Episode 135: Target Practice

Episode 135: Target Practice

 

1 Peter 2:9-12

 

9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. -- 1 Peter 2:9-10 (CSB)

 

Does your church have a target problems

1. A floating target?

• Following fads 
• Constantly redefining the target

 

2. The wrong target?

• Shooting at a metric that Jesus didn’t
• Bodies, Baptisms and Budgets

 

3. No target?

• Not intentional
• If you aim at nothing - you will hit it every time

 

4. The target

• The church exists for one timeless purpose- to glorify God by making disciples

 

3  identities on the target

1. We are worshippers. Vs 5 and 9

             

 

2. We are family

              Not just as individuals but collectively

              “One another” is used over 70 times in scripture

              We are sharing life together

 

3. We are missionaries to everyone else

             Vs 11-12

Our identity fuels us   And directs us