The Lord’s Prayer

Worship at Church of the Resurrection by Adam Hamilton (3/16/2008)

Lord’s Prayer

  • Meant to shape our spiritual life 

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen

 Doxology

Thine Is

  • giving up reliance on self

The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory

  • Recognize sovereignty of God - God is King
  • Recognize that all things belong to God
  • Recognize that we are powerless if we don’t call on God
  • Acknowledge realm of God

Forever

  • Nothing in our earthly lives lasts forever
  • God promises that his kingdom will last forever

Amen — So be it

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Success of Church

Worship at Newspring by Clayton King (3/16/2008)

  • Vision — Winning people to Christ
  • Key to Ministry — Preaching the Word

Mark 2: 1-12

  1. The stakes have never been higher
    • People’s souls have value
    • Someone has to bring people to the place they can experience the Gospel
    • World is crippled by sin & selfishness; by the effects of sin
  2. Must regain sense of urgency
    • Do we really believe that the Gospel can heal and save?
    • Be willing to do whatever it takes: i.e. coaxing with food
    • If don’t have a sense of urgency then you might as well quit because you are just a spectator. One can spectate for a while but have to catch onto vision — winning people to Christ
    • Are we too content on our own salvation that we forget about others?
  3. God honors our faith and blesses our effort
    • God is sovereign & in complete control BUT
    • God demands action from us (outcome always good whenever someone was brought to Jesus in Gospel)
    • What efforts do we make to get people to God?
    • Until we are so desperate to see our friends come to Christ we’ll never take our hands and get them dirty to bring our friends to Christ — we may have to carry our friends to Jesus
    • We may have to destroy established structures to get our friends to Christ — are we willing to give up our traditions, our customs or our mindset?

Whatever It Takes

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