I'm Saved. Now What? Week 1 - Don't Forget About Me (Matthew 13:18-23)

After we give our lives to God, why does change not last like we want it to?

Orientation - The Mission of the Rock - Get In the Game (Gospel-centered Multiplication) - Matthew 5:13-16

The mission of the Church is to make disciples who make disciples who make disciples who... you get it. If we don't connect with others and walk alongside them intentionally, how can we expect anyone to be persuaded to surrender to Him?

Orientation - The Mission of the Rock - Fire Burns, Pruning Cuts (Gospel-centered Faith and Service) - John 15:1-11

Orientation - The Mission of the Rock - One Nation, Under God (Gospel-centered Community) - Galatians 3:27-29; 1 Peter 2:9-10

Two things are true about the Church: 1) We are one body, and 2) our bodies will embody the culture we exist in. Nevertheless, God cares more about what unites us than what divides us. We should not elevate our differences as greater than Jesus, period.

Orientation - The Mission of The Rock - Just Give Me Jesus (Gospel-centered Worship) - 1 Corinthians 2:1-5

The local church's worship services must remember that Jesus is the center of everything done in it. To remove Christ from the worship service is to relegate our Sunday morning gatherings to weekly motivational speech conferences. We don't make it church. Jesus does!

We exist to bring God glory by making disciples. Is your life worth following? Does your life imitate Jesus? Should someone be influenced by your walk to follow the Jesus you serve? Are our churches pointing people to Jesus?

What does it mean to glorify God? God, through Christ's finished work, gives a heart that asks the question, "How can I glorify You today?"

Baptism and Communion are more important than we think they are. If Jesus takes them seriously, why don't we?

As a member of a local body of believers, I have a responsibility to my church, and my church has a responsibility to me. This week, we learn what those responsibilities are so that we can grow as the body of Christ God intends us to become.

Today we discuss Jesus's unmatched love for His Church and our place in it. We cannot love God without loving His Church.

The Holy Spirit empowers us to live out our faith through the fruit of the Spirit and our God-given abilities purposed to be used for His glory.

Who is the Holy Spirit? This week, we learn that the Holy Spirit's job is to convict, comfort, and empower us as we are being sanctified to look and act more like Jesus for the glory of God.

Sanctification is the ongoing work of the Holy Spirit making us more like Jesus as we are living in the Kingdom awaiting for the Day when the Kingdom will indeed come.

What is salvation? What has Jesus saved us from? What has He saved us for? And how did He do it?

There is a game plan written by God, and each of us have been strategically placed on the field to execute it. Why are we sometimes sitting on the sidelines?

The Gospel is the announcement that salvation and the Kingdom have come through Jesus. That announcement ORIENTS us to a new life in Him.

Once we are saved, our lives become an ongoing pursuit of becoming more like Jesus. We discuss how our pursuit of holiness is not a reflection of our eternal position in Jesus.

You are equipped to do the work of the ministry. And that work is to be done wherever you are.

Jesus reminds us that the love that sent Him to the cross is the same love that should compel us to love one another in all ways.

Abraham reminds us that our future is tied to our obedience to God today, and God will often require our obedience to show us where our love for Him truly lies.