This Week
Announcements
Church Wide Small Group Campaign
Sunday, September 17th
The Bridge Church Reno
We will be starting a 6 week church wide small group campaign based off the book “8-15 Your World Is Smaller Than You Think.” This book is going to help us better live out our mission and vision here at the Bridge. We are encouraging every Bridge attender to become part of a small group during those six weeks. We will continue sign ups for small groups this Sunday. Please visit the small group table in the welcome center to sign up. If you are willing to host a small group please plan on attending a short briefing after church this Sunday.
Worship Night and Ice Cream Social
Saturday, September 23rd @ 5-7p
The Bridge Church Reno
Come join us for an evening of worship and fun. We will be hosting a worship night and ice cream social on the evening of September 23rd. We will come together for a time of worship music and singing and enjoy some ice cream afterward. This will be a great time of worship and fellowship that you won’t want to miss.
Sunday, September 17th
The Bridge Church Reno
We will be starting a 6 week church wide small group campaign based off the book “8-15 Your World Is Smaller Than You Think.” This book is going to help us better live out our mission and vision here at the Bridge. We are encouraging every Bridge attender to become part of a small group during those six weeks. We will continue sign ups for small groups this Sunday. Please visit the small group table in the welcome center to sign up. If you are willing to host a small group please plan on attending a short briefing after church this Sunday.
Worship Night and Ice Cream Social
Saturday, September 23rd @ 5-7p
The Bridge Church Reno
Come join us for an evening of worship and fun. We will be hosting a worship night and ice cream social on the evening of September 23rd. We will come together for a time of worship music and singing and enjoy some ice cream afterward. This will be a great time of worship and fellowship that you won’t want to miss.
Message Notes
God’s Plan to Reach the World
September 17, 2023
Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
Authority
Power
Promise
Bottom Line: We Must Embrace God’s Plan for the World
Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
Matthew 28:18–20
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.Acts 1:8
Authority
Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Matthew 28:18
The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy.
Colossians 1:15–18
Power
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses
Acts 1:8
Changed Life
You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead, they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.
Matthew 5:14–16
Early Church Community Distinctiveness that did not fit the normal categories of the time that is needed today-not as a strategy to reach the world but as commitment to the teachings of Scripture.
- Multi-racial and multi-ethnic.
- Highly committed to caring for the poor and marginalized.
- Non-retaliatory, marked by a commitment to forgiveness.
- Strongly and practically against abortion and infanticide.
- Revolutionary regarding the ethics of sex.
Spoken Words
How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?
Romans 10:14
People
Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.
Matthew 28:19–20
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
Acts 1:8
Oikos
extended household which includes your family, friends, neighbors, and co-workers. The relationships that God has strategically placed in your life that you naturally connect with on a regular basis." 8-15 people with whom you share life.
Michael Green
“Over 80% of the evangelism in early church was done by ordinary Christians through their “oikos”
Tom Mercer:
“Ninety-five percent of Christian conversions are generated through a personal relationship that is shared between a believer and someone who is close to them.”
Promise
And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.
Matthew 28:20
Bottom Line: We Must Embrace God’s Plan for the World
Small Groups Talk About It
No discussion questions for this week.