This week brings us to the last sign of a community that is filled and empowered by the Spirit of God. Namely, when the Spirit of God is present, there should be something compelling, something different, that you can’t find anywhere else.
It Was Finished Upon That Cross
CityAlight
Man of Sorrows
Hillsong Worship
Living Hope
Phil Wickham
Jesus Over Everything
The Belonging Co.
Mark #3
A disciple is one who responds to the Holy Spirit.
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Mark #4
A disciple is one who engages in biblical community.
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Acts 10:9-13
The next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray. And he became hungry and wanted something to eat, but while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance and saw the heavens opened and something like a great sheet descending, being let down by its four corners upon the earth. In it were all kinds of animals and reptiles and birds of the air. And there came a voice to him: “Rise, Peter; kill and eat.”
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Acts 10:28,29
And he said to them, “You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with or to visit anyone of another nation, but God has shown me that I should not call any person common or unclean. So when I was sent for, I came without objection. I ask then why you sent for me.
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A Compelling Church
1. Elevates Prayer
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A Compelling Church
2. Responds in Obedience
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We are educated far beyond our level of obedience.
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A Compelling Church
3. Lives selflessly
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Philippians 2:3-8
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
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A Compelling Church
4. Obsessed with the mission
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Acts 1:8
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.
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Marks #5 and #6
A disciple is one who serves others and proclaims Jesus.
