“Intentionality”
October 02, 2011
While looking back at our last series on “Why Church”, this is really a standalone sermon that that asks if this is our purpose,
“What are you going to do about it?” We will also consider the meaning of “World Communion Sunday.”
Philippians 3:4b - 14
Matthew 21:33-46
Intentionality – World Communion Sunday
The Great Commandment (Matthew 22:37-40)
Love God & Love your neighbor
The Great Commission (Matthew 28:19-20)
Go & Make Disciples, Baptizing, Teaching
We are called to:
"Know Christ and to make Christ known
in the Atwater community and beyond.”
*Intentionality:
Leadership Institute: (a) ______________
Bible Search: Unintentional sin
Leviticus 5:15 (b) ________________
Deuteronomy 4:42 (c) _______________
Google Search: Degrees of Murder
The (d) ____________ Institute
Employees: (e) _____________
Customers: (f) _____________
John Wesley: (Loose quotation)
“I agree with Martin Luther, salvation is a free gift that you cannot earn.
Now that you have it, ‘what are you going to do with it?’”
Followers of Jesus Christ are to be (g) __________
NOT (h) _____________
Parable: Wicked Tenants – Intentionally against
The vine branches - ? unintentional (John 15:2)
Memory Verse: A key to making disciples
“Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but this one thing I do: forgetting
what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead” (Philippians 3:13)
**World Communion Sunday:
Started in 1936: Presbyterian Church (USA)
1940 – Ecumenical - “to affirm their unity in Christ”
United Methodist Holy Communion
An act of confession, repentance, reaffirmation, and acceptance of forgiveness
Other Denominations: (i) ____________
Paul: “forgetting what lies behind staining (intentional) forward to what lies ahead” (Philippians 3:13)
Closing:
Note: All scripture quotes are from the NRSV unless otherwise noted.
(a) Intentionality, (b) Guilt Offering, (c) Flee to safety,
(d) Disney, (e) Cast Members, (f) Guests, (g) intentional
(h) unintentional, (i)Altar Call