Paul & Timothy are writing to a church that Paul helped to start back 10 years ago. He’s acknowledging their status as saints and we are calling to remembrance the genesis of their relationship together. 

God did not create you in his image in order for you to pray a prayer, duck behind a wall and wait for eternity. You were created by God to go into all the world as an ambassador of God - taking on the spiritual forces of the enemy, pushing back the darkness and calling to any and all who will listen to come to God for life. You were made to make a difference. 

God designed you to be a member of a local church. We want you to be a member here at Covenant Church.

We are a church that exists to seek & save the lost. We want to have the same heart of the Father to help people come to Know God for the first time and bring our friends to meet Jesus too. We also want to come to Know God more deeply and worship in Spirit & in truth.

Waiting is a part of life. But, there is no reason to wait to accept Jesus’ free offer of salvation. He is inviting everyone to place their faith in him for the forgiveness of sins and receive salvation. 

We are all commanded to be witnesses for Christ, and no amount of excuses will change that. God has given you a story to tell - be ready and willing to share about how your life has been changed by Christ. 

People aren’t an inconvenience, they are the point! If we are willing to interrupt our day to care for people, like Jesus did, we will demonstrate to people that we care. That care helps us to win them to ourselves, our group, and eventually Christ. 

We all need to evangelize, but we don’t know how. When God entrusts a job to us, he empowers us to do that job. Prayer is an integral part of evangelism. If we want to see people come to know Christ we need to start praying for them persistently.

There is a real need for people who are evangelists. 

The idea of this first sermon in the series will be to impress upon people the need to reach others with the message of the Gospel. There could be opportunity to share your testimony, talk about the needs that you’ve seen through your mission work, etc.