In the second sermon in the Acts series, we looked at what a Christian church is and what a Christian church is supposed to be doing in the world. We concluded that the church is a public gathering of the citizens of God’s Kingdom made up of those who have believed and professed that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God.Every believer is part of the church and every church is a part of the unstoppable mission to make disciples of the nations. In Matthew 28, Jesus give His disciples a very simple strategy for accomplishing this mission: 1) Share the Gospel with those who don’t know Jesus, 2) Unite new believers to the church through baptism and biblical community, 3) teach new believers to obey all that Jesus has commanded and 4) empower new believers to share the Gospel with those who don’t know Jesus. Through this strategy, the church has grown from 120 believers to over 2 billion believers over 2000 years. The church is the movement of God’s Kingdom, expanding and growing by taking the Gospel to the ends of the earth.
