Pentecost: Embracing Our Global Mission in Christ
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "James 1 26 says that if you claim to be religious, but you don't control what you post on social media, you're fooling yourself and your religion's worthless. Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you." [18:04]
2. "The answer is who's ever in front of you who's in need. That's who. That's who your neighbor is. Person had their clothes taken from them. You can't tell which religious or ethnic community they're a part of. This person is unconscious, can't speak, so you can't hear the accent to give you any details of where this person's from, right? How bad was he beaten up, covered in blood? You can't tell what community they're a part of. It's just an image bearer." [22:32]
3. "Do for one what you wish you could do for everyone. Save a life. Save the whole world. Start with the most vulnerable." [25:33]
4. "You can't do everything, but you can do something. I asked Guy at Compassion if he would, if he wanted us to focus in on one particular region. And the places where we've done work in the past, building medical clinics in Congo and things like that, there wasn't any immediate work there that made sense for us for this timing. And so I said, well, then would you just give us the folks that have been waiting? Give us the kids that have been waiting, the longest." [40:43]
### Quotes for Members
1. "And this in so many ways is what's happening at Pentecost. And this also is this coming together of these two temples. You've got the temple that Herod had built in Jerusalem where Jesus' disciples had worshiped like the rest of the Israelites. But now there's also Jesus' temple, which consists of people. We are called the temple. The temple is meeting together in homes all over Jerusalem. And they're approaching life in a radical new way in the book of Acts." [09:57]
2. "Their allegiance now to Jesus as king bonded tribe, different tribes and different tongues and different cultures together. And of all the things they were doing, caring for one another, providing for one another, worshiping together, listening to God together, they were on mission together." [09:57]
3. "The gospel actually has gone out to the nations. And in fact, in places where you might have a harder time identifying where the local church is because it's persecuted, it's in those places right now, statistically, that the church is exploding. Exploding. There is something beautiful about knowing that not only are we matching breath as we sing about the goodness of God here this morning, but if we could lock everybody into the same time zone, there are millions around the world singing of that same goodness." [08:15]
4. "When Christians get power and money, there have been absolutely moments where it has gaffed things up. Jesus literally warns about this, our leader. It's really hard to enter the kingdom of God. It's really hard to enter the kingdom of God when there's money and power involved. But when we've done that and stewarded that well for the most part, the reason why the most generous group in the United States of America is evangelical Christians." [29:51]
5. "To give without sacrifice, we read, is to walk the way of death. To give without sacrifice is the way of the world that cannot abide in the church. And so I just ask you, would you be willing to step up and lift the kid out of poverty today and partner with him?" [45:06]
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1. "James 1 26 says that if you claim to be religious, but you don't control what you post on social media, you're fooling yourself and your religion's worthless. Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you." [18:04]
2. "The answer is who's ever in front of you who's in need. That's who. That's who your neighbor is. Person had their clothes taken from them. You can't tell which religious or ethnic community they're a part of. This person is unconscious, can't speak, so you can't hear the accent to give you any details of where this person's from, right? How bad was he beaten up, covered in blood? You can't tell what community they're a part of. It's just an image bearer." [22:32]
3. "Do for one what you wish you could do for everyone. Save a life. Save the whole world. Start with the most vulnerable." [25:33]
4. "You can't do everything, but you can do something. I asked Guy at Compassion if he would, if he wanted us to focus in on one particular region. And the places where we've done work in the past, building medical clinics in Congo and things like that, there wasn't any immediate work there that made sense for us for this timing. And so I said, well, then would you just give us the folks that have been waiting? Give us the kids that have been waiting, the longest." [40:43]
### Quotes for Members
1. "And this in so many ways is what's happening at Pentecost. And this also is this coming together of these two temples. You've got the temple that Herod had built in Jerusalem where Jesus' disciples had worshiped like the rest of the Israelites. But now there's also Jesus' temple, which consists of people. We are called the temple. The temple is meeting together in homes all over Jerusalem. And they're approaching life in a radical new way in the book of Acts." [09:57]
2. "Their allegiance now to Jesus as king bonded tribe, different tribes and different tongues and different cultures together. And of all the things they were doing, caring for one another, providing for one another, worshiping together, listening to God together, they were on mission together." [09:57]
3. "The gospel actually has gone out to the nations. And in fact, in places where you might have a harder time identifying where the local church is because it's persecuted, it's in those places right now, statistically, that the church is exploding. Exploding. There is something beautiful about knowing that not only are we matching breath as we sing about the goodness of God here this morning, but if we could lock everybody into the same time zone, there are millions around the world singing of that same goodness." [08:15]
4. "When Christians get power and money, there have been absolutely moments where it has gaffed things up. Jesus literally warns about this, our leader. It's really hard to enter the kingdom of God. It's really hard to enter the kingdom of God when there's money and power involved. But when we've done that and stewarded that well for the most part, the reason why the most generous group in the United States of America is evangelical Christians." [29:51]
5. "To give without sacrifice, we read, is to walk the way of death. To give without sacrifice is the way of the world that cannot abide in the church. And so I just ask you, would you be willing to step up and lift the kid out of poverty today and partner with him?" [45:06]
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