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The Boomerang of Mission | You Are Sent (Luke 10) · DFC Podcast

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Welcome to the Dorchester Family Church Podcast, Our vision to be
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a church known for our love. Our wholehearted love for God,
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our authentic love for each other, and our compassionate
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love for our community. Each week, get fueled up to
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worship passionately, grow meaningfully together, and make
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an eternal impact on the lives around you.
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Lean in close as we explore this Sunday's practical Bible based
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message unpacking that transformative vision.
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Well, it's, it's great to be with you this morning and it's a
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privilege to come here and here and see all that God is doing.
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Heather and I are in London at the moment.
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We're based in Westminster Chapel, a few minutes walk from
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Buckingham Palace, when it's a great joy to get out of the city
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and to see green fields and enjoy your hospitality.
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For those of you who are new in this church, as Ben said, we go
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back way, way, way back. Gary and Carol, I first came to
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this area and did a a mission with Gary.
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That's where I first met him. We did an evangelistic mission
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at the steam rally, steam fair or whatever it was called.
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And that was the oddest group of Christians I've ever worked
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with. If you ever meet evangelists,
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they're odd, aren't they? They are weird.
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They've got something to look in their eye and they scare you to
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death. And Gary was the only sane one
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there and we struck up a good friendship and have kept good
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friends ever since. And I was absolutely delighted
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when Ben said he would come. Ben, Louisa, they'd come up
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here. It's such a wonderful church and
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so good to get good leaders. I hope you are people who are
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often speak well of your leaders and thank them for what they're
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doing. Being a church leader is no walk
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in the park, let me tell you. It has many challenges with it.
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So I'm very grateful for what you're doing here.
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You're doing a great work and it's great to be with you.
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Let's begin with a story. Bonnie grew up not far from
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here. Bonnie grew up in Cornwall, She
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grew up in Bodmin. She had a lovely mum and dad and
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she had the idyllic childhood little smallholding.
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Dad had a little horse that she used to ride, Little Orchard,
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and Bonnie's abiding memory was riding on her father's shoulder
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in a spring when the blossom trees would fall and they'd
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settle on her hair and on her shoulders, and she'd giggle and
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laugh. She had the most perfect
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childhood, but when she was 15 years old, something very tragic
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happened. Her father got cancer and within
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a very short period of time he died and that left Bonnie with
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her mum and her mum in a turmoil herself trying to bring up a
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teenage girl. She went to school and her
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friends told her that she was odd and that life was to be had
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way away from Bodmin in this bright lights of London.
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And so there were arguments, big arguments with mum and, and they
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they got worse and worse until eventually Bonnie wrote a card
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one night and left it on the mantelpiece saying I am dead to
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you and you are dead to me. I'm leaving and I never want you
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in my life again. Bonnie came to London, the city
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of opportunities, the bright lights.
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She met a charming man businessman who invited her to
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come and live with him in his penthouse and his flash cars in
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Mayfair. And Bonnie had the high life.
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Oh, she had little pills. It would just take the edge off
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things that he would treat her to.
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And sometimes he'd introduce you to some of his clients, his
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friends. And she would learn to turn
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tricks and carry on in this lifestyle where things just got
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a little bit out of control. And then he turned nasty.
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Then he kicked her out and she went from bad to worse with her
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drugs and shooting up heroin and and it came to a very low point
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in her life. When it was this time of year.
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It was approaching Mother's Day and Bonnie sat in Berkeley
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Square. And as she sat in Berkeley
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Square and said, what on earth am I doing in my life?
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The blossom fell from the trees and landed on her hair and on
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her body and she thought to herself, what a fool, what an
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absolute fool. I'm going to write home and I'm
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going to write home and say Mum I'm coming back, I'm catching
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the train out of London, Exeter exes down to Truro and if there
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is any chance that I could come home, even to sleep in the
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garden shed with a dog, any chance please Mum on Mother's
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Day when the train comes through, can you tie a yellow
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ribbon on the Bodmin station? Big sign as I come in.
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She sent that card 5 days before Mother's Day and on Mother's Day
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she caught the train and thought to herself, what a fool, what a
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fool, what a fool. What am I going to do, What am I
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going to do if nothing's there, if no one's there, if there's no
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sign there, maybe she wouldn't have got the card.
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And she's worrying herself as the train moves through, down
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into Exeter and then down into the darkest parts of Cornwall.
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And soon the train is arriving at Bodmin station and she's
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looking out the window and just hoping at the first sign of the
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Bodmin train station. Would there be, would there be
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anything? Would there be a sign?
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And there wasn't, There wasn't 1 yellow ribbon.
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There were hundreds, hundreds, yellow balloons, yellow ribbons
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all along the station. There wasn't one person standing
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on the station. They were all her family, her
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friends, people she'd grown up with.
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Big signs saying welcome home, Bonnie.
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And she got off the train and she's crying and she's moving
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towards her mother. And she's her mother.
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I'm, I'm so, so sorry. And my mother said, Bonnie,
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shush, you're late for the party.
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A story that Jesus told, a story that's repeated many, many
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times, even in this room. The story of people who have
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gone astray and by the grace of God found their way back home.
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And let me tell you, brothers and sisters, there are many
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today in Dorchester in a far off place, looking for an invitation
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to come home to a family, to this place where we can tie
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bright yellow ribbons above our doors and say, welcome, you're
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so welcome. Because that was us.
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That was our story. And it will be the story of many
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more people in this town. So I want to talk about, as
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you've got on your slide here, the boomerangs of Mission.
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How many of you as children had a boomerang?
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Did anybody get a boomerang? Only Oh, a few of you?
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Did anybody ever learn to throw a boomerang?
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No, I broke quite a few boomerangs growing up trying to
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throw the things, and I've brought along a few boomerangs
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today just to test it out. Hope I don't kill anybody in
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throwing them. Life is full of boomerangs,
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isn't it? You think about anything you do
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in life, you sort of send something out and it seems to
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come back. You know, you, you go to the
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dump, you send out your old rubbish and then you travel back
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via the B&Q and pick up a whole load of rubbish that's going to
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be rubbish in a few days time. You send out your kids to school
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and they come back. They're all hopefully they do
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and nice and clean. They come back dirty.
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There are boomerangs in the Bible.
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Galatians 6-7 says a man reaps what he sows.
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There's a sense of when we live to please the flesh.
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There's a sense of inevitability that there is things that will
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unfold in our lives. But I want to talk today about
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the boomerangs of Mission 2, boomerangs of mission.
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And I'd like to turn in the your Bibles, please, to Luke chapter
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10. And I'd like to read a few
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verses from Luke chapter 10. So if you have a Bible, we've
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got Pew Bibles back at Westminster Chapel because we
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realized more and more people were not reading a Bible or
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getting into the habit of reading the word of God
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together. And it's a lovely thing to do.
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So if you have a Bible or a phone or however you do it, it
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says in Luke chapter 10 verse one.
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After this the Lord appointed 72 or 70 others and sent them two
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by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was
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about to go. He told them the harvest is
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plentiful but the workers are few.
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Ask or pray to the Lord of the harvest therefore to send out
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workers into his harvest field. Jesus said go, I am sending you
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out like lambs amongst wolves. Do not take a purse or a bag or
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sandals and do not greet anyone on the road.
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When you enter a house, first say piece to this house.
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If someone who promotes pieces there, your piece will rest on
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them, if not, it will return to you.
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Boomerang back to you. Stay there eating and drinking
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whatever they give you, for the worker deserves his wages.
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Do not move around from house to house.
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When you enter a town and are welcomed, eat what is offered to
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you. Heal the sick who are there and
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tell them the Kingdom of God has come near you.
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But when you enter a town or are not welcomed, go into the
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streets and say even the dust of your town.
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We wipe off the feet as a warning to you.
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Yet be sure of this. The Kingdom of God has come
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near. I tell you it will be more
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tolerable on the day for Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town.
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Woe to you, Corizon. Woe to you, Bethsaida, For if
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the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in
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Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in
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sackcloth and ashes. But it'll be more bearable for
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Tyre and Sidon at the judgement than for you.
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And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to the heavens?
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No, you will go down to Hades. Whoever listens to you listens
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to me. Whoever rejects you rejects me,
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and whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.
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The 72 returned. They boomerang back with joy and
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said, Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name.
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But Jesus replied, I saw Satan fall light lightning from
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heaven. I've given you authority to
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trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of
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the enemy. Nothing will harm you.
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However, do not rejoice that the Spirit submit to you, but
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rejoice that your names are written in heaven.
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OK, what are we here for? What is the church here for?
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What is the definition of this church?
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What is the definition of everybody who makes up a member
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of this church? I read in a book recently in
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terms of the western church, the West.
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A description of it is Low cost cheap grace Disney esque
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Christianity. It's quite a telling critique of
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the church today. Low cost, cheap grace, Disney
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esque Christianity. And the truth of the matter is
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sometimes the church gets so preoccupied with itself, it
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forgets what exactly it's here to do.
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And so this morning I want to encourage you to be with two
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boomerangs that I think could change your life, I think could
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change this church's life and make it a very good year for
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you. So are you up for it?
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Three of us Good. We should do well.
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So boomerang #1 this is a risky thing, isn't it?
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I hope I don't kill anybody with this.
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Let me just think how I'm going to do this.
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OK? The idea of a boomerang is it
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comes back to you. This won't.
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But I hard OK. Thanks, Gary.
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Gary. I don't trust Gary at all.
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OK, here's boomerang. No one.
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Not bad boomerang #1 this is what I want to underline for
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you. We are a scent.
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People turn to the person next to you tell tell him or her you
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are a scent person. OK, let me, let me show you
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through this, through this passage, why this is so
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important. Jesus firstly is ascent Saviour,
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it says in one John 414 and we have seen and testify that the
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Father has sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world.
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This is the gospel. The God we worship this morning
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is ascending God. He doesn't send a few leftovers
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from heaven. He sends his very best.
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He gives his very best to this world.
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In order for this world to be saved, He sends Jesus.
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Jesus is a sent 1 and it says in in Hebrews chapter 3 verse one,
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fix your eyes upon Jesus, who is our apostle and high priest,
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Apostle Apostelo. He is a sent one, the one that
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we worship, the one that we've adored in this first session,
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the one that we say, Jesus, I want to see you high and lifted,
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high and lifted up. The one we say we want to follow
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you. He is a sent one, Amen, because
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he's a sent 1. He then sends his disciples
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after this. The Lord appointed 72 and he
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sent them. He sent them ahead of him to
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every town and he said the harvest is plentiful.
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Jesus sends the disciples out as they leave him.
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He said I'm going ahead of you, but I want you to know you are
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my representatives. I'm sending you out into the
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harvest field. And he said this about the
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harvest field. When you think of Dorchester
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today, when you think of the whole area of Dorset, the
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harvest is plentiful. Say that to the person next to
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you. The harvest is plentiful.
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You see, we don't believe that. We actually do not believe that.
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We say the harvest has got a few little corns of ears.
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If we're lucky, we might pick up one or two people this year.
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Jesus says no, no, no, though you got it all wrong.
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I'm sending you into a massive field of harvest.
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But here's the problem. Most of us go and I'm not going.
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There's the harvest field. Look at the harvest field.
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I'm I'm going the other way. Thank you, Jesus.
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Wonderful. You're the scent one.
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I'm going the other. Now we're the scent ones.
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He sends out the disciples and he says there's a harvest to
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take and then he sends the Holy Spirit.
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But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit, when, when
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Jesus says I'm going back to heaven, the disciples go, well,
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this isn't going to be much fun. And he said no, but this is for
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the a greater good. He said, I'm going to send you
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one. I'm going to send you the
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paratly. I'm going to send you someone
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like myself, but someone who's going to live on the inside
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rather than the outside. And that person is going to lead
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you into mission, and he's also going to do something quite
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unusual inside you. He's going to give you power,
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Dunamis, dynamite power, in order to live this life.
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Can I hear this? The most important person on
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planet Earth today is the Holy Spirit.
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The church often treat him as he's just like a force or a
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power or wind. No, he's a person and he can be
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grieved. He wants to walk amongst us this
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morning. He wants to touch our lives.
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He wants to push us out into the mission field and tell us the
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harvest is plentiful and I want to use your life.
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I want to send you. We, we, we cannot be sent out
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today in the power of our flesh that achieves nothing.
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But when we go in the power of the Holy Spirit, we can heal the
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sick, we can raise the dead, we can announce the Kingdom of God
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is here because it's his mission.
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And his Holy Spirit will empower us to do the mission of Jesus.
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Amen. And then Jesus sends apostles to
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serve his church in the book of Acts.
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Westminster chap. We've been going through the
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book of Acts and it's a wonderful first journey.
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Acts 131415 is the first missionary journey, 18 months.
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Paul and Barnabas sent out from Antioch in that that big sort of
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city in the north of Syria today.
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And as they're worshipping, as they're praying and fasting,
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what does God say? He says send out your best onto
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the mission field. He did not say who's the oddest
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person in the church at Antioch. Send them.
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And everyone goes who now? Who's the best?
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Who carries the most responsibility?
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Who would you most want arriving in your town?
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Send Ben and Louise. Send Gary and Carol.
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Send people that you think, oh, these are our best people.
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Send them. Set apart Barnabas and Saul for
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the work in which I'm going. I just want to say this, if you
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ever feel as a Christian, what difference can I possibly make
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with my life? Have you ever said that where
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you live, your school, your workmates?
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What difference is my life? Imagine, imagine today you're
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sending out two people into the world and they are going to come
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back in 18 months time and they'll have planted 20 churches
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that have seen hundreds of people saved and they've turned
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the world upside down just on that one mission trip.
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That's the difference you and I can make when we live in the
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power of the Holy Spirit and then Jesus sends us his church.
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I love the fact that Jesus disciples people with questions.
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Who do men say that I am? And we can flatter Jesus.
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Well, some say you're as good as Jeremiah.
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You're you're pretty up there. And yet Peter has a revelation
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spirit given. You are the anointed 1.
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You are the Christ. You're the promised Messiah of
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the world and Jesus says flesh and blood haven't revealed this
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to you, but my Father in heaven and on this rock, on this
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statement, I will build my church and the gates of hell
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will not overcome it. Jesus begins his world
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conquering mission through a group of people he calls his
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church. That's us.
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He didn't say I'm going to build a parachurch mission
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organization is going to change the world.
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Now the people that are going to change the world is the church.
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Take a look around you this morning and think what an odd
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bunch of people. How on earth is this group going
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to change the world? Because the world out there is
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an odd group of people just like us, and they need to meet people
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just like us who have encountered Jesus, Bonnies like
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us, who have found mercy and grace and have come to love the
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love of the Father. And that is the message the
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Church of Jesus Christ Jesus is not interested in.
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Hands up for Jesus. He wants people to find a
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community, this new community of love, and become a
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transformation agent in this town.
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The definition of the church, the definition of a believer is
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you are sent ones. So one more time, just to remind
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yourself, turn to the person next to you and say don't forget
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you are a sent one. Asha, let me just tell you this
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story because it's a good story. In 2002, I was invited to go to
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India. In India, New Frontiers had
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3033, I think it was churches. And they'd come into a bad place
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where they'd forgotten what the church existed for.
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They were falling out and fighting with each other.
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Leaders really didn't trust each other.
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They'd become quite legalistic. It was more about what you wore,
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what you look like, what you believed.
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And they were very fractured, desperate, legalistic, don't
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drink alcohol. It was just a, a horrible group
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of churches that had fallen out and we're in a very bad place.
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And Terry Virgo asked me if if me and a few other people go out
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there and try and help. And so over a few years, we, we
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went out there a number of times and tried to help them.
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And I said right at the very beginning, I think it was the
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first year I was there, I said the hope for the church in India
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is Indian leaders, not white British leaders coming over
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here. And they went, what?
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No, no, we like you white British coming over here.
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So no, in order for this nation to be changed, we need to raise
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up Indian leaders. And so began a work over many,
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many years. And as you know, if you're part
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of Commission, Vinu, who is one of the leaders are recognized
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and appointed. He now leads the whole movement
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I've handed over to him, but he shared this slide just a few
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days ago with leaders and think just remembering 33 churches,
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this was 2001 or two it was. And today the number of churches
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are 625 churches that have been established.
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There are 140 more in the pipeline and there are 20
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nations that we're now involved with in Commission, advancing
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the gospel through multiplying churches and raising leaders
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among the nations. See, when the church understands
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its mission and aligns itself to leadership that is Apostolic,
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that is sending, this is what we can see now.
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I just want to say this, when I come to a church on a Sunday, I
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don't get out much. I'm in in in Bournemouth in
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Westminster Chapel a lot but when I come to a church like
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this I seek God for a word for the church so that something for
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the elders to chat over and the church for all of you to weigh
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and think. Did he eat too much cheese or
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what did he have for breakfast? I saw an aerial picture of
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Maiden Castle and if you live here, you'll know Maiden Castle
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has got many ditches and but over the top of it, it looks a
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little bit like someone's thrown a stone in the middle and there
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are ripples going out. And I felt this trip of mind,
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this visit this morning. I'm just literally throwing a
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stone into a Pebble into a, into a pond and there are ripples
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that are going to go out and I feel these are ripples of
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mission. I feel God wants to encourage
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you as a church that actually as you have been involved in
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planting Weymouth, as you've been in help helping all the
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towns around up to Yeovil and down to Bridport and Blandford.
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And I feel, I feel God wants to remind you again, I want you as
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a church to be an Apostolic Church that serves Dorset and
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beyond. I believe God is sending you
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people from other nations. I believe South America and
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Africa are on the heart of God for this church and that you
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will receive people from those nations but they are to be
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repurposed, re engineered and sent back into those nations for
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the glory of God. I feel God wants to take your
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blinkers off little town of Torchester.
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We're just nice little community and think no, this church exists
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for hundreds and hundreds of people to be saved for more
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churches to be planted and for many more leaders to be raised
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up. I'm throwing a Pebble in a pond,
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but I want you to think of an aerial view of Maiden Castle.
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This will there are ramparts that go EN southwest.
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And so with this church has got a calling on it to be an
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Apostolic Church. So let me quickly finish.
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This is how I want you to go today.
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You have a story to tell. Your own testimony is powerful.
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You are not to copy the person next to you.
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God has made you you, your interests, your likes, your
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hobbies. However odd other people may
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think you are, God doesn't. God likes you.
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Do not rejoice the Spirit submit to you, but rejoice that your
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name is written in heaven. God likes you, God loves you.
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God likes you the way he's made you.
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Amen. So you can be who you are
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uncomfortable in your own skin and you haven't got to be
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anybody else. I'm not calling people to become
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odd cross eyed evangelist this morning.
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Those weird people you meet on the streets of London that you
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think I'm not even sure I'm saved having talked to them.
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You are a peacemaker, Jesus says.
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Wherever you go, as you come into a house or a town, say this
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peace, peace be upon you. We are peace makers, not
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peacekeepers, peacemakers. Wherever we go, we carry
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something of the peace of God in us.
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The world is in torment, in conflict.
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Whenever you enter a house, say peace upon this house.
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Your message, brothers and sisters, must be full of the
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word of God. I haven't got time to do this,
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but if you look at book of Acts, everywhere they went, every
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conversation they had, they brought it back to Jesus.
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They knew their Bibles. People could quote Old Testament
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people who you meet cults in Dorchester, you meet all kinds
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of people. Do you know your Bible?
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Make sure you're giving yourself to studying the word of God.
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It is the sword of the Spirit. It's the way in which Kingdom
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advances as you use the sword. It says heal the sick.
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There's a message from the king. We're announcing a new king is
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in town and his name is Jesus. And therefore we can say those
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who are sick, those who are ill, the Kingdom of God is here.
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Be quick, quick, quick to pray for the sick.
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I've worked with a lady in London, a lady called Megan.
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I mean she is just amazing. Whenever she meets anybody who
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says, oh, I've got a slight this or I'm not feeling quite well,
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she's in there with prayer. She's seen so many miracles just
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by her faithful sin. Do you mind if I pray for you?
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It's amazing how that opens the door for the Kingdom of God.
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Just a word of warning as we finish.
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Opposition is guaranteed. I wouldn't like those odds if
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I'd have been in the disciples and Jesus said I'm sending you
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out as lambs amongst wolves. I said hang on, I don't like
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those odds. Can you not send us out like
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rottweilers amongst wolves or rhinos or elephants amongst
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wolves? What?
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I don't like this sheep among wolves.
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This sounds like I might get eaten.
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And Jesus is making that point. We're not the strongest, we're
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not the cleverest, we're not the most powerful, But Paul said I
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didn't come with you with wise or persuasive word, but a
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demonstration of the Spirit's power that your faith wouldn't
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rest on man but on God as it says there reliant on the Holy
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Spirit. So how do I want to finish?
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I need to finish. So here we go.
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Here's how we're going to finish.
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We are in the midst at the moment of a conflict in Iran and
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most of you have been worried about one thing in the last two
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weeks and that's your petrol, making sure your fuel gauge is
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nice and full. I want to ask you this morning a
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very simple question. How is your compassion for the
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lost? Were you moved by Bonnie's
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story, thinking there are hundreds, thousands of Bonnies
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in Dorchester and you live next door to them?
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You see some of you don't even know the name of your next door
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neighbor, the person across the street.
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You've never even spoken to them.
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And God wants to touch your heart with compassion today and
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say imagine them getting saved. Imagine them coming home.
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Imagine you being the person privileged to be able to
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introduce them to Jesus. So I want to finish like this as
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we come back into a worship song.
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If you feel your needle is low and empty, I'd like you to just
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do a break thing and just come out the front.
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And as we're singing this song, before we take bread, I'm just
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going to come and just lay hands on you and pray that God would
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break your heart for what breaks his.
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God would give you an anointing today to go in the power of the
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Spirit and to see your life bringing transformation.
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So let's just stand. Louise and the band are going to
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come back up. I'm going to pray.
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And as we start to sing this song, if you'd like prayer,
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please just step out of your chairs.
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Come and fill this area just down here.
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Let's just be before the King. Lord Jesus, I love you.
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I thank you so much for this precious church.
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I thank you your spirits all over it.
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And I pray this morning you would break our heart for what
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breaks yours, where we've become hard and non compassionate.
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Lord, I pray Jesus have mercy on us and fill your children today
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with boldness and joy in the Holy Spirit.
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May this day be a little Pebble dropped in a pond, but may the
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ripples carry on for this week, this month, this year and
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beyond, even to nations that we don't even know of at the
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moment. Holy Spirit come may this word
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find good soft soil for your seed to generate in Jesus name,
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Amen. Thank you for listening to the
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Dorchester Family Church podcast.
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We pray that God's Word ignited a flame in you today to burn
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brighter for Him. But the journey doesn't stop
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here. Stay motivated by visiting
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dfc.org.uk to get plugged into community, join a small group,
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find serving opportunities, and take your next steps in joyfully
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living out your faith every day. Please join us next week as we
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continue being equipped to wholeheartedly worship,
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intentionally grow, and boldly go make disciples.
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Grace and peace until next time.