The Mission of The Church
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Dr. Andrew Sandlin talks about the church and culture. In this clip he describes the Churches Mission and a focus that is often neglected.
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- The church is multiplied by the preaching of the gospel, and God's plan is not for people who when they trust in Jesus Christ to sort of go off to the beach and get in love with Jesus while walking along the beach or paddle boarding or whatever.
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- It is to become a member of a specific local body that's true to the gospel and true to the word.
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- That's one way to multiply the church. I must say also though the Bible's quite clear that when we, those within the church have children and bring them up within the faith, that is a form of multiplication.
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- People often joke about that, but in the end we really shouldn't joke about it. That's one way that the church multiplies.
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- Shouldn't be the only way, but it certainly is one way. So when we think about that, when we think about the mission of the church, we need to understand that the church is not an end in itself.
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- Several of us were talking about this just recently, the church that is always adding new wings, new Sunday school wings, the new fellowship hall, and new programs.
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- Nothing inherently wrong with that. Your church grows. You might need that. That's fine. But if you think the important thing is simply getting more people into the church so that we can build a bigger wing, so we can have a new
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- AWANA program, so we can have a new seven step recovery program or whatever, you are sadly mistaken.
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- The goal of the church, the mission of the church is to extend the kingdom of God, to extend the reign of God on the earth.
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- Now, not every church can do everything, but every church should be looking outward to extend the reign of God.
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- Again, what is the reign of God? When people are submitting to Jesus Christ, to the gospel and its purity, and to the word of God and influencing others to do that in every area of life, not just churchy things, not just churchy things, but in medicine and in art and literature and education and science and technology and in all sorts of areas, then the church is fulfilling its mission.
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- The church that simply wants to be incestuous, to remain within itself, is not fulfilling its mission.
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- And this is why, listen carefully to me here because this is really vital. How is it possible, where I come from in California, please forgive me for that, how is it possible that in large urban areas, as megachurches increase in size, that the culture around them becomes more depraved?
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- How does one explain that? Well, it's often the case that they're not spreading the reign of God, and that's how it's possible for the church as an institute to become larger without fulfilling its mission, which was to extend the kingdom of God on the earth.