel must include both the “Proclamation” and the “Presence” of that gospel. We proclaim the truth of the resurrection power, and then we become witnesses to its power in the life of the church.
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The Glory of God in the calling of Motherhood
Preached by Michael Ly on May 11th, 2008
Mother's Day is a special day in our culture where we honor mother's of the past, present and future, and the impact they have had in our lives. We live in a culture where mothers are not valued in the way God intends them to be valued. We will see that the Scriptures have much to say about the significance that mothers have in the redemptive story of God.
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