Compassion is the key to turning the world upside down for the reign of Jesus.

A flip of the lenses of your life...we see everything in the world through the lens of compassion. Greek word for compassion means that your bowels are flipped "upside down" from the pain in the world.

In seasons of business or face paced...we forget the little details...but what we find in the "upside down" is that the compassion of Christ is manifested in the little details.

What if the Kingdom of God were hidden right beneath your feet? How would that fact flip your world "upside-down?"

What happened when the desire of outsiders to respond to the Gospel of Jesus and join the church was so high it almost broke the church? Take a look at how we might learn from the early Christians as they went back to the basics to decide who the church is "for."

Psalm 139

Barnabas took the ultimate risk...on a person...on a belief that God can change people, make them new, and use them for the Kingdom.

Disciples were in fear...terrified of this man of his past...feel like this is the default of the church...to call to mind memory of past sins...to explain why certain folks shouldn't be permitted into the fellowship.

But Barnabas took the chance to advocate for miracles...

Imitating Jesus our advocate...

Transition to the table (we don't deserve to be here, but Jesus advocates for our seats).

Practical call to action..

You can't buy the power of God

You can't control the way the HS works, the way the wind of God blows

God is not an idea or a magic to be sold for profit, influence, etc.

"Death to Life"

Miraculous death to life

Spirit of life

animating the church

spirit power

What do we celebrate in a baptism?

For one, we celebrate that the ordinary mundane of our everyday lives has been baptized in the life go Christ so that we can become a part of the extraordinary work of God's Kingdom in the latest chapter of the unfinished book of Acts.

Easter has just happened, we have a task to carry out now

Students being witnesses at another campus

College students can have deep faith

God sends us out to be community is various places

Evangelism, Faith, community

New life is supposed to fundamentally change us

Sharing, Going, doing

Message from Will McLeane on April 1, 2018