by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 28, 2022 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, The World, Witness
What is the mission of the church? What is its purpose? Why does it exist? The church itself was seen in the Epistles to be God’s new society, the new community, the new creation of God. The very existence of the church, with the new life its members were living, was...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 27, 2022 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, The World, Witness
Our mission is described in the Acts of the Apostles as establishing the Kingdom of the Spirit of Jesus. First of all, there is The Promise of the Spirit in Acts 1. The main topics of our Lord’s instruction during the forty days between his resurrection and his...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 25, 2022 | Bible, Church, Faith, Healing, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Suffering, The World, Witness
The Great Commission has five versions. The most pregnant and the most neglected is John 20:19-23. The essence of Christ’s message is verse 21, ‘I send you.’ Jesus possesses universal authority to send all his disciples into the world. The nature of the mission is,...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 24, 2022 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, The World, Witness
Before The Purpose Driven Life, Rick Warren held conferences on The Purpose Driven Church, one of which I attended in Houston. There is often confusion about our mission. What are we about – our purpose? What is our message? When I arrived at the Chapel in 2000 I...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 17, 2022 | Faith, God, Healing, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Prayer, Suffering, The World, Worship
Prayers in time of war. Lord, God, of infinite mercy, we pray that you would look in compassion upon those now involved in war. Pardon our offences, our pride and arrogance, our self-sufficiency and forgetfulness of you. Give wisdom to leaders, courage and endurance...
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