The Gospel Trail

The Life of the Gathered Church: Participation With Order

1 Corinthians 14:26–40

What happens when the church gathers? Is it simply a time to sit, listen, and receive from one speaker, or did Christ intend for His people to participate in building one another up?

In 1 Corinthians 14:26, Paul writes, “Whenever you come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation.” Notice those words: each of you has something.

The early church gathering included participation, spiritual gifts, encouragement, and instruction. But participation was never meant to create confusion or draw attention to individuals. Paul makes it clear that everything must be done for the building up of the body of Christ.

Join Pastor Kevin and Pastor Sandy as we explore what it means to be a participating church—a gathering where believers are encouraged to contribute, spiritual gifts are exercised responsibly, everything is weighed against Scripture, and love and order guide the fellowship.

Perhaps we need to ask ourselves: Have we become so accustomed to sitting in church that we have forgotten we are also called to be part of the body?

The goal is not simply to gather people, but to build up the church as every member learns to serve, encourage, and strengthen one another in Christ.

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A Biblical Foundation Study: The Life of the Gathered Church

Jesus said, “Go and make disciples.”

For the most part, we have built organizations whose structures seem to suggest that Jesus’ command in Matthew 28:19–20 was given primarily to professional evangelists, while the ministry gifts Christ gave to His Church in Ephesians 4 are somehow no longer needed.

Then we sit within those structures and ask, “How can we grow the Church to fit what we have built?”

But perhaps the question we should be asking is much more unsettling:

“Have we built our structure around the pattern Jesus gave us, or have we asked Jesus to bless the structure we built?”

Psalm 18 But in my distress I cried out to the Lord;
    yes, I prayed to my God for help.
He heard me from his sanctuary;
    my cry to him reached his ears.

Romans 10:13

For “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

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I’m so glad you’re here. Church, whenever Jesus spoke about the Kingdom of Heaven, He didn’t give us long theological lectures. He gave us parables — living windows into spiritual reality. 

These stories reveal how God’s Kingdom actually works in a world that often feels completely upside down. And if we’re honest, every generation asks the same hard questions.

Questions that rise up when we look at the chaos around us, the struggles in the church, and even the battles in our own hearts. 

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Church, there are some prisons built with iron bars… and there are some prisons built inside the human heart.

Jesus speaks in this passage about conflict, forgiveness, correction, repentance, mercy, and judgment. And if we are honest, every one of us has walked into this room carrying scars from people who wounded us.

Some wounds are small. Some wounds changed the direction of our lives.

And yet Jesus gives His disciples a challenge: not merely to receive forgiveness from God…   but to become people who forgive others.

Because forgiven people are supposed to become forgiving people.

Tonight I want to preach a message called:

“The Prison We Build”

I. Jesus Challenges Us to Pursue Restoration

II. Peter Wants a Number — Jesus Gives a Lifestyle

III. The Servant Who Forgot Mercy

IV. Unforgiveness Becomes Torment

Matthew 18:15–35

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Welcome to The Gospel Trail. In today’s episode, ‘Do Not Harbor That Hurt,’ we’re stepping into one of Jesus’ most practical and challenging teachings in Matthew 18:15–35. In this passage, Jesus directly addresses conflict, forgiveness, correction, repentance, mercy, and judgment. And if we’re honest, every one of us has walked into this room carrying scars from people who wounded us. Let’s open God’s Word together and see what Jesus has to say about the hurts we’ve received… and the ones we’ve caused.

Beloved, today we stand at the shore with Peter, in John 21. The beauty of this passage is that Jesus did not only forgive Peter privately—He restored him publicly, purposefully, and lovingly. Peter had failed at a charcoal fire, but by that same fire, Jesus brought him back—not to condemn, but to heal. You see, Jesus often brings us back to the place of our greatest failure—not to shame us, but to redeem us.

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Rivers In The Wilderness spoken at New Life Lutheran on Pentecost Sunday

Part 1 - Book of Numbers 11:24–30

Part 2 - Acts of the Apostles 2:1–21

Part 3 - Gospel of John 7:37–39

Part 4 - Second Epistle to Timothy 3:16

Church, there are moments in Scripture where heaven seems to lean down close to earth. Moments where God says, “I will not leave My people dry, empty, powerless, or wandering.”

Today’s readings are tied together by one great promise:

God desires to pour out His Spirit upon His people.

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“I See the Broken Church, I See the People Wandering” is a heartfelt response to a message Pastors Kevin received from the Lord. In this powerful podcast, listeners are called to hear the voice of God speaking to His Church—His bride, His beloved. With a prophetic and revival-centered message, Pastors Kevin and Sandy invite believers to listen not only with their ears, but with their spirit, as the Lord calls His people back to truth, repentance, healing, and renewal. #TheGospelTrail #apleaforprayer #lamentprayer at pgn.church

Christians should have no fear of what is coming or happening around us, for Scripture assures us that the chaos and darkness of this age are not the final word. There is coming a day when it will be all over, when the night that seems so long will give way to unending dawn. As Paul wrote, “The night is nearly over. The day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light” (Romans 13:12). The Day of the Lord is not a rumor or a story we tell children; it is the certain moment when everything false collapses under the weight of truth, every shadow flees before the light, and every tear is wiped away by the hand of the One who has already overcome the world. In that hope we stand secure, armored in light, unafraid because our King is coming soon. #TheGospelTrail "Rise and Have No Fear Continued" #nowplaying at pgn.church