In this message, we will explore our current condition as a local church. I will share our worship schedule, our current involvement in ministry and our health as a body. This sermon will serve as a “State of the Body” address. Prayerfully, we will take note of our challenges and the Holy Spirit’s presence in our body to meet and overcome our challenges in the name of Jesus.
In this sermon, we will briefly speak about our story as a church including our identification with the A cappella churches of Christ and the story of the Reynoldsburg church in the city of Reynoldsburg. In order to know where we are going, it may be important to know where we’ve been.
Relationships run on the currency of time and conversation. Same goes for our relationship with God.
There is constant temptation to fall into the ways of the world, or to assimilate in such a way that goes counter to what God wants.
During difficult times of trial, persecution and harassment, Simon encourages the church community to lean on their relationships with one another.
It is important for us to see ourselves as partners with God in the transformation of the world. We have the honor of bringing more good to our world.
Trying to be like someone else is not uncommon. Actually being someone else is impossible. But that's exactly what Peter tells us to do.. to be Jesus.
You ARE God's special people. You are his possession, a people he calls his own. You don't have to walk around feeling rejected and dejected. You belong to him.
What does holiness mean? Is it a function of our shifting culture? Or is it a defining attribute of God that we need to observe and experience, and let it change us more and more into the likeness of Jesus?
"Exiles and strangers" are words often used to describe the current condition of Jesus' followers. We often feel like outsiders, or like things are strange. It should be that way. We may live here, but our true home and citizenship is found in a totally different place.
The Holy Spirit was poured out on the church on Pentecost - celebrated today throughout the world - and is still poured out on the church today, as evidenced in a small part by the work done at Central Ohio Work Camp 2019.