Title: “Simple Stewardship: Simply Serve”
A little over a month ago I went into the Alaska United Methodist Conference office with Sheila _______ (our money person) and Steve _______ (our “building” person). To meet with Dave _______ and Leila _______ (our Conference Leadership Persons). We met with them to talk about our church finances, which, the farther along we’ve been getting in our construction without actually occupying the building, the harder it’s been. And we knew that this year, as we were looking at what we’ve had on our plate to get heat and start worshipping over there, it was becoming more and more evident that our “income” wasn’t meeting up with out “outgo.”
And we’ve tried to be honest and forthcoming here. The longer we’ve had to wait for construction to finish, we’ve been paying bills for a building we’ve not been able to occupy. And we could see that it was going to get a little too close for comfort as we got to the second half of this year and into the beginning next year as we’ve had some large chunks of money due at one time while giving has gone down a bit.
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"Simple Stewardship: Simply Serve" -- Sermon for 7 November 2010
Four Things
1) The Missional Church -- The church exists to be missionaries in the culture of which it's a part.
2) The Emerging Church -- This is harder to define but is a "deconstructed," post-modern way of looking at church. It is closely tied with the Missional Church.
3) Red-Letter Christians -- This is a movement to save the church from both left and right partisan politics by focusing on the words of Jesus (the "red letters") and living according to his words. It recognizes all of Scripture as inspired but uses the life of Christ as the lens through which the rest of Scripture is viewed.
4) Servant Evangelism -- The notion that acts of love have a positive change on communities and is what brings persons into a relationship with Christ.
