Core| Real Purpose | Sept 3
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Core Week 4: Real Purpose (Doing Flows from Being)
1 Corinthians 9:19-23
September 3rd 2023
A Church represents…
An environment in which to grow spiritually. (Fresh Starts)
A people of whom to belong relationally. (Great Friends)
A purpose in which to pursue jointly. (Real Purpose)
The Purpose of Consistently Teaching Core
Vision Leaks.
Mission Creeps.
Healthy Grows
Ministry Approach: Shepherd (John 10)
Ministry Target… “I came so that they might have real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever dreamed of.” John 10:10 Message
Ministry Mission: Lead people to fresh starts, great friends and a real purpose in Christ.
Ministry Vision: To become the most spiritually influential people and place by renewing the world around us through a relationship with Christ.
Spiritual Influence Defined: the impact of moving someone one step closer to Christ as a result of your connection or interaction.
Causes are short lived, “doing based” band-aids to our need for identity and significance. Causes are short-lived and doing based. Significance is found in discovering your Real Purpose. A Real Purpose is lifelong and anchored in our identity in Christ! Real purpose doing flows from real purpose being.
Satan Sells Self Over God
Self-Achievement – identity/significance is wrapped in personal accomplishments. I am what I accomplish. What I achieve determines my identity and value.
Self-Attainment – identity/significance is wrapped in personal accruements. I am what I have. What I have been able to attain determines my identity and value.
Self-Determination – identity/significance is wrapped in personal freedom and drive. I find my identity and value by being in control of my own destiny.
Satan & Self Can’t Deliver
Self-Achievement doesn’t produce wholeness it just covers up our brokenness.
Self-Attainment doesn’t produce security only a false sense of security.
Self-Determination doesn’t produce control – control is an illusion.
Matthew 28:18 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely, I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
Acts 1:8 “When the Holy Spirit comes on you, you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and to the ends of the world.”
Becoming is an internal transformational process.
God’s plan is for you to think of yourself as His son or daughter – known by Him, loved by Him, transformed by Him and re-purposed by Him! Your identity impacts living out your real purpose. Our purpose doing flows from our purpose being!
God’s transformation and engagement of ordinary people to carry out His story is His purpose filled plan.
2 Timothy 4:1-5 AMP
I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: 2 preach the word [as an official messenger]; be ready when the time is right and even when it is not [keep your sense of urgency, whether the opportunity seems favorable or unfavorable, whether convenient or inconvenient, whether welcome or unwelcome]; correct [those who err in doctrine or behavior], warn [those who sin], exhort and encourage [those who are growing toward spiritual maturity], with inexhaustible patience and [faithful] teaching. 3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God’s truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold, 4 and will turn their ears away from the truth and will wander off into myths and man-made fictions [and will accept the unacceptable]. 5 But as for you, be clear-headed in every situation [stay calm and cool and steady], endure every hardship [without flinching], do the work of an evangelist, fulfill [the duties of] your ministry.
Corinthians 9:19-23 (The Message) Even though I am free of the demands and expectations of everyone, I have voluntarily become a servant to any and all in order to reach a wide range of people: religious, nonreligious, meticulous moralists, loose-living immoralists, the defeated, the demoralized—whoever. I didn't take on their way of life. I kept my bearings in Christ—but I entered their world and tried to experience things from their point of view. I've become just about every sort of servant there is in my attempts to lead those I meet into a God-saved life. I did all this because of the Message. I didn't just want to talk about it; I wanted to be in on it!
Purpose Doing Process
Be present in service.
Be consistent in Christ. “I didn’t take on their way of life. I kept my bearing in Christ.”
Be bold in movement. “I didn’t just want to talk about it; I wanted to be in on it!”