What Everyone Needs in 2024 - The Church Deployed

Matthew 16:18b “I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”

1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Everyone Needs a Savior and the Church is God’s Design for Sharing the Savior with the World.

Matthew 28:18-20 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Luke 19:10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.

1 Timothy 2:4 Who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Ephesians 4:11-12 So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, 12 to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up. (NIV)

2 Corinthians 5:20a We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. (NIV)

Acts 9:39 So Peter rose and went with them. And when he arrived, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood beside him weeping and showing tunics and other garments that Dorcas made while she was with them.

“He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot keep”

Jim Elliot. Died Jan 8th 1956.