Why Family on Mission?

Why Family on Mission?

6/13/21 - Dave Riddle 

Key passages: 1 Timothy 3:15, Matthew 28:18-20

We use the word family because it’s biblical.

Family = oikos (Greek: οἶκος) - an inhabited house, a physical dwelling place. Also, the inhabitants of a house, all the persons forming one family - a household. 

  • 1 Timothy 3:15 - we are the household of God.

  • The church is called “brother and sisters” over 20 times in the book of Acts alone!

What is our mission?

  • Matthew 28:18-20 - The great commission. Go make disciples…

  • Disciple = mathetes (Greek: μαθητής) - pupil/learner/student - a disciple. In the New Testament, a disciple is one who not only learns, but accepts and adverse to the instruction given to them, making it their personal everyday way of living .

  • Teaching them = didaskō (Greek: διδάσκω) - teaching with the purpose of transformation.

  • Acts 1:8

  • “The church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that [everything else is] simply a waste of time. God became man for no other purpose.” CS Lewis

  • Luke 6:40

Helping People Follow Jesus Together

  1. UP

    • Living in right relationship with the Father.

      • Jesus prioritized his relationship with his Father.

  2. IN

    • Living in right relationship with our church family.

      • You can’t walk in obedience with the will of God if you aren’t walking in right relationship with your brothers and sisters.

  3. OUT

    • Living on mission to reach the world.

      • We are ambassadors, as if God was making his appeal through us!