ACTS SERIES: "A Mission Only the Church Can Stop"

Sermon Scripture:  Acts 21:1-16

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Sermon Notes:

One Important Question:
Is it possible to be completely obedient to the mission of Christ and have the __________ try to stop you?
There are two ways people view this passage…

• Paul’s Unstoppable ____________
• Paul’s Big ____________

To go to Jerusalem or not?

• For Paul, there was no ____________ to be made…
• He was already _________ . He was only following in Jesus’ footsteps.
• For Paul, the glory of the name of Jesus and his reputation in the world were more important than _______ .

Satan’s attempts to stop the gospel actually serve to spread the gospel…

• The pain of our shattered plans is for the purpose of _____________ grace.
• What obedience will not achieve, ______________ will.
• Persecution can have harmful effects on the church, but _____________ can be even more devastating.

What do you do when the church stands in the way?

• It is possible that the people who love us may try to __________ us from the cross.
• There are three dangers for us…
  1. Beware of assuming you know God’s will for someone else’s life.
  2. Beware of thinking the will of God only includes our comfort and does not include pain or suffering.
  3. Beware of neglecting God’s good while only thinking of your own good.

In God’s kingdom…

• We are never promised ___________.
• We are only promised ___________.

The cost of discipleship…

• Jesus does not offer us ____________ ...
• Jesus only offers a ____________.

Our mission…

• To show the world that God is _________.
• To tell the world that God is ___________.
• To display to the world that God is ____________.

What is your gospel ambition?

• Are we going to be a church that __________ this mission?
• Or will we be a church that _______________ to this mission?