Mobilize is a place where we recap the big idea of the sermon and give some next steps, as you grow in letting God’s word transform your life.
We had guest speaker Mark DeYmaz from Mosaic Church in Little Rock, AK and Mosaix Global Network come this weekend and help us as a church consider how to better live out our vision to make disciples who are living from the Gospel, crossing ethnic and economic lines. Mark gave us a dynamic outline of Romans that showed how Paul was writing the letter to help the Roman church understand God’s heart for a multi-ethnic people were all were all included in salvation and the church.
Here are some highlights from the sermon:
Romans is like a term paper that Paul wrote to explain and defend the call for Gentile inclusion in the faith and in NT churches. Mark walked us through the outline:
- Romans 1:16-17- Thesis statement: Salvation has come to ALL PEOPLE who believe. First to the Jew but them to the Gentile.
- Romans 1:18-32- Why the Gentiles needed salvation.
- Romans 2-BUT ALSO why you Jewish believers needed salvation.
- Romans 3- Jews and Gentiles alike must be saved by faith.
- Romans 4- Salvation can not come by cultural heritage or works of human hands.
- Romans 5-8- A breakdown of the Gospel of Jesus that brings salvation.
- Romans 10- The Jewish religious zeal was misplace in works over faith.
- Romans 11- It’s not too late for Jewish folks to be saved.
- Romans 12-15- How then do the Romans (and us) live as one in a multi-ethnic church.
- Romans 16:25-26- Paul restates his thesis and calls this gospel of Gentile inclusion in the faith and the church the “MYSTERY” he was given to explain. This language is used in Colossians 1:25-27 and Ephesians 3:1-6.
Mark closed by calling us a corporate people to move toward corporate sanctification and helped us consider how to take the next step in being a healthy, biblical multi-ethnic church.
Action steps for our week together:
- We are called to be discipled by the Spirit and Word. Spend time in our passage this week-The book of Romans. What is the Spirit saying to you through the text? Use Mark’s outline to help you hear from the Spirit.
- Consider these things with your community this week.
- Mark defines a healthy multi-ethnic church as one where men and women of diverse ethnic and economic backgrounds WILL themselves to the following.
- Walking, working, worshiping God together as ONE to advance a credible witness of God’s love to all people.
- Recognizing, renewing, reconciling, and redeeming broken relationships.
- Advocating and advancing justice, mercy and compassion work in the community.
- Embracing tension or sound theological reflection and social application.
- Mark defines a healthy multi-ethnic church as one where men and women of diverse ethnic and economic backgrounds WILL themselves to the following.
As you consider this definition, where do you want to take steps to WILL yourself to the work in a fresh way?