Greenville Oaks Church Message Podcast

Christians gather and Christians scatter. While both are necessary, the majority of the work the church does to fulfill its mission occurs while scattered. This Sunday Wade will share a simple vision for how every scattered Christian can participate in God's mission.

The goal of the Christian life is to become more like Christ. While most agree on the goal, there is some confusion about how to achieve it. How do we grow in Christ-likeness?  What is God's role in the process? What is ours? What keeps us from making progress toward the goal? These are some of the questions we'll tackle on Sunday.

Every time the gospel story is told, it calls for a response from those who hear it. This Sunday we'll explore how our response to the gospel is both a one-time event and a lifelong process.

Last week we explored the gospel story from above (God’s perspective). This week we’ll explore it from our perspective (below). In doing so, we’ll hopefully gain a better understanding of what it means to say, “Jesus saves.”

This week Wade is launching a new series about what it means to be part of God’s story by challenging us to begin our exploration of the gospel, not with our problems, needs, or desires, but with God’s activity in the world.

God’s grace is unearned, unmerited favor that he lavishes upon us, and is thus unfathomable. We often try to cheapen it by taking it for granted or by trying to “earn it” back. Since we don’t or can’t make sense of it, we struggle to model that kind of grace to others. But praise be to God for his good grace that is available and for each and everyone of us.

What if we just simply lived out the words of Acts 4:32?  

I am not saying you should or that it is easy.  I am just saying, what if we did it.  

I mean, what if we simply worried less about our own needs and focused more on making sure that those around us and those in our community had everything they needed.  And if they didn‘t have what they needed, that we would give it to them… we would just  fill in the gap.  

When you say it like that, it seem like a fairly simple challenge, but it’s not.  It’s really hard sometimes.

In a world of dizzying choices and multiplying options, Jesus shows us how to stay focused on what really matters