5: Bring Peace

The Neighborhood Church

We wrap up our annual Core Practice series with "Bring Peace." To bring peace is to partner with God in the work he's doing to bring freedom and flourishing to all people. This practice involves the little ways in which we serve our neighbor to the larger mission to declare and demonstrate the reign of God on earth as it is in heaven. In Luke 4, Jesus shares this kind of ministry thesis statement to an agitated hometown crowd. Will we join his "Shalom" movement in our hometown? NOTES -- // SCRIPTURE FOCUS -- Luke 4.14-22 // CORE PRACTICE 5 -- We commit to partner with God in his mission to bring his Shalom (holistic peace and well-being) to our neighborhood and world. // INSPIRATION (God-breathed vision) and INCARNATION (God-filled realization) // "The Word became flesh and blood and moved into the neighborhood." (John 1.14, The Message) // Jesus' 3 Points to His Thesis Statement that gets "Told" then "Shown" in His Ministry... 1. Jesus is anointed by the Spirit for this mission 2. Jesus is appointed to inaugurate this new era 3. It's all accomplished by Jesus says and does // Jesus' 3 Illustrations When the Crowd is Not Persuaded 1. "You'll want me to prove what I did there, here" 2. "You won't expect much because you don't respect me" 3. "You won't like the people who get rescued" // Yes, this is Jesus’ mission inaugurating God’s kingdom, but will we, as a liberated people, partner with the Liberating King in the power of the SHALOM-giving Spirit? // QUOTE -- "Do what you can, do it well, do it with joy, do it with love." (Eugene Cho)