Tuesday, January 03, 2006
The Kind of Church that Could Change the World
This past weekend I had the opportunity to preach at my parent's church in Hillsdale, Michigan. They are supporting our church plant in Yorkville and wanted me to speak on the qualities of a church that would reproduce itself, since they are thinking about possibly planting a daughter church of their own in a nearby town in the near future. I decided to speak on what it means to be a missional church and on the difference between an individualistic, self-centered gospel (i.e. believe in Jesus as your personal Lord and Saviour so you can go to Heaven when you die) and Jesus's gospel of the Kingdom of God.

If you'd like to read the full text of the sermon you can download it here.
 
posted by Mike Clawson at 10:17 PM | Permalink |


5 Comments:


At 1/04/2006 08:22:00 PM, Blogger Gordon Gray

Unfortunately the link to your sermon didn't work for me - can you please check the link?

Shalom

Gordon

 

At 1/04/2006 09:39:00 PM, Blogger tonymyles

I used to live a mile away from that church in Hillsdale when I was ministering in a nearby town. In fact, a former senior pastor there - Sterling Demond - was my senior pastor before coming there. He didn't stay there long, though.

 

At 1/05/2006 08:44:00 PM, Blogger Mike Clawson

I'm still trying to figure out how the file hosting at Yahoo works, so if the sermon doesn't load for you bear with me. I'll try to fix it as soon as I can. Keep trying back.

 

At 1/10/2006 09:57:00 PM, Blogger Mike Clawson

Okay, if anyone is still checking these comments, go ahead and try the links now and let me know if they work this time.

Thanks

 

At 1/14/2006 02:33:00 PM, Blogger dan

Nope. Couldn't get it to work either.

peace

 
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