Love Goes
✓We Gather because... GOD Matters (Hebrews 10:24-25) ✓We Grow because... GROWTH Matters (2 Peter 3:18) ✓We Give because... GENEROSITY Matters (Mark 10:45) ✓We Go because... GOING Matters
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. Acts 1:8
2. WE ARE CALLED TO FUND THE GOSPEL
a. The Gospel is worthy of our SUPPORT.
I give thanks to my God for every remembrance of you, always praying with joy for all of you in my every prayer, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. Philippians 1:3-5
And you Philippians know that in the early days of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you alone. Philippians 4:15
b. Giving for the advancement of the gospel is SAFE.
And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus. 20 Now to our God and Father be glory forever and ever. •Amen. Philippians 4:19-20
1. WE ARE CALLED TO SHARE THE GOSPEL
We receive power from God to be WITNESSES for God.
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and
you will be my witnesses...Acts 1:8
And look, I am sending you what My Father promised. As for you, stay in
the city until you are empowered from on high.”. Luke 24:49 Sharing the gospel begins at HOME.
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem ...Acts 1:8
3. WE ARE CALLED TO DISPLAY THE GOSPEL
Our lives should REFLECT the gospel.
The ministry of the Holy Spirit is NECESSITY for going.
Then Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit and said to them, “Rulers of the
people and elders: 1 Peter 4:10-11
But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it’s right in the sight of God for us to listen to you rather than to God, you decide; for we are unable to stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.
Acts 4:19-20
BOTTOM-LINE: WE GO BECAUSE SHARING THE GOSPEL MATTERS
Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel. – Philippians 1:27
b. The gospel produces two things in our hearts. • A LOVE for God.
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. Matthew 22:37-38
• A LOVE for others.
And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Matthew 12:39
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and whoever captures souls is wise.
Proverbs 11:30
