What Is The Church Here For?

What Is The Church Here For?

April 15, 2020 · 1 hr 12 min

What is the Church actually here for—comfort, community, content… or mission?

In Acts 13, the Holy Spirit launches the first major missions movement from the church in Antioch, and everything changes. A growing church becomes a going church. Leaders are raised up and sent out. The gospel confronts spiritual counterfeit, opens blind eyes, and spreads from city to city through synagogues—showing us where church gathering practices come from and why preaching must always center on Jesus.

This episode breaks down Acts 13 and answers big questions:

Why the Holy Spirit sends the Church outward

Why spiritual growth must lead to spiritual going

How God uses both supernatural leading and natural relationships

Why the gospel threatens spiritual “gurus” and counterfeit wisdom

Why Paul’s preaching starts with what God has done before what we must do

How Jesus is the fulfillment of the entire Old Testament story

Why effective churches will face opposition—and why we keep going anyway

If you’ve ever wondered why the Church gathers on Sundays, why missions matter, and what it means to be “a light to the nations,” Acts 13 gives the blueprint.

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