Agent of Change (Christ’s Vision for the Church, Part 6)
“You are the salt of the earth…You are the light of the world…Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.” Matthew 5.13-16
Three metaphors
As the temple, nation, and servants of the Lord Jesus, church members are weapons of righteousness in His hands, equipped, sent, and active in seeking first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, bringing the beauty, goodness, and truth of the Lord to their Personal Mission Fields and the world.
An Upside-down World
Ecclesiastes 8.14, 15
14There is a vanity which occurs on earth, that there are just mento whom it happens according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked mento whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also isvanity. 15So I commended enjoyment, because a man has nothing better under the sun than to eat, drink, and be merry; for this will remain with him in his labor allthe days of his life which God gives him under the sun.
Disciplines for All of Life
Foundations of a Worldview
“Surely I have taught you statutes and judgments, as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should act according tothem…” Deuteronomy 4.5
Corinthians 13:13, Matthew 20:26-28
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. Matthew 20:26-28 It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave, even as the Son of Man came not […]