Sunrise Church

As the gospel comes to Antioch and a church is born, we see that the church has always been God’s plan for nations as a hub for the gospel and the place from which we are sustained in our faithfulness and called to serve.

For all of his religious faithfulness, Cornelius still needed to recognize that Jesus will judge all people, not according to their religious adherence, but by their trust in him for salvation.

In Christ we are called to be living sacrifices, holy and acceptable to God in reasonable service to Him.

God’s plan for the spread of the gospel is not by worldly means, but by the simple proclamation of the gospel and the effectual work of the Spirit.

Finding belief in a culture of elusive truth

The aim of the church and the gospel message we’ve been given is simple: go call sinners to repentance in order that they may be found.

Through examining three vignettes of encounters with Christ we see there are those who who fear Him and those who desire to follow Him.

Sin within the church is much more dangerous than persecution from without and, yet, we seem more concerned about the threats from without than the threats from within.

No society can stand when the values of the individual trump the values of the greater society. The church, though, is to be an answer to this individualism. The church is the ultimate alternative community.