#476: The Church — The Church in the World
Allen Jackson Ministries
Ben Hayes
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
It's critical for the Church to be in the world—but it's destructive for the world to be in the Church. In this sermon, Pastor Allen Jackson discusses the Church's important role as a gatekeeper against evil and darkness. Jesus didn't come to condemn us, but to save us—and we have an opportunity to take this eternity-changing message to those around us. As we invite the Holy Spirit's help, we can move beyond having a theoretical faith to becoming effective advocates for His Kingdom. Pastor Allen offers Scripture to show how God is continually working to transform our minds, bodies, and spirits into something new.
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| 0:00.0 | And somehow we've allowed this myth to grow in us that it doesn't really matter. |
| 0:11.5 | We don't really have to be together. We need a personal salvation and know that we're going to go to heaven and the rest of it's just kind of decoration or that is not a biblical perspective. |
| 0:25.0 | And we're going to have to fight for it. |
| 0:28.0 | We're going to have to have a determination, an expression, an assertive expression of our faith. |
| 0:37.0 | And we're going to lose our freedom. |
| 0:40.0 | You're listening to Alan Jackson Ministries. You can get the outlines for this |
| 0:45.6 | episode at Alan Jackson.com slash podcast. If these messages help build you up or |
| 0:51.2 | encourage you to be a more fully devoted Christ follower, |
| 0:55.0 | leave us a five star rating and review. |
| 0:58.0 | Hopefully that will help others find out about them as well. |
| 1:01.0 | Now it's on to Pastor Allen. Be blessed. |
| 1:07.0 | We're walking through a little series under the general heading of the church. |
| 1:11.0 | And in this session I want to talk specifically about the church in the world. |
| 1:15.0 | You know I heard it many years ago and I think it's a pretty good description that |
| 1:21.0 | it said a ship in the sea is a good thing but the sea and the ship is a bad thing. |
| 1:25.0 | And the church in the world is an important thing, but the world in the church is a destructive thing. |
| 1:33.0 | And honestly, I think we've gotten a bit confused. |
| 1:37.0 | I think the church in my lifetime, |
| 1:40.0 | I can speak to that with more authority has had an unhealthy interest in the |
| 1:46.4 | approval of the world. We're called apart, we're called to be different. I don't expect us to be fully embraced or fully |
| 1:55.4 | understood or always applauded by the people who have not chosen to |
| 1:59.8 | acknowledge Jesus is Lord. And if we're not willing to bear that difference, |
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