WEBVTT 00:00:09.940 --> 00:00:12.679 Hey everyone, this is Josh from Encounter Church 00:00:12.679 --> 00:00:15.279 Henley and thanks so much for tuning into our 00:00:15.279 --> 00:00:19.000 podcast. Our prayer is that through this podcast, 00:00:19.019 --> 00:00:20.879 you can have an encounter with Jesus that'll 00:00:20.879 --> 00:00:24.379 change your life. And now get ready for an inspiring 00:00:24.379 --> 00:00:33.479 message from our preaching team. You see, the 00:00:33.479 --> 00:00:35.159 Brisbane Lions are actually an interesting story. 00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:37.460 They're an amalgamation of two different teams 00:00:37.460 --> 00:00:41.159 that are lions, an ancient, old VFL site. How 00:00:41.159 --> 00:00:45.939 to be one. When Ash and I got married, we had 00:00:45.939 --> 00:00:48.740 to work out how to be one family when we come 00:00:48.740 --> 00:00:52.500 from two very, very different families. We had 00:00:52.500 --> 00:00:54.500 different family makeups, different conflict 00:00:54.500 --> 00:00:57.619 styles, different traditions, different ways 00:00:57.619 --> 00:01:01.210 of being family. My dad was a plumber and then 00:01:01.210 --> 00:01:05.170 he was a pastor and Ash's dad was a pilot and 00:01:05.170 --> 00:01:08.569 has always been a pilot. My parents came to faith 00:01:08.569 --> 00:01:12.450 as 16 year olds in a youth group. One of her 00:01:12.450 --> 00:01:15.069 parents is like a new agey agnostic and the other 00:01:15.069 --> 00:01:19.810 one is a practicing Buddhist. Together we had 00:01:19.810 --> 00:01:22.590 to work out how to be one, to be a new family 00:01:22.590 --> 00:01:24.349 in the difference we brought to the relationship. 00:01:25.289 --> 00:01:27.650 When you have differences, when you come from 00:01:27.650 --> 00:01:30.670 different places and yet you come together as 00:01:30.670 --> 00:01:33.430 one, like in a football merger or like in a marriage 00:01:33.430 --> 00:01:38.049 or like in an Encounter family camp, we have 00:01:38.049 --> 00:01:42.090 to work out how to be one. And here at our family 00:01:42.090 --> 00:01:44.349 camp we have represented the Enfield Uniting 00:01:44.349 --> 00:01:46.810 Morning Congregation, we have our Henley Church 00:01:46.810 --> 00:01:49.890 Plan and Encounter Prospect, or soon -to -be 00:01:49.890 --> 00:01:53.689 Encounter Enfield I suppose. God has brought 00:01:53.689 --> 00:01:56.290 these three communities together as one family. 00:01:56.670 --> 00:01:59.950 And the question we have to ask is how do we 00:01:59.950 --> 00:02:05.750 be one family, united in our differences? And 00:02:05.750 --> 00:02:07.650 this is what the crisis of planting a church 00:02:07.650 --> 00:02:10.610 like Henley has created and the crisis of amalgamating 00:02:10.610 --> 00:02:13.550 Enfield and Prospect has created, because there 00:02:13.550 --> 00:02:17.280 are differences. Things have changed. people 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:19.599 have changed, people have moved away or moved 00:02:19.599 --> 00:02:22.580 on. We have grown as a church both bigger and 00:02:22.580 --> 00:02:25.539 wider. And there are differences in the church 00:02:25.539 --> 00:02:27.620 communities who make up this family. We have 00:02:27.620 --> 00:02:30.219 different demographics, different personalities. 00:02:30.460 --> 00:02:32.620 Tex is taking applications for another extrovert 00:02:32.620 --> 00:02:36.560 at Hanley. So if you want to put in your application, 00:02:36.840 --> 00:02:39.879 he would really like some backup and support 00:02:39.879 --> 00:02:45.099 and a bit of enthusiasm. We have different communities 00:02:45.099 --> 00:02:49.110 that we're trying to reach. And guys, we actually 00:02:49.110 --> 00:02:52.490 want this. We want this. This is the mission 00:02:52.490 --> 00:02:55.250 of God that God has given in Counter Church Adelaide. 00:02:56.330 --> 00:02:58.289 We want to be a growing family of Bible -fed 00:02:58.289 --> 00:03:00.370 and Spirit -led churches multiplying resilient 00:03:00.370 --> 00:03:03.909 disciples across Adelaide. And this is just the 00:03:03.909 --> 00:03:08.449 beginning. More difference is coming. More people, 00:03:08.590 --> 00:03:11.430 more communities, more demographics. But how 00:03:11.430 --> 00:03:14.629 do we be one family in all our difference? Not 00:03:14.629 --> 00:03:18.099 just now. But as Encounter Adelaide grows as 00:03:18.099 --> 00:03:21.120 well, how do we be a good family of churches 00:03:21.120 --> 00:03:26.240 at that? Well, we have a shared name, Encounter. 00:03:27.139 --> 00:03:30.379 Is that enough to help us be a great family? 00:03:31.300 --> 00:03:34.159 I don't think sharing a name is a guarantee of 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:37.520 a good family. Well, we have the same DNA. We 00:03:37.520 --> 00:03:39.759 all have the same core values. Jesus, generous 00:03:39.759 --> 00:03:44.039 people, real. Is that enough? I don't think having 00:03:44.039 --> 00:03:47.259 one family in your difference requires you to 00:03:47.259 --> 00:03:49.340 merge. They had to create a new shared identity 00:03:49.340 --> 00:03:52.860 together. Fitzroy got to keep the name, the Lions, 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:55.780 the Guernsey, their song, most of their football 00:03:55.780 --> 00:03:57.819 operations, the father -sons, their history, 00:03:58.139 --> 00:04:01.159 and the Bears got to stay in Brisbane. Good for 00:04:01.159 --> 00:04:04.759 them. And in the years following their merger, 00:04:05.039 --> 00:04:06.939 Brisbane became very successful. They won three 00:04:06.939 --> 00:04:09.819 flags in a row, blending the best of both and 00:04:09.819 --> 00:04:13.039 living into their shared identity. But they wouldn't 00:04:13.039 --> 00:04:15.219 have been they wouldn't have reached the success 00:04:15.219 --> 00:04:16.939 that they reach in the early 2000s if they're 00:04:16.939 --> 00:04:19.100 walking around at training saying well I'm a 00:04:19.100 --> 00:04:23.339 Fitzroy player and you're a Bears player They 00:04:23.339 --> 00:04:25.620 found success when they could all say I'm a Brisbane 00:04:25.620 --> 00:04:28.980 Lions player And that's the thing isn't it you 00:04:28.980 --> 00:04:31.139 like you can call yourself a family and you can 00:04:31.139 --> 00:04:33.759 share a name and you can share DNA and you can 00:04:33.759 --> 00:04:36.180 bring together two different families in marriage, 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:38.569 but you aren't one family. You can't be one family 00:04:38.569 --> 00:04:41.110 until you live into that shared identity that 00:04:41.110 --> 00:04:42.850 you have. You have to live into it. We have to 00:04:42.850 --> 00:04:47.389 live like one family. And until we know what 00:04:47.389 --> 00:04:49.750 it means to be a part of this family, this Encounter 00:04:49.750 --> 00:04:52.649 Adelaide one family, we will struggle to be one 00:04:52.649 --> 00:04:56.009 in all of our growing difference. So I want to 00:04:56.009 --> 00:04:58.329 put to you that as the family of churches of 00:04:58.329 --> 00:05:01.350 Encounter grows over the next decade, that a 00:05:01.350 --> 00:05:03.350 shared name and a shared DNA will not help us 00:05:03.350 --> 00:05:07.300 be an excellent family. Good families they reinforce 00:05:07.300 --> 00:05:09.500 their shared identity through difference and 00:05:09.500 --> 00:05:13.019 in their difference with family values And what 00:05:13.019 --> 00:05:15.379 we need I think is family values to help us know 00:05:15.379 --> 00:05:19.120 what it means to be an encounter person You see 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:22.740 our friends They have a great way of reinforcing 00:05:22.740 --> 00:05:24.459 with their kids what it means to be a part of 00:05:24.459 --> 00:05:27.100 their family What it means to be a part of insert 00:05:27.100 --> 00:05:29.300 last name. Let's just let's just pick a name 00:05:29.300 --> 00:05:34.170 like feel for just just just out of No context 00:05:34.170 --> 00:05:37.410 whatsoever. So what does it mean? They ask their 00:05:37.410 --> 00:05:39.550 kids, hey, what does it mean to be a Thillthorpe? 00:05:39.870 --> 00:05:41.470 Thillthorpe kicked three goals against Portia, 00:05:41.569 --> 00:05:46.250 so just put it out there. And they reply, and 00:05:46.250 --> 00:05:47.649 the kids, because they've coached their kids, 00:05:47.709 --> 00:05:49.149 they reply, this is what it means to be a part 00:05:49.149 --> 00:05:52.610 of my family. We are brave, we are strong, and 00:05:52.610 --> 00:05:56.009 we are kind, just like Jesus. That's what their 00:05:56.009 --> 00:05:58.759 shared family identity is like. They've coached 00:05:58.759 --> 00:06:00.879 this over their years to reinforce their family 00:06:00.879 --> 00:06:04.040 values. What it means to be a person, a part 00:06:04.040 --> 00:06:07.920 of their family. And I think we need that. I 00:06:07.920 --> 00:06:09.519 think we need to know what it means to be an 00:06:09.519 --> 00:06:12.160 encounter person. Whether you're from Enfield, 00:06:12.399 --> 00:06:15.360 Henley, Church Plant 3, Church Plant 4, Church 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:19.540 Plant 5, Church Plant 6. So what I've done is 00:06:19.540 --> 00:06:22.180 I've taken every ism that we have in encounter. 00:06:23.060 --> 00:06:26.399 All of them. Prospect as it is in paradise. I 00:06:26.399 --> 00:06:29.360 don't know if you guys use that. Let your Sundays 00:06:29.360 --> 00:06:32.379 invade your Mondays. The power of God is in the 00:06:32.379 --> 00:06:36.000 people of God. I've taken them all, future focus, 00:06:36.100 --> 00:06:38.899 and I've boiled them down. I've condensed them 00:06:38.899 --> 00:06:41.500 into three family values that I want to put to 00:06:41.500 --> 00:06:44.600 you today as a way of reinforcing our shared 00:06:44.600 --> 00:06:47.720 identity as encounter church. And look, it may 00:06:47.720 --> 00:06:51.600 lack the wardrobe marketing touch, but just bear 00:06:51.600 --> 00:06:57.019 with me here. Here are three family values of 00:06:57.019 --> 00:06:58.879 what it means to be a part. of the family. What 00:06:58.879 --> 00:07:02.060 an encounter person looks like. So I think, I 00:07:02.060 --> 00:07:05.600 think Paul, he's called Saul in this, but Paul, 00:07:05.939 --> 00:07:09.839 Paul and Barnabas are encounter people. Our family 00:07:09.839 --> 00:07:12.699 values are in this passage. And here's the first 00:07:12.699 --> 00:07:16.879 one. A gigantic God. See an encounter, we believe 00:07:16.879 --> 00:07:20.259 in a gigantic God. When God is small, you feel 00:07:20.259 --> 00:07:22.079 alone in the world. You feel the crushing weight 00:07:22.079 --> 00:07:24.959 of reality. You feel the sense of anxiety for 00:07:24.959 --> 00:07:28.680 all there is to do. But when God is big, we can 00:07:28.680 --> 00:07:33.160 rest. We can trust. God is above us and before 00:07:33.160 --> 00:07:35.839 us. God surrounds us. He's with us in the darkest 00:07:35.839 --> 00:07:39.279 valleys and the highest mountains. When God is 00:07:39.279 --> 00:07:42.240 small, some things are possible. But when God 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:46.339 is big, anything is possible. When God is small, 00:07:46.360 --> 00:07:48.480 you are floating aimlessly on a rock through 00:07:48.480 --> 00:07:51.360 space, meaningless and purposeless. When God 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:55.120 is big, You are floating on the river of expectation 00:07:55.120 --> 00:07:57.839 that God could do anything in you, around you 00:07:57.839 --> 00:08:00.860 and through you. When God is small, death is 00:08:00.860 --> 00:08:03.839 terrifying and life is insecure. But when God 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:06.439 is big, wherever you are, whatever you face, 00:08:06.519 --> 00:08:09.220 even if it's death itself, you are secure in 00:08:09.220 --> 00:08:13.279 Christ Jesus. You expect a big God to move. You 00:08:13.279 --> 00:08:16.899 expect a big God to lead you. You expect a big 00:08:16.899 --> 00:08:20.480 God to move without you. See, we believe in a 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:23.060 gigantic God at Encounter. And if we didn't, 00:08:23.060 --> 00:08:24.720 we wouldn't have planted a church and we would 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:27.920 not be seeking to plant any more churches. And 00:08:27.920 --> 00:08:30.180 in this passage in Acts 13, you see the evidence 00:08:30.180 --> 00:08:33.220 of the early church of Paul and Barnabas. They 00:08:33.220 --> 00:08:36.360 believe in a gigantic God. they're worshipping 00:08:36.360 --> 00:08:38.799 and fasting one day and the spirit says off you 00:08:38.799 --> 00:08:41.259 go send out Barnabas and Paul and so they do 00:08:41.259 --> 00:08:44.159 that they go from Antioch to Cyprus where they 00:08:44.159 --> 00:08:46.580 find a Judean sorcerer who's running interference 00:08:46.580 --> 00:08:49.200 trying to keep them away from a governor of that 00:08:49.200 --> 00:08:51.240 region because the governor wants to hear what 00:08:51.240 --> 00:08:55.299 Paul and Barnabas have to say and so Paul full 00:08:55.299 --> 00:08:57.639 of the spirit looks this man in the eye he looks 00:08:57.639 --> 00:09:00.559 him in the eye this very influential and powerful 00:09:00.559 --> 00:09:05.360 man a dangerous man to look in the eye declares 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:08.340 or calls down whatever is going on here the power 00:09:08.340 --> 00:09:11.000 of God to blind this sorcerer and he falls blind 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:13.039 and the governor doesn't have to hear what these 00:09:13.039 --> 00:09:15.480 men have to say to believe he believes what he 00:09:15.480 --> 00:09:18.580 sees which is the power of God and this is this 00:09:18.580 --> 00:09:22.580 is such boldness from Paul how secure does a 00:09:22.580 --> 00:09:26.100 woman or a man need to be to stare down powerful 00:09:26.100 --> 00:09:29.019 people and oppose them and declare the power 00:09:29.019 --> 00:09:32.620 of God over them they have to be very secure 00:09:33.500 --> 00:09:36.240 And Paul is very secure, and Paul is very secure 00:09:36.240 --> 00:09:39.519 because he believes in a gigantic God. And we 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:43.019 don't try to make God small, but we allow him 00:09:43.019 --> 00:09:46.019 to be what he is, bigger than we even have the 00:09:46.019 --> 00:09:49.100 words to express. We actually find that we are 00:09:49.100 --> 00:09:51.220 in the safest place in the universe, because 00:09:51.220 --> 00:09:57.059 we are held in his hands. We are secure, even 00:09:57.059 --> 00:09:59.690 though it might be insanity out there. we are 00:09:59.690 --> 00:10:02.830 hidden with Christ. We can stand up, we can speak 00:10:02.830 --> 00:10:05.970 out, we can take risks, and that security gives 00:10:05.970 --> 00:10:08.730 us a boldness to live for Jesus, to give, to 00:10:08.730 --> 00:10:11.549 serve, to sacrifice, and to get drastic in our 00:10:11.549 --> 00:10:14.450 pursuit of God and His Kingdom. You see an encounter 00:10:14.450 --> 00:10:18.230 person has a gigantic God, and because we have 00:10:18.230 --> 00:10:21.870 a gigantic God that makes us secure, we can actually 00:10:21.870 --> 00:10:24.769 become drastic disciples, and that's our second 00:10:24.769 --> 00:10:28.960 family value. Drastic disciples. Drastic disciples 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:32.500 leave no stone unturned in their pursuit of Jesus, 00:10:32.659 --> 00:10:36.299 the Kingdom of God and others. Drastic disciples 00:10:36.299 --> 00:10:38.980 leave the boat to get out of the water with Jesus. 00:10:39.580 --> 00:10:42.879 Drastic disciples kill the soul -sucking voice 00:10:42.879 --> 00:10:45.720 of reasonableness. The voice that tells you you 00:10:45.720 --> 00:10:48.419 should sit down, be quiet, keep that to yourself. 00:10:49.220 --> 00:10:51.659 Drastic disciples see the need of the moment. 00:10:51.799 --> 00:10:54.120 There are a million people in Adelaide who are 00:10:54.120 --> 00:10:56.820 not alive to God who have not declared Jesus 00:10:56.820 --> 00:11:00.539 as Lord. They see the need, the need of the moment 00:11:00.539 --> 00:11:03.639 and they rise to it. They serve, they invite, 00:11:03.700 --> 00:11:05.899 they preach the gospel with their words and their 00:11:05.899 --> 00:11:08.539 lives. They give, they see everything as a gift 00:11:08.539 --> 00:11:11.360 from the Lord to be given back to him. They cut 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:13.759 out the stuff in their lives that has absolutely 00:11:13.759 --> 00:11:17.179 no redemptive value. They simplify, they forgive, 00:11:17.379 --> 00:11:20.490 they hold people to account. They spend their 00:11:20.490 --> 00:11:22.409 lives for the good of the lonely, the lost, and 00:11:22.409 --> 00:11:25.210 the least. Drastic disciples get drastic about 00:11:25.210 --> 00:11:28.629 the mission of God, the lost, and their own holiness 00:11:28.629 --> 00:11:31.789 and lives. Drastic disciples, they reorient their 00:11:31.789 --> 00:11:33.549 whole lives around the leading of the Spirit, 00:11:33.950 --> 00:11:36.549 where they live, what they drive, what they study, 00:11:36.649 --> 00:11:39.090 where they work, how they use their money or 00:11:39.090 --> 00:11:42.409 their bodies on how they recreate. Everything 00:11:42.409 --> 00:11:45.320 is different. for a drastic disciple because 00:11:45.320 --> 00:11:48.259 they're a new creation being made into the image 00:11:48.259 --> 00:11:53.480 of Christ in reality not just in theology. Drastic 00:11:53.480 --> 00:11:55.080 disciples they get out of their comfort zone 00:11:55.080 --> 00:11:57.500 because they will know they will not grow in 00:11:57.500 --> 00:12:00.360 the comfort zone nothing grows in the comfort 00:12:00.360 --> 00:12:05.120 zone. Drastic disciples get over themselves so 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:06.940 that others can find themselves in the family 00:12:06.940 --> 00:12:09.960 of God. You see drastic disciples they see the 00:12:09.960 --> 00:12:12.240 need of the moment that it is drastic and they 00:12:12.240 --> 00:12:14.870 rise to meet it. And despite the difficulty, 00:12:15.289 --> 00:12:18.350 they actually can rise to meet it because they're 00:12:18.350 --> 00:12:20.309 secure. They're in the hands of their gigantic 00:12:20.309 --> 00:12:24.269 God. And Paul and Barnabas are drastic disciples. 00:12:24.789 --> 00:12:27.710 They uproot their lives to follow the call of 00:12:27.710 --> 00:12:31.169 God over and over and over again. They preach 00:12:31.169 --> 00:12:33.570 their way in this passage town by town across 00:12:33.570 --> 00:12:36.470 the island of Cyprus. Cyprus is not big, but 00:12:36.470 --> 00:12:39.039 it's not exactly small either. It's like the 00:12:39.039 --> 00:12:41.820 size of Greater Sydney area, right? So imagine 00:12:41.820 --> 00:12:44.639 preaching your way through Greater Sydney, town 00:12:44.639 --> 00:12:47.779 by town, street by street. This is what they're 00:12:47.779 --> 00:12:51.700 doing. They chase every lead. They leave no stone 00:12:51.700 --> 00:12:53.779 unturned in pursuit of what God's doing in every 00:12:53.779 --> 00:12:56.700 place. And that brings a governor, a man of power 00:12:56.700 --> 00:13:00.259 and influence to faith in Jesus Christ. What 00:13:00.259 --> 00:13:03.320 could God do through the drastic disciples that 00:13:03.320 --> 00:13:05.620 are in this room and the ones who aren't in this 00:13:05.620 --> 00:13:07.580 room who are a part of the encounter family? 00:13:10.089 --> 00:13:13.409 anything, anything. An encounter person is a 00:13:13.409 --> 00:13:17.129 drastic disciple. And the third family value 00:13:17.129 --> 00:13:20.750 we have is a multiplying mindset. The mission 00:13:20.750 --> 00:13:22.529 of the early church does not reside within one 00:13:22.529 --> 00:13:24.610 or two people, but it's like a rock thrown into 00:13:24.610 --> 00:13:27.070 a pond. It ripples out and out and out and out. 00:13:27.710 --> 00:13:29.549 The early church is full of people who is God's 00:13:29.549 --> 00:13:31.970 Word and produce a harvest of 30, 60 or even 00:13:31.970 --> 00:13:33.669 more. I'm not good at maths, that's not my job, 00:13:34.070 --> 00:13:36.610 but multiplication sounds better than addition. 00:13:37.800 --> 00:13:41.419 It just sounds better and easier. And you can 00:13:41.419 --> 00:13:44.820 see in Acts 13 that multiplying is the mindset, 00:13:44.919 --> 00:13:47.179 not just of the church and the early disciples, 00:13:47.259 --> 00:13:50.620 but of the Spirit as well. The Spirit appoints 00:13:50.620 --> 00:13:53.179 Saul and Paul and Barnabas to be sent out on 00:13:53.179 --> 00:13:56.559 mission. The Spirit is not content to leave them 00:13:56.559 --> 00:13:58.940 in Syria, but sends them out to the people of 00:13:58.940 --> 00:14:02.440 Cyprus. And how do they respond? The church responds 00:14:02.440 --> 00:14:04.950 by commissioning them. publicly sending them 00:14:04.950 --> 00:14:07.190 out by fasting prayer and the laying on of hands. 00:14:07.950 --> 00:14:10.809 And what does Paul and Barnabas do in response? 00:14:11.450 --> 00:14:14.490 They take John Mark with them as their assistant. 00:14:15.509 --> 00:14:19.490 Did the Spirit tell them to anoint Saul, Barnabas 00:14:19.490 --> 00:14:24.690 and John Mark? No, Spirit doesn't say that, but 00:14:24.690 --> 00:14:27.779 they take John Mark anyway. Why? Well, because 00:14:27.779 --> 00:14:30.799 they've, they're the followers of Jesus and Jesus 00:14:30.799 --> 00:14:33.279 was a teacher who had apprentices called disciples 00:14:33.279 --> 00:14:35.659 and apprentices who went with them, who walked 00:14:35.659 --> 00:14:37.940 behind their rabbi to learn from them so they 00:14:37.940 --> 00:14:39.940 could be, be with them, become like them and 00:14:39.940 --> 00:14:42.179 do what they do. And this is what it looks like 00:14:42.179 --> 00:14:45.080 to follow Jesus and his followers did the same 00:14:45.080 --> 00:14:48.200 with their followers. And, and here we are with 00:14:48.200 --> 00:14:51.379 Paul and Barnabas, not two of the 12 disciples 00:14:51.379 --> 00:14:54.669 who followed Jesus, right? they're not they're 00:14:54.669 --> 00:14:56.809 not a part of the 12 but here they have the same 00:14:56.809 --> 00:14:59.409 mindset and so they take John Mark with them 00:14:59.409 --> 00:15:01.789 as their apprentice and John Mark is a funny 00:15:01.789 --> 00:15:04.629 one because after this journey he just he just 00:15:04.629 --> 00:15:08.029 leaves goes back to Jerusalem and clearly Paul 00:15:08.029 --> 00:15:10.870 is not impressed with this because he is not 00:15:10.870 --> 00:15:14.070 John Mark's number one fan and when Barnabas 00:15:14.070 --> 00:15:15.809 and Paul want to go back on the road to visit 00:15:15.809 --> 00:15:18.429 all the churches that they've planted It's such 00:15:18.429 --> 00:15:20.570 a point of contention between Paul and Barnabas 00:15:20.570 --> 00:15:22.850 that it causes them to actually go their separate 00:15:22.850 --> 00:15:27.110 ways. So Barnabas takes John Mark and Paul takes 00:15:27.110 --> 00:15:29.710 Silas and they go in opposite directions. And 00:15:29.710 --> 00:15:31.669 so you could say even through disappointment 00:15:31.669 --> 00:15:35.429 and disagreement, the mission multiplies. The 00:15:35.429 --> 00:15:38.649 mission multiplies. And having a multiplying 00:15:38.649 --> 00:15:41.110 mindset means you aren't thinking about, get 00:15:41.110 --> 00:15:44.519 this, this is the mindset shift. You're not thinking 00:15:44.519 --> 00:15:47.139 about, how do I be the hero here? You're thinking 00:15:47.139 --> 00:15:50.419 about, how do I make a hero of others? Who's 00:15:50.419 --> 00:15:54.500 next up? Who can I bring along? Who can I empower? 00:15:55.259 --> 00:15:57.519 And you can because you secure with the, you 00:15:57.519 --> 00:16:00.179 believe in a gigantic God and the drastic need 00:16:00.179 --> 00:16:02.940 of the hour actually requires you to not be the 00:16:02.940 --> 00:16:05.899 one who holds the moment, the power, the glory 00:16:05.899 --> 00:16:08.779 to yourself. but is always trying to give that 00:16:08.779 --> 00:16:11.179 away to others so they can be empowered to step 00:16:11.179 --> 00:16:13.759 into what God wants them to do, so that the mission 00:16:13.759 --> 00:16:17.320 of God can multiply. So the drastic need of the 00:16:17.320 --> 00:16:20.539 hour requires more drastic disciples, and so 00:16:20.539 --> 00:16:22.779 we have to put to death our need to be the center 00:16:22.779 --> 00:16:25.120 of attention, to be the one who's thanked, to 00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:27.659 be the one who's honored, to be the hero, and 00:16:27.659 --> 00:16:31.580 instead take joy in making a hero of others. 00:16:32.139 --> 00:16:35.539 So ask yourself, who's next? Who's next? Who 00:16:35.539 --> 00:16:38.559 can lead this cord, this IDG, this ministry area 00:16:38.559 --> 00:16:41.240 next? Who's the next person I can invite to church? 00:16:41.360 --> 00:16:45.080 Who's the next person I'm just coming after in 00:16:45.080 --> 00:16:47.519 prayer to see them in the kingdom of God? Who's 00:16:47.519 --> 00:16:49.539 the next person I can invite around for dinner 00:16:49.539 --> 00:16:51.519 around my table? Who's the next person I can 00:16:51.519 --> 00:16:53.940 invite to read the Bible with? Who's next up 00:16:53.940 --> 00:16:57.120 at Steve -O's? Who's next up for 24 -7 prayer? 00:16:57.480 --> 00:16:59.759 Who's next up for church plant three, for four, 00:16:59.840 --> 00:17:14.680 for five? We've got a gigantic God, drastic disciples, 00:17:15.380 --> 00:17:17.859 and a multiplying mindset. Those are our family 00:17:17.859 --> 00:17:20.279 values. And living into these family values will 00:17:20.279 --> 00:17:23.099 help us live as a family together, united in 00:17:23.099 --> 00:17:25.759 our difference, united in our desire to grow 00:17:25.759 --> 00:17:30.599 the kingdom, not our own church. We're united 00:17:30.599 --> 00:17:33.700 in our belief and our desire to take unreasonable 00:17:33.700 --> 00:17:36.880 steps to reach the world. United in our belief 00:17:36.880 --> 00:17:39.380 in a God who is powerful and who is with us and 00:17:39.380 --> 00:17:43.660 who is secure. This is how we be family under 00:17:43.660 --> 00:17:47.259 Jesus as we grow. We live into our family values. 00:17:47.339 --> 00:17:49.180 Again, these are the values behind the things 00:17:49.180 --> 00:17:53.539 that we already say that already are in our brains 00:17:53.539 --> 00:17:57.339 and already in our life as a church. What does 00:17:57.339 --> 00:18:01.000 it mean to be an encounter person? Well with 00:18:01.000 --> 00:18:03.039 the gigantic God it means an encounter person 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:06.220 is utterly secure to get out on the water with 00:18:06.220 --> 00:18:11.079 him. As a drastic disciple it means an encounter 00:18:11.079 --> 00:18:13.559 person goes to drastic lengths to see God's kingdom 00:18:13.559 --> 00:18:17.460 come. With a multiplying mindset it means an 00:18:17.460 --> 00:18:20.259 encounter person is someone who multiplies themselves, 00:18:20.859 --> 00:18:24.359 who does not keep it to themselves. What is an 00:18:24.359 --> 00:18:28.579 encounter person? Secure, drastic and multiplying. 00:18:29.309 --> 00:18:34.009 just like Jesus. But living into this requires 00:18:34.009 --> 00:18:37.009 that we deny ourselves, pick up our cross and 00:18:37.009 --> 00:18:40.349 follow Him. It requires us to pay the cost of 00:18:40.349 --> 00:18:42.869 discipleship. It requires us to trust in God, 00:18:42.930 --> 00:18:45.130 not in money or in people in our career or in 00:18:45.130 --> 00:18:47.910 our families. It requires us to leave our own 00:18:47.910 --> 00:18:51.849 way, our comfort zones, and leave no stone unturned. 00:18:52.109 --> 00:18:55.170 It requires us to pursue our success, our glory 00:18:55.170 --> 00:18:57.990 and our... Not to not pursue our success, our 00:18:57.990 --> 00:19:01.049 glory and affirmation, but the success of others. 00:19:02.549 --> 00:19:07.250 Guys, it requires surrender. First and foremost. 00:19:08.390 --> 00:19:11.289 David Benner says this in his book, Desiring 00:19:11.289 --> 00:19:12.849 God's Will. He says, the only reason someone 00:19:12.849 --> 00:19:16.410 would voluntarily surrender their will is for 00:19:16.410 --> 00:19:19.869 love. And any parent in the room knows this. 00:19:21.049 --> 00:19:25.450 When we can do this, and we can do this, We can 00:19:25.450 --> 00:19:27.990 live into these family values, but we'll only 00:19:27.990 --> 00:19:31.069 do it for love. And I don't mean only that we 00:19:31.069 --> 00:19:33.849 need to love God enough to surrender, although 00:19:33.849 --> 00:19:37.269 for you that might actually be true. What I mean 00:19:37.269 --> 00:19:39.829 is that we need to accept that God has loved 00:19:39.829 --> 00:19:44.230 us enough to surrender his life for us. Because 00:19:44.230 --> 00:19:46.529 friends, this is the gospel. The gospel is a 00:19:46.529 --> 00:19:49.890 gigantic God, the only Lord and King of all creation 00:19:49.890 --> 00:19:53.809 becomes flesh and blood and pays a drastic cost. 00:19:53.900 --> 00:19:56.619 Dying on the cross for you and for me so that 00:19:56.619 --> 00:19:59.839 the kingdom of God could be multiplied and Two 00:19:59.839 --> 00:20:01.900 thousand years later you and I could sit in this 00:20:01.900 --> 00:20:04.500 room and call on the name of Lord and be saved 00:20:04.500 --> 00:20:07.460 Now friends, this is the kind of love that should 00:20:07.460 --> 00:20:13.380 drive us to radically secure drastically multiplying 00:20:13.380 --> 00:20:16.819 lives and what happens if we live these kind 00:20:16.819 --> 00:20:20.900 of lives together in Henley and in Enfield and 00:20:20.900 --> 00:20:26.390 all through the Adelaide City What happens? Well, 00:20:26.650 --> 00:20:30.809 anything. Anything could happen. God could do 00:20:30.809 --> 00:20:34.009 anything through you, in your workplaces, in 00:20:34.009 --> 00:20:36.869 your schools, in your families, in Annerfield, 00:20:36.990 --> 00:20:39.029 in Prospect, in Henley, in Adelaide. There is 00:20:39.029 --> 00:20:42.009 actually no limit. The limit, the lid is off 00:20:42.009 --> 00:20:45.549 on what God could do through us, through Encounter 00:20:45.549 --> 00:20:50.869 Church. And all I can say is that the world better 00:20:50.869 --> 00:20:56.769 lock up their governors because we have a gigantic 00:20:56.769 --> 00:21:01.069 God. We are drastic disciples with multiplying 00:21:01.069 --> 00:21:05.569 mindsets. And I wonder this morning how you, 00:21:06.349 --> 00:21:09.529 as our Encounter Adelaide family camp comes to 00:21:09.529 --> 00:21:14.029 an end, need to respond to God. There's three 00:21:14.029 --> 00:21:17.630 things that I just felt like we needed to consider. 00:21:19.450 --> 00:21:21.289 Maybe for you, you need to get a bigger God. 00:21:22.279 --> 00:21:25.299 Maybe you're realizing you've put God in a box 00:21:25.299 --> 00:21:28.839 around what He can do, who He can reach, how 00:21:28.839 --> 00:21:32.000 He can heal. And you need to break Him out of 00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:33.799 those boxes you placed Him in and fall on your 00:21:33.799 --> 00:21:37.079 knees before a mighty God and holy God. Maybe 00:21:37.079 --> 00:21:40.579 for you, acknowledging the way you need will 00:21:40.579 --> 00:21:44.259 require you to physically get on your knees in 00:21:44.259 --> 00:21:48.220 surrender. Maybe for you, you need to get drastic. 00:21:48.740 --> 00:21:52.029 You realize you're stuck in the boat. because 00:21:52.029 --> 00:21:56.170 of fear or pride or shame or whatever else. And 00:21:56.170 --> 00:21:59.009 you actually need, you actually want and need 00:21:59.009 --> 00:22:02.109 to get out on the water with Jesus. Maybe there's 00:22:02.109 --> 00:22:04.190 something you know that God wants you to do that 00:22:04.190 --> 00:22:08.269 you have been putting off or avoiding because 00:22:08.269 --> 00:22:12.849 it seems unreasonable. God couldn't possibly. 00:22:13.730 --> 00:22:17.069 It's just too hard. Maybe for you it's time to 00:22:17.069 --> 00:22:20.710 get drastic. Do the thing make the plan take 00:22:20.710 --> 00:22:24.710 the step get out of the boat Get out of the boat. 00:22:24.710 --> 00:22:27.710 We were made to be on the water with Jesus and 00:22:27.710 --> 00:22:32.109 the last one is Get over yourself and I say this 00:22:32.109 --> 00:22:35.450 with all love and I'm saying this to myself as 00:22:35.450 --> 00:22:40.109 well Because being consumed with yourself How 00:22:40.109 --> 00:22:42.529 things will reflect on you how people will perceive 00:22:42.529 --> 00:22:45.329 you that's the number one barrier to a multiplying 00:22:45.329 --> 00:22:48.829 mindset If I make a hero of others Will it cost 00:22:48.829 --> 00:22:51.490 me the praise that I want? Will it cost me the 00:22:51.490 --> 00:22:53.490 recognition, the influence that I could have 00:22:53.490 --> 00:22:56.390 had? If I make a hero of others, will no one 00:22:56.390 --> 00:22:59.710 see all the hard work that I put in? If I tell 00:22:59.710 --> 00:23:01.650 my friends about Jesus, if I step out in faith, 00:23:01.730 --> 00:23:03.690 will they think I'm weird? I'm thinking about 00:23:03.690 --> 00:23:06.869 ourselves, making it about ourselves. And maybe 00:23:06.869 --> 00:23:09.490 for you, you need to spend some time this morning 00:23:09.490 --> 00:23:12.109 to repent of the ways in which you have made 00:23:12.109 --> 00:23:14.470 the kingdom of God, you've made the church, you've 00:23:14.470 --> 00:23:17.900 made the mission of God about you. Because it's 00:23:17.900 --> 00:23:20.480 not about you. It's not about me. It's not about 00:23:20.480 --> 00:23:23.240 us. It's actually about God and what God's doing. 00:23:24.359 --> 00:23:26.420 And God is reconciling the world to himself. 00:23:28.880 --> 00:23:32.720 How do you need to respond this morning as one 00:23:32.720 --> 00:23:36.000 family? Thanks so much for tuning into this week's 00:23:36.000 --> 00:23:39.220 message. 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