WHY IT MATTERS //
As members of Revive we are Committed to Jesus and Committed to one another. This commitment (also known as koinonia) is one of the pillars of our ReviveHOMES; It sets a foundation for us to grow and mature in community. Each unique ReviveHOME is a local expression of the same DNA that God has given us as a family of churches. Over the next weeks we will explore together our shared convictions, our identity and the Kingdom mission God has called us to accomplish in unity. This week we dive deeper into something we began to touch on last week: How do we discover our personal role in the Kingdom and the community? Words like gift, purpose and calling are often confused and interchanged but what do they really mean?
WHAT IT’S TALKING ABOUT //
This week we want to discuss the biblical foundation of how we explore and outwork who we are personally in the context of community.
1. IDENTITY
Your identity comes from your Father God and is defined by your union with Christ. God has adopted you to be his son or daughter.
Romans 8:15
15 So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him, “Abba, Father.”
2. PURPOSE
You were born to glorify God. This means to worship through your everyday life; in all that you do bearing witness that Jesus is alive.
Romans 11:36
36 For everything comes from him and exists by his power and is intended for his glory…
3. COMMISSION
To carry on the mission of Jesus to make disciples. You have a mandate to tell people about Jesus and teach them how to follow him.
Mark 16:15-16
15 And then he told them, “Go into all the world and preach the Good News to everyone. 16 Anyone who believes and is baptized will be saved. But anyone who refuses to believe will be condemned.
4. CALLING
The unique way that God assigns you to glorify him and make disciples. Your gifts, desires and natural circumstances contribute and this assignment can change.
1 Corinthians 12:7
7 A spiritual gift is given to each of us so we can help each other.
Genesis 2:15,19
15 The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it…19 …He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
5. DESTINY
To hear Jesus say “Well done” when you stand before him to give an account for how you lived in response to his salvation.
2 Corinthians 5:9-10
9 So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.