Title: What's Next? (7)
Series: Follow Me: The Story of Discipleship
Author: Tim Badal
Text: Matthew 11:25-30
We're between two series. We just finished "Follow Me" last week; then our new series kicking off in September will be "Rediscover Church." We're going to learn why church is so important. After Covid and all the turmoil it brought not only to our lives, but to churches as well, I think a lot of us have forgotten the real importance church has. We've forgotten why we do this thing called church. What's the spiritual significance? What does it mean for me? What am I part of when I "do" church?
So this fall, we're going to study what it means to be a part of the church and why the church is so necessary to our lives. But before we do, we have a couple weeks between these series. I don't know if it was Pastor Phil's message about "The Rest of the Story," but I felt like it was important for us to talk about "What's Next." When I talk about what's next on the heels of studying and learning from the lives of the disciples and how they followed Christ-the mistakes they made and the great strides they made toward being faithful to Jesus-it begs the question: how do we follow Jesus? Here in the 20th century, in middle America, what does following Jesus involve for us? It's easy to look at others from afar and say, "Yeah, I get it, but what about us?" Are we following Jesus to the fullest extent God commands us to. Right away, we think of discipleship as an internal thing. "How am I doing with following Christ?" That's part of it. We should be examining our lives and asking, "Am I truly following Christ?"
But to be a follower of Christ means we are involved in the same ministry Jesus was. Our title for the summer has been "Follow Me." Jesus spoke these words numerous times. In fact, He told some of His first disciples, "Follow Me and.." What's next? "I will make you fishers of men. I will use you. I will equip you. I'm going to encourage you, not to ke ...
Series: Follow Me: The Story of Discipleship
Author: Tim Badal
Text: Matthew 11:25-30
We're between two series. We just finished "Follow Me" last week; then our new series kicking off in September will be "Rediscover Church." We're going to learn why church is so important. After Covid and all the turmoil it brought not only to our lives, but to churches as well, I think a lot of us have forgotten the real importance church has. We've forgotten why we do this thing called church. What's the spiritual significance? What does it mean for me? What am I part of when I "do" church?
So this fall, we're going to study what it means to be a part of the church and why the church is so necessary to our lives. But before we do, we have a couple weeks between these series. I don't know if it was Pastor Phil's message about "The Rest of the Story," but I felt like it was important for us to talk about "What's Next." When I talk about what's next on the heels of studying and learning from the lives of the disciples and how they followed Christ-the mistakes they made and the great strides they made toward being faithful to Jesus-it begs the question: how do we follow Jesus? Here in the 20th century, in middle America, what does following Jesus involve for us? It's easy to look at others from afar and say, "Yeah, I get it, but what about us?" Are we following Jesus to the fullest extent God commands us to. Right away, we think of discipleship as an internal thing. "How am I doing with following Christ?" That's part of it. We should be examining our lives and asking, "Am I truly following Christ?"
But to be a follower of Christ means we are involved in the same ministry Jesus was. Our title for the summer has been "Follow Me." Jesus spoke these words numerous times. In fact, He told some of His first disciples, "Follow Me and.." What's next? "I will make you fishers of men. I will use you. I will equip you. I'm going to encourage you, not to ke ...
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