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

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

Tom Johnson continues this coming Sunday to invite us to join our Triune God in going outward, learning more and more to live and laugh, to see and love in the joy and power of God.

Teaching Pastors: David Johnson, Lead Teaching Pastor and Tom Johnson, Missional Life Pastor | Acts | www.thedoor.org

Tom Johnson and David Johnson share the platform this Sunday connecting us into the Acts 13 story of listening, discerning and ultimately sending Saul and Barnabas out. God in His very nature is missional and His heart is that we would go in His Spirit's power to serve people and love them into life.

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

Because God is by character missional what we will hear when we listen to the Spirit will be to move outward. Regrettably, human nature resists moving outward toward others in love. But that is always God’s direction, and that’s what He desires to shape in us, catching us up to join His good and glad purposes of healing and restoration.

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

The mountains were the site of altars and shrines where the Jews would sometimes stray from worship of Jehovah, instead offering sacrifices to counterfeit gods to try to ward off war, famine, and disease. We're no different – we can tend to “head for the hills” and our own counterfeit gods at the smallest threat of discomfort or disapproval. But the psalmist emphatically declares that God’s invitation is to be anchored in the reality that “my help comes from the LORD, the maker of heaven and earth.”

Teaching Pastor: David Johnson, Lead Teaching Pastor | Advent 2016 | www.thedoor.org

Teaching Pastor: David Johnson, Lead Teaching Pastor | Advent 2016 | www.thedoor.org

Dave speaks this Sunday about Joseph, Mary’s fiancé. He gets only scant mention in Scripture. He wasn’t the star of the story, none of his words were recorded. Like Mary, though, he was willing to say yes to God’s invitations despite the cost.

Joseph knew the story wasn’t about him; he was willing to accept his secondary role and bear the cost of obedience. This kind of faith-filled humility is worth studying and growing into.

Teaching Pastor: David Johnson, Lead Teaching Pastor | Advent 2016 | www.thedoor.org

Scripture often shows us people who are waiting. Waiting for a child. Waiting to be set free. Waiting to become king. Waiting to return from exile. Waiting for God to speak, to break in, to do something. The good news, in the waiting, is that we wait together. AS the people of God, and WITH the people of God, we wait together for the inbreakings of God.

Teaching Pastor: Anne-Marie Finsaas, Pastor of Formational Life | Advent 2016 | www.thedoor.org

This Sunday Anne-Marie Finsaas brings us to the second week of Advent with the reassurance that, from the moment Adam and Eve disobeyed, God has had a rescue plan and has broken into history time and again to bring restoration and wholeness. But we’re also still waiting for complete restoration. Advent, is the time that we look back to remember; and we wait together with the people of God as we look forward in both desperation and hope.

Teaching Pastor: Peter Kapsner, Lead Staff Pastor and Taylor Bongard, Next Steps | Advent 2016 | www.thedoor.org

Peter Kapsner and Taylor Bongard address one of our chief Advent tasks: waiting.