Sermon
Moving Forward On Mission
Center Church
Speaker: Josh Miller
September 14, 2022 · 46 min
Summary
Through Israel's journey to Mount Sinai, the congregation learns three essential lessons for spiritual advancement: prayer is the battleground where spiritual victories are won, churches require multiple leaders rather than one central leader to sustain growth and care, and Christians must be distinctly holy and set apart from the world to effectively witness to the nations.
Highlights
The battle is won in the place of prayer. The battle had to be fought, but the power for the battle to be won was determined on the hill.
One of the ways you know you've become a Christian is because you have new enemies. Your enemy is no longer the other political party or your boss—your enemy is the things behind those things that are causing them to oppress you.
For us as a church, relevance is not our goal, holiness is. We want to be a group of people that does education, career, relationships, forgiveness, marriage, parenting, sexuality, and generosity so differently from the world that it attracts people.