Preacher: Jeremy Herbert

Text: Acts 21:1-25

Thesis: The local church is worthy my courageous, costly commitment to its spiritual health and unity.

Notes:

Thomas Helwys, Baptist who fled England in the 1600s to flee persecution by the state church.

He later returned to England knowing what it might cost him–he was imprisoned and died in prison 8 years later.

* Health

* We are called to dedicate ourselves to the spiritual and physical health

of our church family at great personal cost.

* C. T. Studd, “…I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.”

* Every family is messy–and  each local church family is no different.

* John Knox, “Give me Scotland or I die.”