DNA Of a Dangerous Church - Launch Week 04
Welcome
Welcome to Week One of the DNA of a Dangerous Church Reading Plan! This reading plan is designed to partner with Compassion Christian Church’s sermon series of the same name, which you can find information about right here.
Before We Start
A unique aspect of the Christian faith is Jesus' teaching that those who followed Him would become a completely new community, a new family, a new Kingdom of people unlike any other on earth. A people whose identity would be rooted in their love for God and others. People of every nation, regardless of race, nationality, language and socioeconomic background. None worthy, all loved, all united by Jesus. Pastor Marcus Johnson shared in his opening sermon for this series that, “There are those in our world who look at the church and stifle a yawn, but the heavenly beings, who have existed from the beginning, they look at this and gasp in wonder… and then they shudder in fear”. In this series we’re going to explore the characteristics of the church, and the practices of every devoted disciple of Jesus, that make us the beautiful, dangerous force that God is using to change the world.
Looking Ahead
Marcus closed out our series by encouraging us all to live out our faith in Christ by serving in and outside of the church. One of the best ways to grow in your relationship with Christ is with others while you are serving together. You do not need to know all of the answers or have your life together. In finishing up some of Paul’s letters to the churches this week, we will see that he talks about the former life we lived and the new life we should live. The attributes he talks about are the way we should live and serve daily. So, as we finish our series, let's take a few minutes to watch this video for a helpful overview of Paul’s letter to the church in Colossae:
Philippians
Here is a list of this week's verses:
Monday, September 2 - Philippians 4
Tuesday, September 3 - Colossians 1
Wednesday, September 4 - Colossians 2
Thursday, September 5 - Colossians 3
Friday, September 6 - Colossians 4
Welcome to Week One of the DNA of a Dangerous Church Reading Plan! This reading plan is designed to partner with Compassion Christian Church’s sermon series of the same name, which you can find information about right here.
Before We Start
A unique aspect of the Christian faith is Jesus' teaching that those who followed Him would become a completely new community, a new family, a new Kingdom of people unlike any other on earth. A people whose identity would be rooted in their love for God and others. People of every nation, regardless of race, nationality, language and socioeconomic background. None worthy, all loved, all united by Jesus. Pastor Marcus Johnson shared in his opening sermon for this series that, “There are those in our world who look at the church and stifle a yawn, but the heavenly beings, who have existed from the beginning, they look at this and gasp in wonder… and then they shudder in fear”. In this series we’re going to explore the characteristics of the church, and the practices of every devoted disciple of Jesus, that make us the beautiful, dangerous force that God is using to change the world.
Looking Ahead
Marcus closed out our series by encouraging us all to live out our faith in Christ by serving in and outside of the church. One of the best ways to grow in your relationship with Christ is with others while you are serving together. You do not need to know all of the answers or have your life together. In finishing up some of Paul’s letters to the churches this week, we will see that he talks about the former life we lived and the new life we should live. The attributes he talks about are the way we should live and serve daily. So, as we finish our series, let's take a few minutes to watch this video for a helpful overview of Paul’s letter to the church in Colossae:
Philippians
Here is a list of this week's verses:
Monday, September 2 - Philippians 4
Tuesday, September 3 - Colossians 1
Wednesday, September 4 - Colossians 2
Thursday, September 5 - Colossians 3
Friday, September 6 - Colossians 4
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