Matthew 16:13-20 – The Nexus

This past Sunday we continued in our new teaching series, Nuts and Bolts. Last week we talked about what the church is. This week, we spent our time experiencing together what the church is for. I say experiencing because that’s more of what this service was. Below is the short message I gave at the beginning of the experience. For the rest of the experience and some powerful examples of what it looks like when we get the church right, watch the imbedded video of the service. When we get the church right, the work of Jesus is made possible. Check out some examples of what this looks like below.

Toward a Purpose

The church gets a lot of things wrong. Have you ever thought that? I have a pretty strong suspicion that even if you haven’t you know at least one person who thinks that. You may know a whole bunch of them. You may live with one—or more. Now, depending on how outspoken you happen to be about your own attachment to the church they may sit on those particular thoughts out of respect for you, but they’re there. Do you know why they think the church gets a whole bunch of things wrong? Because the church gets a whole bunch of things wrong.

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This week we kicked off a brand-new teaching series called, Nuts and Bolts. For the next few weeks, we are going to be exploring some of the ideas we introduced in our last series in a bit more detail. We have been talking for the last few weeks about how the church got its start. Knowing that history is good, but it doesn’t tell us how the church was designed to work. That’s what we’ll be addressing in this series. In this first installment, we are going to start with what the church is in the first place. Join me as we talk about what it is and what one powerful implication of that is for our lives. Thanks for reading and sharing.

Building the Body

I remember a season growing up when my dad would make monthly trips to Hutchinson, KS. He went there to attend the board meetings of Collins Industries, a small bus and ambulance manufacturer, for whom he had done some legal work over the years. Now, Hutchinson is located in the middle of nowhere Kansas. I’ll grant you that’s most of the state, but Hutchinson really earns the title. Normally, kids probably wouldn’t have any interest in going to the middle of nowhere with their dads for a business trip. But Hutchinson had one really cool thing going for it: a world class space museum.

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