Renewal Church

We live in a day and age when it seems like everything is being questioned. There is a rapidly growing belief that whatever we’ve been told about this or that is probably wrong, that there is a dark “other side” to the story that’s been kept from us.

Sadly, this is sometimes true and as people of the truth, we need to acknowledge this. For instance, if you’re familiar with Church history, right alongside the stories of heroic and self-sacrificing saints are horrific stories of abuse and mistreatment of non-Christian people. This is one reason why many people today are rethinking the faith.

But this is not how it all began. The advancement of the way of Jesus was done precisely according to the way of Jesus – courageously sharing the truth of the gospel from a posture of self-sacrificing humility and relentless love. And when there was suffering, it was Jesus’ followers who were enduring the beatings and death (not the other way around).

Why? Because God loves all people and wants all people to be a part of his family. Jesus’ earliest followers got this. It was the gravitational center of their lives as it should be for all who have surrendered to our Lord.

This Sunday we begin the Apostle Paul’s second journey into the unbelieving, pagan Roman world. Let’s watch him and his small band of colleagues exude the love of God. Maybe we can learn a few things.

Week 27: Unstoppable Kingdom - A Journey Through Acts
July 25, 2021 - Acts 15

This Sunday Pastor Chris presents our potential new location! This whole year we’ve been studying the Book of Acts, learning how God advances his kingdom through the church. And we are eager to see how God will continue to use the people and the presence of Renewal Church in Memphis for his glory and the good of all people.

Week 25: Unstoppable Kingdom - A Journey Through Acts
July 4, 2021 - Acts 13

Week 23: Unstoppable Kingdom - A Journey Through Acts
June 20, 2021 - Acts 11:19-30
Ordinary believers. Forgotten people. Folks whose names history had never written down. These are the people who became a gospel-germ in the ancient world, spreading the message of Jesus far beyond Jerusalem…far beyond the comfort of their homeland and their own familiar ethnicity and culture. They had been made alive by the Spirit of God. They had no tamed, siloed, quarantined, socially acceptable category for the faith that we have today. They had been swept up by the kingdom of God. Everything had changed. They were now Jesus-people, a new kind of ethnic group that was set apart as a signpost to the renewing and unstoppable power of God. This meant they would be irreversibly distinguished as peculiar to outsiders. Yet, the message spread. Rapidly. They shared their lives. They loved the poor. They worshipped the one true God who made this world and in whom life can only make sense. It was thrilling. It was scary. It was an adventure. These ordinary people are often obscured by the shadow of the heroes we read about — Peter, John, Barnabas, and Paul. But it was these people — the church — that God used to advance his gospel in ways that only one man or one woman could never do.

Week 22: Unstoppable Kingdom - A Journey Through Acts
June 13, 2021 - Acts 10-11:18

Week 21: Unstoppable Kingdom - A Journey Through Acts
June 6, 2021 - Acts 9:10-31