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Where Do You Go?

Join us again this week as we continue our series, "Called Out"

Colossians 3:23-24(ESV)

²³ Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,²⁴ knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.

Called Out - Bootleg Disciple

As we continue our Called Out series we go deeper into the Book of Acts. Pastor Neli this week helps us compare our lives and relationships and helps us to reflect on who we really are. Are we in a relationship that has been made available to us through the cross, giving us miraculous power, or are we a Christian just "getting by". The choice is ours but who are we representing?

But the evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I recognize, but who are you?”
- Acts 19:15 (ESV)

Called Out - Stranger Things

We're continuing in our Called Out series. This week Pastor Neli poses the question, "What is our approach to strange things?" We are all worshippers, but what do we worship? Do we bow down to the world and start to worship money, sports, relationships, or people or do we worship God? We must walk in a relationship with Jesus Christ that's completely transparent so we can understand the power of what He has already done for us. That's when we truly become fulfilled.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
- 1 John 4:7-8 (ESV)

Called Out - Toll Call

Everyone who calls themselves a son or daughter of God has a calling to ministry but what does that calling look like. Join us as we continue our Called Out series with this week about the calling of Saul and Paul. Every call has people in mind and we are called to bring people to Jesus. If you know your call, have you responded yet?

And when Paul had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go on into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.
- Acts 16:10 (ESV)

Called Out - Sticks and Stones

Join us as we continue our Called Out series. Pastor Neli compares the old children's rhyme to our response to praise and persecution. You can trust a person's character by how they handle praise and persecution. Our character is reflected as a part of our Christianity which people don't see. We must be intentional about our Christianity and worship God with our character, not our gifting.

When they had preached the gospel to that city and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch, strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.
- Acts 14:21-22 (ESV)

Called Out - We Don't Die We Multiply

Week 13 of our Called Out series and this week Pastor Neli prepares us for our eulogy and what would be said. What will we die for? How do we want to be remembered? What becomes our eulogy is determined by how we are living our life now but how should we live out our lives to the glory of God? Is what we are doing now setting us up for what really matters to God?

But the word of God increased and multiplied
- Acts 12:24 (ESV)

Called Out - We Have Good News

Associate Pastor of Bethel Dallas and planter of Every Nation Brisbane, special guest Pastor Ken Dew continues our Called Out series. We have been called out to go to the culture to engage it with the good news (Gospel). We are not responsible for how God gets the Gospel out to the world but we are responsible for the message we preach and the way in which we preach it. When the truth is presented to the lost the Gospel is revealed. If we never give them the gospel we'll never give them the truth.

For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation.
- 2 Corinthians 5:19 (NLT)

Called Out - Eat In or Take Out

​Pastor Neli continues with our Called Out series with this week being about Peter and Cornelius. God wants us to rise and stand up but stand for righteousness. He wants us to go down, humbling ourselves and get amongst those who are not like us. There is a beauty that God wants to bring out of us where we go beyond our ethnicity and class and language to worship God. How many of us are willing and ready today to rise in the faith that God has for us and to go down?

Rise and go down and accompany them without hesitation, for I have sent them.” And Peter went down to the men and said, “I am the one you are looking for. What is the reason for your coming?”
Acts 10:20-21 (ESV)

Called Out - Eye Drops and Hooligans

Week 8 in our Called Out series and this time Pastor Neli talks about Saul/Paul from the Book of Acts. Like Saul, God wants us to rise and enter into his presence but are we living a life too comfortable? God has a specific lane he wants us to run in but sometimes we don't like the prodding of the Holy Spirit as he tries to shape us into the character that's required for the destiny that he has for us. God wants us to come out of a place of discomfort and move towards him.

But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel. For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name.”
Acts 9:15-16 (ESV)

Called Out - The Transporter

Join us for week 7 of our Called Out Series.  Pastor Neli continues through the Book of Acts as we talk about the evangelism work of Paul.  An evangelist is a person who "transports" the good news (Gospel).  God has called us to be transporters of the good news.  We must go with the one who gave us the instructions so we're not hesitant to go at all.  Let us take responsibility for our walk with Jesus as we seek opportunities to engage with every person we encounter.

Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this Scripture he told him the good news about Jesus.
- Acts 8:35 (ESV)