Every Nation Brisbane

From Here To There - Two Words Five Days

This is the second week in our series From Here to There.  On this Easter Sunday, Pastor Neli clarifies what happened in the five days leading up to the crucifixion of Jesus and the importance of the two words Hosanna and Tetelestai.  Jesus came to bring peace.  His people may have cried out "save us now" but through Jesus actions on the cross, it was finished once and for all.

So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!”

- John 12:13 (ESV)

From Here To There - The Good The Bad The Nothing

We're off a new series entitled, From Here To There (Discipleship on purpose).  Pastor Neli describes how we should bear fruit by comparing our relationship with God to the relationship with others.  We can all bear good fruit (Galatians5:22,23) but we must have the correct foundational root because here is no fruitfulness without His presence.  When we are connected to him in the unseen we start bearing fruit with a purpose, for the consumptions of others so that they may taste and see that the Lord is good and flowing through our lives.

So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.

- Matthew 7:17-20 (ESV)

Life changing mentors

We are privileged to have guest speaker Senior Pastor Joe Onosa'i leading our service today from Destiny Christian Church in Hawaii.  Pastor Joe tells us some of his life stories but more importantly were the statements from the people (mentors) that changed his life.

1. Be a leader

2. Quitting is not an option

3. Always be humble

4. Be consistently good no occasionally great

5. Don't try to be amazing just be faithful and it's your faithfulness that will cause you to do amazing things

6. Being a male is a matter of birth but being a man is a matter of choice

7. Show me your vision and I will show you your future

8. Slow is fast and less is more

All In - Relationship Goals

To end our series on All In, Tua outlines discipleship in the context of relationships. If trust is the foundation of any relationship, then truth is the beginning.  Discipleship is all about bringing people one step closer to trusting God.  ​Are you willing to go all in for the relationship God is pursuing with you?

And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

- Matthew 28:18-20 (ESV)

All In - The 10 Commandments of Outreach

Pastor Neli reaches out to us about a great value which Every Nation Brisbane holds true and that is Outreach.  Who better to look for a model of outreach, but Jesus Christ. At times it's going to be inconvenient to reach out to those God is sending you to, but when it's time to reach out, the Holy Spirit will speak to you.

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

John 4:10 (ESV)

All In- In The Zone

Our All In series continues with In The Zone.  This week Pastor Neli speaks about Worship and asks us to search within ourselves to identify our true worship. Worship is not just a slow song you sing in a Sunday church service.  It is life. A worshiper will glorify, sacrifice and submit to that which he worships.  Does God take a place of worship in your life?

Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.

- Romans 12:1 (ESV)

All In - REALationships

We continue our series All In as Pastor Neli discusses real relationships.  Relationships not just with our close friends and family but with one another, with those who we might find it more difficult to love as well as our relationship with God.  God wants to restore certain qualities in our life in order to have a real relationship with Him.  

We love because he first loved us

- 1 John 4:19 (ESV)

All In - By Hook Or By Crook?

Starting a new series this week called "ALL IN".  When someone is all in, it means that are all the way in terms of value.  Pastor Neli compares the values of Jesus with that of the church and ultimately asks where our values are.  Jesus values true worshipers, the lost, multi-generational growth, and Christ builds through family.

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.

- Luke 19:10 (ESV)

Strengthen Then Net - A Frayed Knot? Afraid? Not!

Pastor Neli continues our series on Strengthening The Net.  God is calling our church to catch fish and to walk together with one another.  God is strengthening our net so that we will not be a cord that frays and breaks.  There is a promise that if we adhere to we will not fall.  One way to avoid falling is to preach the gospel to ourselves every day.

One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple.

- Psalms 27:4 (ESV)

Strengthen The Net - Mend Bend and Send

Pastor Neli continues our series this week with "Mend Bend and Send". When we compare our church to a fisherman's net, we sometimes forget the method and purpose the net has.  Keep this in mind as we answer God's call.  God will gather us to mend us.  He'll then bend us so that we will learn to walk with one another.  Then God will cast the net He has built and send us to where the fish need to be caught most.

Passing alongside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. And Jesus said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men.” And immediately they left their nets and followed him.

- Mark 1:16-18 (ESV)