Water of Life Fellowship - Vision 2014 - Disturbance
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The 2014 Vision for Water of Life Fellowship in Hampton Roads, VA
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- 2. HRBMC is a Bible-based Church that seeks to love God completely, to love people unconditionally, and to share that love consistently with our Community, so all people may enjoy a growing relationship with God. (Mt. 22:37-39 and Mt. 28:19-20)
- 3. We do this by being a faith-based, cross-centric, spirit-filled, love-saturated, mission-minded, prayer-driven church.
- 4. • Salvation, Sanctification, all spiritual graces and growth are received and achieved through faith. • The Cross is central to all we do and we embrace its extreme calling and message. • Being Spirit-filled powers holy living and genuine community impact. • Saturated with the love of God we believe in living Christ-pleasing lives without judgmental attitudes. • Mission mindedness enables us to be outward-looking and neighbor-reaching in our actions. It is the result of our belief that the power of Christ is sufficient for every earthly need. • Prayer is the engine that sustains and drives us forward as individuals and as a body.
- 5. Growing Our Group Cold Calls Friends of Friends New Friends Core Families
- 6. Ripple the Pond Touch a Life Life Touches Life Lives Touch Our Community
- 13. IDENTITY • We are to be a voice of Holiness [holy hearts and holy living] in Hampton Roads. • We are a Family Centric Church – we love our kids and want them to follow Christ. • We are calling believers to live as authentic Christians in the modern world.
- 17. • Personal Disturbance – As God stirs my heart with His Conviction • Corporate Disturbance – As God stirs us with His Word and Power • Community Disturbance – As we take “rippling the pond” to a new level and make some splashes in the lives of people around us.
- 25. •The Lord Jesus was Magnified (vs 17) •Confession Repentance & Faith were Key (vs 18) •The Word of God grew Mightily (vs 20) •This All Caused a Stir (vs 23)
- 26. • Tarachos – disturbance, tumult, stir • Diegeiro – wake fully, rouse, stir up • Anazopureo – rekindle, stir up
- 30. • • • • ASK IN FAITH SERVE WITH COMPASSION OBEY WITHOUT FALTERING BELIEVE IN CHRIST’S TRANSFORMING POWER
Notes de l'éditeur
- Tonight, I want to review the 2014 Vision with you. This year it is not grandiose in any way. It is simple and has been on my heart since last June. But before we get too deeply into that, let’s look back on the last few years we have spent together.
- In 2012 we strove to form our identity. This is what that looked like:“HRBMC is a Bible-based Church that seeks to love God completely, to love people unconditionally, and to share that love consistently with our Community, so all people may enjoy a growing relationship with God. (Mt. 22:37-39 and Mt. 28:19-20)”
- We do this by being a faith-based, cross-centric, spirit-filled, love-saturated, mission-minded, prayer-driven church.
- And here are some of the things we articulated: Salvation, Sanctification, all spiritual graces and growth are received and achieved through faith.The Cross is central to all we do and we embrace its extreme calling and message.Being Spirit-filled powers holy living and genuine community impact.Saturated with the love of God we believe in living Christ-pleasing lives without judgmental attitudes.Mission mindedness enables us to be outward-looking and neighbor-reaching in our actions. It is the result of our belief that the power of Christ is sufficient for every earthly need.Prayer is the engine that sustains and drives us forward as individuals and as a body.
- We also introduced these ideas:How to Grow our Church
- Rippling the Pond
- In 2012 we also became “Water of Life Fellowship.”
- In 2013 we went to level 2 with a call to deeper living and a deeper walk with God. We were challenged to go deeper individually, as families, and as a church.
- To this end, we did accomplish some of our concrete goals. We began regular weekly men’s prayer meetings, We discipled the Caldwell family, and Phil began his Bible studies.
- We also purchased a web site and video camera which we have not yet used to full potential, but we do have the tools. We have also continued our search for a permanent facility and hope all is going to work out for the one we are now considering.
- As for going deeper with Christ, check out these sermon titles of 2013 and see if they have deepened you and/or your family: PICK 3
- There are plenty of things that may not have happened within our stretchy goals, but some of them are happening and we just have to continue forward doing the hard work of stretching toward those goals. We are called to be faithful. Faithful we must be.
- One other thing is that we have continued to refine our identity and now I feel we are pretty solidified in these things going forward. Doubtless we have room to grow, but I believe these are pretty firm for us. We have continued to refine this and so we now hold as our unique identity:We are to be a voice of Holiness [holy hearts and holy living] in Hampton Roads.We are a Family Centric Church – we love our kids and want them to follow Christ.We are calling believers to live as authentic Christians in the modern world.
- Now let us get down to the business of 2014. Last June I feel God laid on my heart one word: “Disturbance.” Now, I don’t think this is necessarily a negative thing although something unforeseen could be part of it I suppose. At the time I began to feel it on my heart, we didn’t know that we would be leaving our current meeting place and we didn’t know what the future would hold. So, undoubtedly part of the “disturbance” we will experience this year will be due to changing locations and all that will be involved in that as we grow and learn amid that step in our journey. Since we are thinking of that, let me pause for a moment to give you an update:
- Here is the property we are viewing and here is what we are looking at.
- Here is the property we are viewing and here is what we are looking at.
- Now back to the vision for 2014. I desire to continue solidifying our identity, to continue defining our parameters, and to normalize our organizational behaviors at every opportunity. I desire to continue going deeper with Christ as individuals, as families, and as a church body. In addition, this year I want to experience a disturbance in the following manner: Personal Disturbance – As God stirs my heart with His ConvictionCorporate Disturbance – As God stirs us with His Word and PowerCommunity Disturbance – As we take “rippling the pond” to a new level and make some splashes in the lives of people around us.
- For a text I would like to call your attention to Acts chapter 19. This passage tells us of Paul’s arrival and subsequent ministry in the city of Ephesus. Arriving there he found 12 disciples who had been baptized to John’s baptism but had not yet received baptism in the name of the Lord Jesus, nor had they heard of the Holy Spirit. Paul quickly set about to remedy this and soon they had been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus and had received the gift of the Holy Spirit.
- Then Paul spent 3 months in the synagogue of Ephesus debating and proclaiming the Gospel of the Kingdom of God. But finally when this audience would no longer hear him, he separated from the synagogue taking the 12 disciples with him and continued teaching elsewhere. In verse 10 it tells us that Paul did this for the next two years and did it so thoroughly that the Word of Christ was spread abroad through all that region to both Jews and Greeks.
- Paul performed miracles and this got the attention of some Jewish exorcists that thought the name of Jesus was a handy new trick. One of the Jewish priests there had 7 sons which practiced this dubious art
- and they tried to cast out some demons in the name of Jesus quite unsuccessfully.
- The evil spirit leaped upon the impostors claiming that he knew Jesus and he knew Paul, but did not know these seven brothers. This story went abroad among all the population. This is where we will pick it up for our reading tonight in verse 17.
- Acts 19:17-23 - 17 And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified. 18 And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds. 19 Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. 20 So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.
- 21 ¶ After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome. 22 So he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto him, Timotheus and Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for a season. 23 And the same time there arose no small stir about that way.”
- Let us consider four things:The Lord Jesus was Magnified (vs 17)Confession Repentance & Faith were Key (vs 18)The Word of God grew Mightily (vs 20)This All Caused a Stir (vs 23)
- In the New Testament the word for a disturbance as I think of it tonight was the word tarachos which means “disturbance, tumult, or stir.” In the King James Bible, it is interpreted as “stir.” In the Epistles of Peter we see the English word “stir” again but here it comes from another Greek word diegeiro which means “to wake fully, to rouse, to stir up.” And in his second letter to Timothy, we find the word “stir” translated from the Greek word anazopureo which means to “rekindle, to stir up.” All of these meanings are appropriate tonight in our understanding of the idea.
- In 2014 it is my prayer and desire and hope that God will stir us, wake us, rouse us, and rekindle us. By this I mean that I desire for God to stir me to new depths spiritually. I desire that he awaken my spirit to alignment with His that I will be in tune with His desires and goals. I desire that He rouse my focus beyond myself to a vision of Himself and an exercise of His love toward others in a greater measure. I desire that He stir up the fire of His grace and mercy and love in me just as I stir a fire to encourage its flames to grow, I want Him to stir me.
- Then I desire that to splash over onto you. I want my ministry to motivate you, convict you, encourage you, and stir you in your heart to seek the same for your heart and your home.
- And then it is my prayer that it will splash into the lives of people we are touching intentionally in our neighborhoods and communities at a different level this year. I believe God wants to stir us and create a disturbance.
- But this will not happen in a vacuum. If we do not take hold of our purpose and our calling nothing will change. God desires to plant a church in Hampton Roads that demonstrates His love, facilitates His power, calls people to be possessed by His Spirit, strengthens families, and drives all of us deeper with Christ in authentic Christian living. To see this accomplished in us and in our church, we must Ask in Faith, Serve with Compassion, Obey Without Faltering, and Believe In Christ’s Transforming Power. This demands that in 2014 we follow the keys of our passage tonight.
- The Lord Jesus was Magnified (vs 17)For the Lord to be Magnified, we must surrender our lives to His complete control. We must align ourselves with His purposes here in Hampton Roads. We must do the hard work of witnessing, teaching, defending the faith. We must deepen ourselves spiritually and commit ourselves to compassionate action on purpose.
- Confession Repentance & Faith were Key (vs 18)Not only must we confess, repent, and live by faith ourselves, we must disciple others to do the same. These elements are essential to spiritual and literal growth.
- The Word of God grew Mightily (vs 20)Above all else in our personal spirituality, in our witnessing, and in our church persona, the WORD of God must be at our very core. We must imbibe it and learn it and love it and live it. The Word must grow mightily in us and then grow mightily in the lives we touch. Make the Word your focus this year.
- This All Caused a Stir (vs 23) And if we magnify the Lord Jesus, live holy lives, and consecrate the Word every day, God will cause a disturbance in our lives and in our church, and in our community.
- That’s the Vision for 2014. It’s not complex. But it demands our full commitment. Will you join me for a disturbance in 2014? Will you commit to making a splash for Christ?