DOES THE CHURCH CHANGE THE WORLD OR DOES THE WORLD CHANGE THE CHURCH?

Summary

DOES THE CHURCH CHANGE THE WORLD OR DOES THE WORLD CHANGE THE CHURCH? ~ Renewing Your Mind Sermon

 

Preached by Pastor Bryan Walker at One Way Christian Center in Olustee, Oklahoma.

SERMON NOTES:

Romans 12:1-2

• (Last Week) Present Your Bodies ~ Spiritual Worship TOPICS
• Do not be conformed to this world ~ discern the will of God
• How? By the renewal of your mind

 

How do we understand, THIS WORLD

• How do you live in the world, love the lost, proclaim the gospel and not conform to THIS WORLD?

 

1 Corinthians 9:19

Mark 16:15

VS.

 

2 Corinthians 6:14

1 John 2:15-16

 

Jesus ministered to common people, sinners, tax collectors and prostitutes

Apostles took the gospel to the people

Paul preached to the Pagan religions

• Maintained the truth of the Gospel
• Compassionate and loving!
• What about this…

 

1 Corinthians 5:11

Did Jesus and the Apostles change the world or did the world change them?

Lies and false doctrine

NOT ALWAYS – Majority Rules – World is the majority

World should have NO influence on doctrine

Today? Doctrine Doesn’t Matter?

• JESUS
• APOSTLES
• MARTIN LUTHER
  1. Church Council
  2. Pope’s Authority
  3. Scripture!!

• It is better that I should die a thousand times than that I should retract one syllable of the condemned articles. And as they excommunicated me for the sacrilege of heresy, so I excommunicate them in the name of the sacred truth of God. Christ will judge whose excommunication will stand.

• MARTYRS
  • Burn a pinch of incense and declare Cesar is Lord
    • Receive a paper
    • Then worship Christ as you like

 

GOAL – know the will of God!

• Modern “You will have Peace???”
  • God’s sovereignty! SIN and NEED for Saving!
  • Try witnessing
    • Speaking of witnessing ~ Riots in Ferguson, MO
  • Bible Roulette! No different than TARA CARDS
    • Joke – Quit smoking
      • 1Co 6:19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit
      • Rev 15:8 and the temple was filled with smoke

 

Life is FULL OF DECISIONS

Small Decisions

• Wave at Alicia ~ Lord should I wave
• Hello to Alicia ~ Lord should I say hello
• Conversation with Alicia ~ Should I use this word or that word…
• Dinner with Alicia

Big Decisions

• Injured!
• Should I date Alicia
• Should I marry Alicia

I searched the Bible for, “Should I marry Alicia?”  No result Found

How do we make daily ROUTINE decisions?

 

1. God is sovereign
2. RENEWING THE MIND ~ Christ centered thinking!!!

 

Empty your mind and focus on Jesus – Pagan!

Empty your mind, it is hindering the Spirit – Pagan!

 

• NOT just learning data
• Thinking like Christ
• Mind and Heart are LINKED
• Are your passions for the Lord? Or things of the world
  • In the World
  • We come out of World
  • Educated by the World
  • Miserable Christian

 

• Not sanctified overnight SPURGEON

 

1 Peter 1:14-15

• Pray! Know the word! Love the Word!  STANDARD
• Put on Christ!
  • One Way Hoodie? SURE!
  • Reminders – Rainbow
  • Lord’s Supper…

2 Peter 3:1

Mark 16:15

 

 

FAITH – 5 Minute Devotion – One Way Christian Center

Given by Roy Moreau

Hebrews 11:1 NKJV  Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Romans 8:24 NKJV  For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees?

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