Gospel Intentionality

God wants to use more ordinary people to do more of His extraordinary work in our world. In the video we find inspiration and perfect picture of what success should look like for Imago Dei Community Church. People living on mission, people incarnating the gospel. People joining God in the good for the city. When we- people of God bring the gospel message of hope and love to the people of our city we win! That's success. When we as a church empower a movement of people to bring gospel intentionality to their home, their work, their communities and their city. That's living on mission! That's the picture of success.

Recently I was a guest preacher and taught on the subject of living with Gospel Intentionality. I preached from Acts 1:1-11. My outline was basically Acts 1-5 tells us that Jesus is Lord. Luke (the author) develops a conclusive argument to his friend that Jesus is in fact Lord,the risen God in the human flesh, having showed himself after his death to people for more than 40 days, sharing meals building his relationships, teaching truth and preparing them for mission!

Luke continues in verses 6-11 to explain how Jesus gave his followers a basic command...Go, "Be my witnesses to all Judea all Samaria and to the ends of the earth."They were to take all that they had learned and put it to action! Jesus was leaving them to carry on his mission. Little did they know that this little seedling Christian community would later become the most influential force in the Roman Empire By 310 AD this Christ community had grown to more than 20 million followers strong!- Which is before Constantine, I might add! You can learn more about how to live with gospel intentionality by listening to my recent sermon titled Jesus is Lord and Jesus says Go. You will need to look around on the website to find it but it's there!

So where does God have you right now? Where are you working?

Imagine what could happen if you saw your work as a ministry to serve others, seeking the benefit of others?

What would happen if you lived in your neighborhood with gospel intentionality living like Jesus in a continual pattern of truth, relationship and mission?

What about your city? What's God doing in your city? What could you imagine God wanting to do through His people- the Church there?