Equipped to Go: Scattered Disciples Advance God's Kingdom

And the way that happens is not when the preacher gets up and gets better at preaching and studies harder and does all the things and and he does a better job, great, got the best preacher in the world. None of that makes a difference if the people of God not equipped to do the work of God. Because if you're not equipped to the to do the work of God, then the church of God cannot advance the kingdom of God. [01:04:41] (22 seconds)  #EquipThePeople

See, Saul thinks, man, if I can just get these people to run off, if I can scare them enough, if I can kill enough of them, then they'll quit this deal. And the the thing that he did not understand is that when you are are passionate for Christ, no matter where you go, you're gonna take Christ with you. [01:14:51] (15 seconds)  #TakeChristEverywhere

If you in our world today burned down a church, The next day, there's gonna be a group of people standing on the property where that church was and they're gonna be scraping up ashes and some dudes got a guitar and some girls leading and we're singing and we're worshiping our God around a burned down church. That's what passionate Christ followers are gonna do. [01:11:22] (22 seconds)  #WorshipBeyondWalls

We get our family together. Yeah. Singles, you can call your friends, families. It don't matter. You come together with your brothers and sisters in Christ. We do whatever we gotta do. We're praying over homes we're living in. We're praying over our lives. We're praying over who we're gonna be one day. We're praying over husbands and wives now. We're praying over children. We're praying because that is where the enemy wants to attack us is tear apart our families. [01:14:16] (20 seconds)  #PrayForFamilies

That's your job at your workplace. That's your job at your school. That's your job when you go home for the summer, and that is your role. That is what we are called to do is take the gospel from where we are to the places around us. It's exactly what we see in this passage. So three questions for you today. Are you willing to be equipped? [01:18:45] (20 seconds)  #TakeGospelWhereYouAre

Paul is teaching in Ephesians and the people of Ephesus. He's talking to that church and that crowd and is teaching them that that the leadership are not the ones that are supposed to be out doing all the ministry. The leadership, the the ones given as the leaders of the church body are to prepare all of God's people to go and do what they are built and called to do. [01:00:19] (22 seconds)  #LeadershipEnablesMinistry

And here's what it says. It says when the apostles prayed over these men, anointed them, and sent them out to do the ministry, the church began to grow. And we have to learn something from that. We have to understand that there's a reason why once they sent them out, then from that point forward, the story is no longer about the apostles. [01:01:54] (27 seconds)  #SendingSparksGrowth

What says they preach the gospel, they were taking the gospel into the grocery stores, into the gas stations, all the places, all places that they went. Everywhere they went, they took Jesus Christ with them. And what Saul had to be just blown away by is, man, I've gotten these people. They're scattered all over the place. And then he begins to find out, wow, they won't shut up. [01:15:06] (23 seconds)  #UnstoppableWitness