Morningside Uniting Church is a Missional Church - a podcast by David Won kim

Summary of today’s message (19/2/2017)

Luke 5:1~11, Matthew 28:19~20, Acts 1:8Morningside Uniting Church is 1)biblical, 2)evangelical, 3)missional, and 4)multi-generational. Today let us identify ourselves as missional.
An American preacher Bill Hybels keeps saying,“Local church is the hope of the world.”I know why he says it because“We are the God-sent people in this world.”Indeed, we are the people who have been sent by God into the world as witnesses and ambassadors of the Good News, and as custodians of God’s creation, so we must be aware that we have ownership over everything we do for the glory of God because we belong to the body of Christ.
Peter, James, John, and other fishermen had many years of knowledge and experience. They knew how to catch fish. But on this particular day, they did not catch any fish at all, but they met Jesus for the first time. Jesus was teaching people from Peter’s boat, so obviously Peter heard what Jesus told people about: God, heaven, salvation, healing, and more teachings. After listening to his teaching, when Jesus directed Peter and others fishermen on the same boat to throw the nets into deep water, Peter said“We worked all night long and caught nothing, But because you says so, we will throw our nets into deep water again.”And the fruits of their obedience to Jesus was overflowing and abundant. So as a missional church let’s say,“But because you say so”we will go for your glory and to your people.
A friend of mine always emphasises on two commitments all Christians must make, 1)Intimacy with Christ, and 2) Total submission to Christ! Intimacy with Christ means we read the Bible because we truly and faithfully believe and accept it as the living word of God for us. According to Luke, Peter listened to Jesus teachings on the same boat, after that he called Jesus,‘Master.’My point is this the more and the longer time we spend with Jesus, which means reading the Bible and praying to God, The more and the longer we do that, the closer intimacy we have with Jesus as well. Look at Peter, he called this stranger‘Master.’This means he truly believed what Jesus taught on the day. So he said,“But because you say so.”Total submission to Christ! (dk)

Weekly Reading (20/2 ~ 26/2)- Mon (20/2) Joshua 4:1~9 - Tue (21/2) Exodus 12:1~20
- Wed (22/2) Leviticus 23:1~44 - Thu (23/2) Numbers 9:1~14- Fri (24/2) 2 Kings 23:1~30 - Sat (25/2) Deuteronomy 16:1~17
- Sun (26/2) Joshua 4:1~9, Exodus 12:1~20, Matthew 1: 17 (1~16), Joel 2:28

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