Seven Mile Road

According to the gospels, whenever Christ preached, he would end his sermons with a bang: an urgent and direct call to action. This is because His listeners (then now) tend to hear His words and nod their heads ... but not do much about them. But that's not how the gospel life works. The gospel life is never one of merely paying Christ lip service, but of evidencing our faith with actual obediences.

Jesus looked at his disciples and told them the way God’s world works: the poor are the blessed ones, the rich are the distressed ones. It seems upside down or backwards to conventional wisdom but it’s true, God has good news for the poor and words of warning for the rich. We are located in an affluent time and place, how do Jesus’ words apply? Are we poor or rich? Sunday we get to wrestle with the good Dr Luke’s recording of Jesus’ word and decipher what is is God wants us to know from Luke 6:20

“Do Not Judge” are some words from Jesus that most everyone can get behind in this cultural moment. The basis of these words though go to root of the gospel and the reason the God-man, King Jesus instructs His followers to live this way. This Sunday we’ll explore the contours of this text in Luke and talk about how we put this into practice as followers of Jesus.
Reference: Luke 6:37-42

Up until this point Luke 6, we haven’t heard Jesus tell us what his disciples do.

In this week’s passage, we will explore how Jesus tells his disciples to engage “Them”.

Jesus’ people love their enemies & actively choose to do good to them. This is not our default, but has deep implications for how we posture ourselves to outsiders.

15 months ago COVID-19 hit.
Everyone on earth's plans got wiped out overnight.

Including ours.
And there was nothing we could do about it.

This happens often in life.
When it does, God is in it.

This Sunday - the last of this crazy church year together - we learn how.

James 4:13-16

Sometimes an up close photo can capture the true quality or personality of a friend or loved one. The photo, in an instant, depicts so much of what we’ve come to know to be true about a person over years of their life.

Luke gives us an insta glimpse of the twelve disciples, but this informs us not only on what they were like, but also what is true of all disciples of Jesus for centuries after.

Seven Mile Road exists to see every Bostonian Jesus gives us loved and gospeled well.

One thing this requires is - whether by office, by circumstance, or by natural gifting - leaders leading well.

So over the years we have tried to build a gospel-shaped leadership culture at Seven Mile Road.

This Sunday morning we are going to consider the roots in which strong gospel leadership grows.

The Word: 2 Timothy 2:20-21

Pastor Matt gives a quick overview of our upcoming leadership intensive.

You are invited to join us this Sunday directly following gathered worship for a leadership workshop. 

Listen for all the details. 

There is a lot of info to keep you informed this month! Listen as Matt, Michael, and Sara get you updated on what to expect at Seven Mile Melrose in the coming weeks.

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