This weekend at LAC, we conclude a brief series entitled “Here and There.” The question we are asking is “What role would God have us play in what he is doing in the world?” The LAC Ministry Council has begun to answer the question this way:
Lake Avenue Church is committed to being a local manifestation of God’s Revelation 7:9 family (i.e., a family made up of people from every “nation, tribe, people, and language”) whose mission is to invite all people into a life-transforming relationship with God and to develop fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ who sacrificially utilize their God-given gifts and resources to expand God’s kingdom in Pasadena, the San Gabriel Valley, and the world.
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The first church with this sense of mission was located in the megacity of Antioch in the first century. Its beginnings are described in Acts 11:19–13:3. During these weeks at LAC, we are asking that church to be our teacher. So far, we have learned four lessons:
Lesson #1: All Christians are necessarily a part of a global mission (Acts 11:19a).
Lesson #2: We need God’s eyes for all people—beginning with those near us—if we will reach the world God has placed us in (Acts 11:19b–20).
Lesson #3: We must be good stewards of where God has planted us—because large cities like our own have always had strategic importance in the fulfillment of God’s mission.
Lesson #4: To be faithful to God’s mission, we must be a church that “breathes out” the message of the Gospel and the love of Christ both “here” and “there.” We will conclude our “course” with the church in Antioch this week. May God speak to us so that we truly will play the role he would have us play in what he is doing in the world.
To His glory,
Dr. Greg Waybright
Senior Pastor