Can you help me write these sermons and book?

This is a tentative road map of where we are going in this series. It might change or receive some additions, but this is the basic sketch.

What I want to know is this: What do you think, and what is the Spirit saying to you about the topics and texts below? Pick one or two or three that interest you and pray and meditate on the passage or topic and share your insights with me. Be sure to include your name because if I use your stuff, I will footnote you in both the sermon and the forthcoming book!

Here is some helpful info:

Each sermon will follow this basic format:(1) How does the text or the topic reveal the way that God reaches out to humanity through Christ, and (2) how do we then allow Christ to, in a similar way, reach out to humanity through us? So, your insights might be historical and biblical as they pertain to Christ’s ministry to people, or they might be contemporary and innovative pertaining to how we minister to the world as the Church.

Thanks for your help and may you be blessed in your studies.

‐Britt

• About the biblical concept of mission

• About the Trinity as the basis for love and mission

• About the Incarnation as the model for and expression of mission

• About Jesus and His inauguration, proclamation, and demonstration of the in‐breaking of the Kingdom of God

• Text: Mark 1:14‐15

• About Jesus’ calling of some of the disciples and how He calls us not to comfort or merely to heaven, but to Himself and to mission

• Text: Matthew 4:18‐22

• About how Jesus sought out the woman at the well, met her in her brokenness, and in doing so crossed all sorts of culturally accepted barriers

• Text: John 4

• About how Jesus touches the untouchables in society and reaches out to the marginalized and forgotten

• Text: Mark 1:40‐42

• About how Jesus extends mercy to those who deserve it least and freed the woman caught in adultery from the death penalty of the Law

• Text: John 8:1‐11

• About how Jesus reaches out to the affluent who have compromised right principles and transforms their worldviews and restores them to community

• Text: Luke 19:1‐10

• About Jesus’ visit to the Garasene Demoniac and how He renews the existence of the tortured and tormented

• Text: Mark 5:1‐20

• About Jesus’ dealings with the Pharisees, legalists, and religionists

• About how Jesus gets in Peter's boat, directs him to the great catch, and Peter's life is never the same again

• Text: Luke 5:1‐1

• Jesus was sent to die. Jesus calls us to die. We are not more privileged than Jesus.