Christ Community Brookside
Church for Monday - 9:00am & 10:45am
Ephesians 4:11-12 ESV
Title: Church for Monday
Scripture: Ephesians 4:11-12
Speaker: Bill Gorman, BillG@ChristCommunityKC.org
>> God made you for Monday. (Not just Sunday!)
>> Monday matters to God
“In the midst of a mighty struggle to rid our nation of racial and economic injustice, I have heard many ministers say: 'Those are social issues, with which the gospel has no real concern.' And I have watched many churches commit themselves to a completely other worldly religion which makes a strange, un-Biblical distinction between body and soul, between the sacred and the secular." —Martin Luther King Jr.
>> Monday matters to God
>> Monday is an opportunity for God’s people
"The new life into which we are baptized is lived out in days, hours, and minutes. God is forming us into a new people. And the place of that formation is in the small moments of today… We tend to want a Christian life with the dull bits cut out. Yet God made us to spend our days in rest, work, and play, taking care of our bodies, our families, our neighborhoods, our homes. What if all these boring parts matter to God? What if days passed in ways that feel small and insignificant to us are weighty with meaning and part of the abundant life that God has for us?"
—Tish Harrison Warren, The Liturgy of the Ordinary
>> Monday matters to God
>> Monday is an opportunity for God’s people
>> Monday is the majority of the mission
Takes up their Cross -- Trusting Jesus in all of life
Puts on the Yoke -- Pursuing intimacy with God through spiritual disciplines
Builds their life on the Bible -- Seeing everything as God’s story
Loves the Church -- Prioritizing the family of God
Seeks the good of the City -- Giving themselves away
Seeks the good of the City -- Sharing the gospel in word and deed
Seeks the good of the City -- Working diligently for the flourishing of all