Tom Johnson helps us revisit – then live out in our own lives – the events of Pentecost in Acts 2. The Living Presence of God that had been so rigorously reserved for only the high priest, only once a year, only after meticulous cleansings and preparations, was now set loose and was taking up residence in those first disciples; and that indwelling Reality brought about such a change in those men and women that they were truly fearless in the face of the same opposition that had had them cowering only weeks before.

This explosion of God’s Presence into His people is a picture of God’s heart for us and for the world.

Teaching Pastor: Tom Johnson, Missional Life Pastor | Pentecost 2018 | www.thedoor.org

Jesus has revealed the face of God to us, Dave declared, making the Father’s grace and truth available to us; and Jesus calls us to do the same. Our abiding and remaining in the joy of the Vine is the only way we can be “in God for the world.” It takes guts (Dave’s word) and the workings of the Holy Spirit to truly believe that we are loved and then to remain in that

Teaching Pastor: David Johnson, Lead Teaching Pastor | www.thedoor.org

Kati Beasley brings us to the Table this Sunday with the invitation, from Jesus’s Farewell Discourse, to abide in His love – to remain, dwell, continue, endure, and linger. Abiding in His love is the only thing that makes it possible to truly turn our faces outward and join Jesus in His mission.

Special Guest Speaker: Kati Beasley, Formational Life Associate | www.thedoor.org

Jesus’ proclamation in John 10 that “I have other sheep that are not of this fold” becomes vividly real when the Spirit directs Philip to catch up with the Ethiopian eunuch’s chariot (Acts 8). Philip is doing what Jesus, in the upper room, had told his followers to do: to see lost coins and lost sheep, and move toward them with the heart of God.

This is a familiar theme: “Leave the friendly confines of what is comfortable and familiar – and go.” And just like those early followers of Jesus who didn’t “go” until persecution in Jerusalem got them up and out and “going,” we’re also challenged by the “going.”

Teaching Pastor: Tom Johnson, Missional Life Pastor | www.thedoor.org

David takes us to John 10 this week, Jesus' declaration that "I am the good shepherd" who loves the sheep, cares for the sheep, indeed lays down His life for the sheep.

This was a familiar image for the Jews of Jesus' time - so why did His hearers think He was insane or demon-possessed and a few verses further on, pick up stones to silence Him? David wonders, "What was He saying? What was He confronting? What was He exposing?

Teaching Pastor: David Johnson, Lead Teaching Pastor | www.thedoor.org

Teaching Pastor: Anne-Marie Finsaas, Pastor of Formational Life | Eastertide 2018 | www.thedoor.org

Teaching Pastor: David Johnson, Lead Teaching Pastor | Easter 2018 | www.thedoor.org

Hosanna means "Save us now" - beseeching, crying out for salvation, pleading for rescue. Both personally and on behalf of others, the plea of Hosanna ushers us into Holy Week and the journey to the Cross and Resurrection.

David, Vicki, Joel and the worship team invite us into the Story to find ourselves in the narrative and see (again!) our own need for rescue; to encounter grace; and to hear Jesus' invitation to follow, to be with Him in this part of the journey.

Teaching Pastor: David Johnson, Lead Teaching Pastor | Palm Sunday | www.thedoor.org

Sara Richards brings us to the fifth Sunday of Lent with John 12:20-33. These words surely must have been a puzzle to Jesus’ hearers:

• Unless a grain of wheat falls to the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain.

• Those who love their life must lose it.

• If I am lifted up – crucified – I will draw all people to Me.

There’s a lot in here about how God’s kingdom is so very different from what we think and expect, especially the pieces about dying in order to live. Yet even with suffering and death, with what looks like crisis on all sides – in Jesus’ time and currently – the Kingdom is not in trouble. We are not in trouble. The whole season of Lent points us to our hope, our certainty that Jesus wins in the end, even though suffering is part of our life now.

Teaching Pastor: Sara Richards, Next Generation Pastor | Lent 2018 | www.thedoor,org

Rose Larson and Mark Collier, back from Liberia will be sharing this Sunday about their experiences. What Rose and Mark bring is so congruent with Lent’s theme of keeping company with Jesus on his journey to the cross, and Dave’s words to us last Sunday about growing up and letting go.

Our Liberian brothers and sisters at Mission of Hope live out in their daily lives the Gospel’s invitation to die to oneself in order that someone else might flourish – and in that laying down of themselves, they’ve found this rich, deep, ALIVE life!

Rose Larson, Missional Life Associate and Mark Collier, Guest Speaker | Lent 2018 | www.thedoor.org