Radical - Week 3

Covenant Church - Shepherdstown
Message by Pastor Terry Crawford

Question 1 =============== Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water, or do you want a chance to change the world?

Question 2 =============== Do we want to remain in religious ruts and in a consumer style faith or do we want to get radical and change the world?

Bible Reference 1 =============== Matthew 9:35-38 (NIV84) ---------------Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”

Two Ingredients of Radical Compassion... =============== Supernatural awareness of the condition of the lost.

Two Ingredients of Radical Compassion... =============== Sacrificial obedience to the commission of Christ.

Note 1 =============== Awareness of the condition of the lost enables us to see their size, feel their suffering and realize their separation.

Note 2 =============== When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them

Note 3 =============== When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

Bible Reference 2 =============== Revelation 20:15 (NIV84) ---------------If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

The Commission of Christ... =============== Jesus beckons us to pray.

The Commission of Christ... =============== Jesus summons us to go.

Note 4 =============== Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”

Note 5 =============== As we go with radical compassion, we will learn to trust God’s provision and depend on His power.

Quote =============== “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me… Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful--that’s what matters.”

Question 3 =============== Followers of Christ, what matters to you? Have you done something wonderful?