Partnering With Jesus to Change the World
March 11, 2007
VCNP Leadership Meeting March 2007
Speaker: Brian T. Anderson
- Introduction
- Matt. 28:18-20 (NAS) 18And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.19“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,20teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
- I Chron. 12:32a (NAS) 2Of the sons of Issachar, men who understood the times, with knowledge of what Israel should do.
- Matt. 16:3b (NLT) You are good at reading the weather signs in the sky, but you can’t read the obvious signs of the times!
- Partnering With Jesus to Change the World
- Focus on Cities .
- The ministry of the early Christians was entirely city - centric .
- Diversity and Ethnicity is discovered in the city.
- Jer. 29:11 (NAS) ‘For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.’
- Jer. 29:4-7 (NAS) 4“Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon, 5‘Build houses and live in them; and plant gardens and eat their produce.6Take wives and become the fathers of sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there and do not decrease.7Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf; for in its welfare you will have welfare.’”
- Embrace Racial Diversity .
- Embrace the poor .
- Matt. 25:45-46 (NAS) 45“Then He will answer them, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.’46“These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
- Conclusion
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