Red Door Caroline Springs

Reader: Amy Caruana

Preacher: Joshua Henessey

Paul’s ministry was about more than simply preaching the gospel and moving on. He was committed to making disciples, gathering believers together, and preserving the unity of the church around the truth of the gospel. Josh looks at what it means to be a church shaped by those same commitments, and why they still matter for us today.

Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia.
We exist to be a community of people helping people make all
of life all about Jesus.

Reader: John Hargrave

Preacher: Jonathan Smith

The silversmith's complaint is economic before it's religious - Paul's

gospel is costing the idol trade its income - but Demetrius wraps it in

civic pride and religious devotion: Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!

(v.28).

Opposition to the gospel is rarely about the gospel alone. Behind the

theological objection there's almost always something else - status,

money

Reader: Danita O’Loughlin

Preacher: Jonathan Smith

Paul's time in Ephesus is the longest and most fruitful ministry

episode in Acts as he spends two years teaching so that all of Asia

hears the word (v.10). Then the sons of Sceva try to use Jesus' name

as a magic formula, and it goes badly wrong.

The point is serious: Jesus' name isn't a technique - it belongs to a

person, and carries power only in relationship with him.

What follows is a remarkable act of public repentance: a bonfire of

occult books worth fifty thousand pieces of silver. Thatʼs the

equivalent of fifty thousand days' wages - around 200 years of work,

or in today's terms, something in the order of $10 million (if you

earn the minimum wage!).

Repentance, when it's real, is costly.

Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia.
We exist to be a community of people helping people make all
of life all about Jesus.

Reader: Bek Hudson

Preacher: Jonathan Smith

This week we follow Paul to Corinth, a bustling Roman city, where he works with his hands alongside Priscilla and Aquila, a couple recently expelled from Rome. He preaches in the synagogue until opposition drives him next door. Then one night the Lord speaks to him: don’t be afraid, keep speaking, I am with you, and I have many people in this city.

Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia.
We exist to be a community of people helping people make all
of life all about Jesus.

Reader: Amy Caruana

Preacher: Joshua Hennessey

"What's the point of the Christian faith, and what are believers called to do?” How would you answer a question like that? This week, Josh preaches through the last chapter of 2 Peter, where Peter signs off with a final encouragement that helps us understand how he might respond.

Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia.
We exist to be a community of people helping people make all
of life all about Jesus.

Reader: Esther Hudson

Preacher: Jonathan Smith

Jonathan takes us through chapter 2, of 2 Peter - Peter's hard hitting final letter to the church. Peter continues to pull no punches in his stark warnings about false teachers and the judgement awaiting them. This is tempered by the reminder that the Lord knows how to rescue his people from trials.

Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia.
We exist to be a community of people helping people make all
of life all about Jesus.

Reader: Bek Hudson

Preacher: Josh Hennessy

Today we start a 3 week mini-series on 2 Peter. Josh gives us some background on Peter, so we can better understand where this letter is coming from, and so we can appreciate its authenticity. Peter really wants the church to be useful and fruitful. Josh expands on what it means to be useful and fruitful in the Kingdom of God.

Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia.
We exist to be a community of people helping people make all
of life all about Jesus.

Reader: Esther Hudson

Preacher: Tibor Tumbas

Tibor is preaching from Ephesians 4. Paul makes a surprising claim: unity isn't something the church creates, it's something God has already made in Christ - and our job is to guard it. What does that look like in practice, and what kind of church God is growing us into.?

Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia.
We exist to be a community of people helping people make all
of life all about Jesus.

Reader: Danita O'Loughlin

Preacher: Jonathan Smith

Paul in Athens doesn't begin with Abraham or Moses. He begins

where his audience is - their religious instinct, their altar to an

unknown god, their poets - then moves from what they already

sense to what they don't yet know: a God who made everything,

needs nothing, and isn't far from any of us.

The sermon is contextualisation without compromise. Paul affirms

what's true in Athenian culture before announcing what's missing:

the God they've been groping toward (v.27) has now spoken clearly,

through a man he's raised from the dead. The resurrection divides

the room - as it always does.

The next question to ask - how do the methods Paul used apply to us in modern life?

What idols are we and modern society worshipping instead of the one true God?

Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia.
We exist to be a community of people helping people make all
of life all about Jesus.

Reader: John Hargrave

Preacher: Jonathan Smith

In Thessalonica, Paul reasons from Scripture that the Messiah had to suffer and rise, and that Jesus is that Messiah (v.3). Some are persuaded; others form a mob. The charge against Paul's community - these people who've turned the world upside down (v.6) - is meant as an accusation. Luke records it as a tribute. In Berea, the response is different: the Bereans receive the word eagerly and examine the Scriptures daily to test it (v.11). Luke calls them more noble, but even there, opposition follows.

Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia.
We exist to be a community of people helping people make all
of life all about Jesus.