Sermon Notes
ALIVE Wesleyan Church exists to reach spiritually hungry people and introduce them to a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and an active role in the Christian community.
Meet God
Grow in faith
Make a difference
Matthew 4:19
“Come, follow Me [Meet God], and I will make [Grow in Faith] you fishers of men [Make a Difference].”
It is “in God “where we find transformation
Mark 3:13-14
Jesus went up on a mountainside and called to him those he wanted, and they came to him. He appointed twelvethat they might be with him and that he might send them out to preach.
Matthew 28:17-20
Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely, I am with you always, to the very end of the age."
“Often we will expend amazing amounts of energy and resources to be in the world for God, but, you see, we are called to be in God for the world”
—Dr Robert Mulholland, Jr.
John 14:15-16
If you love me, keep my commands. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever
John 14:12
Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.
John 20:21
“Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.”
Presence always precedes proclamation
Luke 5:29-31
Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them. But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
Mark 10:45
The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Luke 19:10
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.
Luke 7:34
The Son of Man came eating and drinking
“If every Christian family in the world simply offered good conversational hospitality around their table once a week to neighbors we would eat our way into the kingdom of God”
—Alan Hurst
Fruitfulness is God's responsibility. Faithfulness is ours
Acts 1:8
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.