Innovative
Harris Creek Baptist Church
Harris Creek
4.8 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
While the message of salvation through Jesus remains unchanged, the Church should creatively adapt how it reaches people. The heart of innovation in ministry is service, and its purpose is to bring people closer to Jesus. Ultimately, the joy of innovation is sharing in the blessings of transformed lives and faith.
The Posture of Innovation is Service
The Purpose of Innovation is Salvation
The Prize of Innovation is sharing in the blessings of the gospel
Life Group Discussion:
How does the story of the Thai soccer team rescue illustrate the urgency of innovation in ministry, and how does that relate to the Church's mission to reach the lost?
Think about a time when you focused on your own preferences in church (worship style, message, etc.). How could you reframe your perspective to prioritize how the church can serve and reach others, rather than meeting your own expectations?
When you think about the people in your life who don’t know Jesus, how can you innovate the way you interact with them to help bring them closer to salvation?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Let's go, yeah. |
| 0:05.7 | Great bumper video, let's go. |
| 0:07.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:08.7 | So June 23rd, 2018 was an important day because there was a middle school soccer team in Thailand that had soccer practice. |
| 0:18.2 | Now that's not why it's important, but what made that day stand out is because |
| 0:22.5 | that team had soccer practice, and then they didn't come back from soccer practice. Their parents |
| 0:29.2 | kept waiting by the door that night, and their kids simply weren't coming home, so those parents |
| 0:33.7 | got together. They organized a search party, and they searched all over the place to try to find their kids. Where did they go after soccer practice? And after searching throughout |
| 0:41.7 | their whole town, they found a bunch of bikes that had been laid over to the side and backpacks |
| 0:47.5 | in front of a mouth of a cave. In front of this cave was a warning sign that said, do not enter this cave during rainy season. |
| 0:57.0 | It had just rained that afternoon. |
| 1:00.0 | So what happened was these kids, these middle schoolers, went into the cave and it rained, |
| 1:05.0 | and that rain flooded the cave and it pushed them further back and back into the cave. |
| 1:10.0 | And there was no way of getting to them because the water was blocking the entry. |
| 1:14.7 | So people got together from really all over the world, but specifically in Thailand, Navy |
| 1:19.8 | Seals in Thailand, went into the cave and searched the cave for day after day after day and |
| 1:25.0 | couldn't find them until day nine when they finally got 2.5 miles in. |
| 1:31.3 | Someone reached them, and here's a picture of them. |
| 1:34.2 | After nine days, they were in this cave. |
| 1:37.3 | So they were found, the problem was, |
| 1:41.5 | there was really no good ideas |
| 1:43.4 | and how to get them out of the cave. |
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