Pastor Jeremy shares on Easter Sunday in Glendive.
BFBC functions as a force, not a field
● Church as a field - The church is a place where
people come and the work of God is done.
○ Inside the building the work of the Lord is
done by trained professionals, the building
becomes the harvest field.
● Church as a force - The church is people, equipped
to serve, meeting needs everywhere in Jesus’
Name.
○ Inside the building worship, training, and
fellowship are done. The building is a Holy
Ghost Hospital where believers can assemble
to recoup, recharge, be restored, repaired,
encouraged, sharpened, and head back out
into the field to do the work of the ministry
again.
Today we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus
● Luke 24:1 Now on the first day of the week, very
early in the morning, they, and certain other
women with them, came to the tomb bringing the
spices which they had prepared. 2 But they found
the stone rolled away from the tomb. 3 Then they
went in and did not find the body of the Lord
Jesus. 4 And it happened, as they were greatly
perplexed about this, that behold, two men stood
by them in shining garments. 5 Then, as they were
afraid and bowed their faces to the earth, they said
to them, “Why do you seek the living among the
dead? 6 He is not here, but is risen! Remember
how He spoke to you when He was still in Galilee,
7 saying, ‘The Son of Man must be delivered into
the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the
third day rise again.’ ”
● This action of the resurrection is a crescendo of a
long list of God bringing something dead back to
life...
○ 1 Kings 17 the widow's son (Elijah)
○ 2 Kings 4 shunammite woman’s son (Elisha)
○ 2 Kings 13 Israelite man thrown on Elisha’s
bones
○ Luke 7 the only son of a widow woman
(Jesus)
○ Luke 8/Mark 5 Jairus’ daughter (Jesus)
○ John 11 Lazarus (Jesus)
● or you could say it this way...God making
something out of nothing.
○ Abraham & Sarah
○ Joseph
○ Gideon
○ David
● Life is hard, marriage is hard, raising kids is hard,
owning a business is hard, working for someone is
hard, caring for livestock during snowmageddon is
hard, shopping for groceries is hard, filling up with
fuel is hard...shoveling snow is hard!!
○ This building is a Holy Ghost Hospital where
believers can assemble to recoup, recharge,
be restored, repaired, encouraged,
sharpened, and head back out into the field
to do the work of the ministry again.
○ This is who we are, this is what we do. We let
God do what He is good at, bringing dead
things back to life, making something out of
nothing.
○ Do you need a little resurrection in your
marriage, your business, the relationship
with your kids, your career, your ground,
your body...
■ Rom 8:11 But if the Spirit of Him who
raised Jesus from the dead dwells in
you, He who raised Christ from the
dead will also give life to your mortal
bodies through His Spirit who dwells in
you.
