WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:17.760 Father, thank you for bringing us together again, for allowing us to look at your word, to be encouraged with confidence in what you have done, in your sufficient power, not in ours or anything we can do, but only in the work of Christ on the cross, Lord. 00:00:17.760 --> 00:00:24.000 We thank you and we commit this time to you and your glory in Jesus name. Amen. 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:34.600 Nice one. So we're going to talk about values once again. And so just for the sake of consistency, what are our values? 00:00:41.299 --> 00:00:42.460 Come on. 00:00:42.760 --> 00:00:43.659 Gospelly centered. 00:00:44.159 --> 00:00:46.179 Gospelly centered. Well done. 00:00:48.939 --> 00:00:50.120 Keep going. 00:00:51.659 --> 00:00:52.799 Lovingly diverse. 00:00:52.799 --> 00:00:54.399 Lovingly diverse. 00:00:54.879 --> 00:00:57.079 Prayerfully dependent. 00:00:57.659 --> 00:00:59.859 Servantly led. 00:01:02.859 --> 00:01:05.060 Kingdomly minded. 00:01:12.439 --> 00:01:13.939 Locally rooted. Nice one. 00:01:14.539 --> 00:01:19.159 See, you guys made fun of me from my LYs, but that's how you remember them now, isn't it? 00:01:19.159 --> 00:01:24.439 It's a little mnemonic device that you just didn't know you needed. 00:01:25.619 --> 00:01:30.879 So we're going to look at locally rooted today. 00:01:31.420 --> 00:01:34.500 And then next week we'll look at the final one, which is kingdomly minded. 00:01:34.599 --> 00:01:35.659 We've already done the other four. 00:01:35.759 --> 00:01:36.579 So we're on the last two. 00:01:36.579 --> 00:01:41.659 And these are kind of at least the way I've imagined it in my own since I get to talk about both of them. 00:01:41.900 --> 00:01:43.420 It's kind of part one and part two. 00:01:43.959 --> 00:01:51.179 So we're going to look at some of the same texts this week and then next week when we do the last bit. 00:01:51.180 --> 00:02:03.180 But before we get too far, I will say it's not lost on me in the irony that I'm up here talking about being locally rooted. 00:02:03.180 --> 00:02:17.420 Probably of the people in the room least suited to be talking about being stuck in locally, other than the fact that I've lived here for now five and a half years. 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:19.600 And I'm very happy to say so. 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:25.140 And if the government allows me to, they'll make me a permanent residence any any time now. 00:02:25.659 --> 00:02:26.520 We're still waiting. 00:02:26.520 --> 00:02:30.420 But so anyway, all that's saying. 00:02:31.780 --> 00:02:35.240 There's well, let me say this while I'm on that subject. 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:45.560 So the irony of that, I will say some of you all have lived here and know this area incredibly well. 00:02:46.939 --> 00:02:52.900 And so I feel certainly I'm at a disadvantage in terms of understanding various things. 00:02:52.900 --> 00:02:56.760 There's there are things that I see and I don't understand what's happening or why they are the way they are. 00:02:57.500 --> 00:03:04.360 On the on the other hand, though, right, like there's this idea of pattern blindness where you look at you'll get something for long enough. 00:03:04.980 --> 00:03:07.340 You think you know what you're looking at, but you don't see it anymore. 00:03:07.340 --> 00:03:15.700 Right. And so there's it's helpful that there's a church full of people with different ways of looking at things and different experiences and different paths. 00:03:15.699 --> 00:03:20.819 ones that bring certain things to light and others that can bring the other side of it to light. 00:03:20.959 --> 00:03:23.159 And then that's how these things work really well. 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:25.739 So it's not insignificant. 00:03:26.379 --> 00:03:31.819 And we're really thankful for those of you who have been been here your entire lives and were amazed by that. 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:40.959 And so I hope that those of us who have not been can bring something of value to a conversation like this and help it. 00:03:40.960 --> 00:03:47.080 But anyway, question for you all with with a neighbor just to get this thing started. 00:03:48.020 --> 00:03:49.640 So we're talking about local church. 00:03:49.640 --> 00:03:53.560 Right. And we've spent basically the. 00:03:57.140 --> 00:04:06.080 Interesting. So as I was trying to study for this, there's there's not a lot of writing that's been done on what it means to be. 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:12.400 Local church in terms of like not just one unit of this larger church. 00:04:12.620 --> 00:04:13.560 So it's interesting. 00:04:13.920 --> 00:04:15.200 So here's the question. 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:20.340 How is a local church or the local church distinct from God's universal church? 00:04:20.819 --> 00:04:23.340 And I think that's a helpful way for us to get started. 00:04:23.420 --> 00:04:27.500 Right. So how is the local church or a local church distinct and unique? 00:04:27.500 --> 00:04:33.220 And how does that fit in with God's broader kind of global church? 00:04:33.720 --> 00:04:36.560 Two minutes. Just discuss that amongst yourselves. 00:04:38.180 --> 00:04:38.980 All right. 00:04:40.600 --> 00:04:41.660 Good conversation. 00:04:42.939 --> 00:04:44.920 I feel like we know we know all the answers now. 00:04:47.060 --> 00:04:49.540 Just for the sake of sharing. 00:04:50.399 --> 00:04:51.920 What did some of you say? 00:04:52.680 --> 00:04:53.199 Any ideas? 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:58.279 What makes the local church distinct? 00:05:01.639 --> 00:05:02.659 Anyone? Not all at once. 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.340 --> 00:05:03.340 00:05:03.339 --> 00:05:12.539 Do you think that the universal church, that's basically the same thing that we believe in the world is? 00:05:16.459 --> 00:05:21.639 The church operates with the different ways, the different places. 00:05:21.639 --> 00:05:32.639 The church in the second century, the second century, the different worships. 00:05:33.339 --> 00:05:35.839 I think that's the key to the church. 00:05:35.839 --> 00:05:36.839 Sure. 00:05:36.839 --> 00:05:50.339 Yeah, so the universal church should be at least all kind of doing the same things, but the localness of a particular body would look different based on its cultural context, etc. 00:05:50.339 --> 00:05:52.339 Yeah, I think that's part of it. 00:05:52.339 --> 00:05:54.339 What else? Anything besides that? 00:05:54.339 --> 00:06:00.839 Jeff said that it was about concern for a local area. 00:06:00.839 --> 00:06:06.839 So it's like the concerns that the global church has, but it's like landed in this area. 00:06:06.839 --> 00:06:08.839 So it's like responsibility. 00:06:08.839 --> 00:06:11.339 Yeah, concern for a local area. 00:06:11.339 --> 00:06:20.339 So sort of the application of the biblical truths to a specific people and place at a particular time. 00:06:20.339 --> 00:06:22.339 Good, yeah? 00:06:22.339 --> 00:06:23.339 Can I... 00:06:23.339 --> 00:06:34.839 So in the book of Revelation, Jesus writes to the local churches. 00:06:34.839 --> 00:06:38.839 And he says he knows their works, he knows their deeds. 00:06:38.839 --> 00:06:43.339 And in some way, she starts thinking. 00:06:43.339 --> 00:06:57.339 Part of being the local church is understanding that God actually wants us to be people who are... 00:06:57.339 --> 00:07:00.839 people who are followers of him. 00:07:00.839 --> 00:07:09.839 And so part of us being the local church, maybe, before we do all the other things, 00:07:09.839 --> 00:07:16.839 is actually coming to the Lord and asking him to, first of all, examine us as a local church, 00:07:16.839 --> 00:07:22.839 what it is, what are our deeds, where it is that we're not possibly pleasing him. 00:07:22.839 --> 00:07:23.339 Yeah. 00:07:23.339 --> 00:07:28.339 Before we can begin to sort of think that, here, which is all we have to do. 00:07:28.339 --> 00:07:28.839 Yeah. 00:07:28.839 --> 00:07:32.839 But each church had a different thing that Jesus was pointing to. 00:07:32.839 --> 00:07:35.839 Different sort of flaw or blind spot, if you will. 00:07:35.839 --> 00:07:37.839 Local churches, so he spoke to them. 00:07:37.839 --> 00:07:38.839 Yeah. 00:07:38.839 --> 00:07:43.839 So how is God speaking to us as a local church here in Kilby? 00:07:43.839 --> 00:07:44.839 This church... 00:07:44.839 --> 00:07:45.839 Yeah. 00:07:45.839 --> 00:07:46.839 Forget Donbleton and the others. 00:07:46.839 --> 00:07:47.839 How is God speaking to us? 00:07:47.839 --> 00:07:50.839 I can sit down now and we can just talk about that. 00:07:50.839 --> 00:07:51.839 No. 00:07:51.839 --> 00:07:53.839 I mean, that's it. 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:54.839 That's... 00:07:54.839 --> 00:07:55.839 I think that's the point, right? 00:07:55.839 --> 00:08:00.839 That how is God speaking to us and how does he want to use this group of people in this 00:08:00.839 --> 00:08:01.839 specific spot? 00:08:01.839 --> 00:08:06.839 And I think that's hopefully what we'll sort of get to. 00:08:06.839 --> 00:08:08.839 So thanks for considering that. 00:08:08.839 --> 00:08:15.839 So we're going to look at a few passages, kind of jump around a little bit, and then I'm 00:08:15.839 --> 00:08:22.839 going to bring it together by looking at the church in Antioch from the book of Acts. 00:08:22.839 --> 00:08:25.839 So you can flip around if you're quick. 00:08:25.839 --> 00:08:27.839 So we're going to start in Matthew 22. 00:08:27.839 --> 00:08:29.839 That's on 9, 8, 9. 00:08:29.839 --> 00:08:32.839 No, it's not. 00:08:32.839 --> 00:08:36.839 9, 9, 0. 00:08:36.840 --> 00:08:40.840 But actually, it's going to be 9, 9, 1 by the time we actually get to the verse that 00:08:40.840 --> 00:08:41.840 we're talking about. 00:08:41.840 --> 00:08:46.840 So 22, 34 to 40 is where we'll start. 00:08:46.840 --> 00:08:51.840 This is the greatest commandment. 00:08:51.840 --> 00:08:56.840 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together, and one of them, 00:08:56.840 --> 00:08:58.840 an expert in the law, tested him with this question. 00:08:58.840 --> 00:09:02.840 He said, Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law? 00:09:02.840 --> 00:09:07.840 And Jesus replied, Love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:08.840 mind. 00:09:08.840 --> 00:09:10.840 This is the first and greatest commandment. 00:09:10.840 --> 00:09:11.840 And the second is like it. 00:09:11.840 --> 00:09:14.840 Love your neighbor as yourself. 00:09:14.840 --> 00:09:17.840 And all the law and prophets hang on these two commandments. 00:09:19.840 --> 00:09:25.840 So we've got this greatest commandment that came from Jesus, right? 00:09:25.840 --> 00:09:32.840 And interestingly, in the Luke version of this, it's slightly, it may be a different event, 00:09:32.840 --> 00:09:35.840 but it's the same basic context. 00:09:35.840 --> 00:09:47.840 So in Luke chapter 10, you see, it says, 10, 25, 10, 41 is the page number. 00:09:47.840 --> 00:09:50.840 It says, On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. 00:09:50.840 --> 00:09:51.840 He's a teacher. 00:09:51.840 --> 00:09:54.840 What must I do to inherit eternal life? 00:09:54.840 --> 00:09:57.840 And Jesus responds with, Well, what is written in the law? 00:09:57.840 --> 00:09:58.840 How do you read it? 00:09:58.840 --> 00:10:01.840 And the man answered, Well, love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and 00:10:01.840 --> 00:10:05.840 all your strength and with all your mind, and love your neighbor as yourself. 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:08.840 Jesus says, You have answered correctly. 00:10:08.840 --> 00:10:10.840 Do this and you will live. 00:10:10.840 --> 00:10:12.840 But he wanted to justify himself. 00:10:12.840 --> 00:10:15.840 And so he asked, Who is my neighbor? 00:10:15.840 --> 00:10:20.840 And then Jesus goes into the parable of the Good Samaritan, which I'll read. 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:21.840 Why not? 00:10:21.840 --> 00:10:26.840 In reply, he said, A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho when he was attacked by robbers. 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:30.840 They stripped him of his clothes, beat him, and went away, leaving him half dead. 00:10:30.840 --> 00:10:35.840 A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:42.840 So, too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side of the road. 00:10:42.840 --> 00:10:46.840 But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was. 00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:48.840 And when he saw him, he took pity on him. 00:10:48.840 --> 00:10:52.840 And when he went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine, 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:55.840 and he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him. 00:10:55.840 --> 00:11:01.840 And the next day, gave him two denarii, or gave them to the innkeeper, and said, Look after him. 00:11:01.840 --> 00:11:05.840 And when I return, I'll reimburse you for any extra you may have spent. 00:11:05.840 --> 00:11:11.840 And Jesus asked, Which of these three do you think was the neighbor to the man who fell into the hand of the robbers? 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:15.840 And the expert in the law replied, The one who had mercy on him. 00:11:15.840 --> 00:11:17.840 And so Jesus said, Go and do likewise. 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:25.840 So you've got this sort of explanation from Jesus, talking to, in this case, a Pharisee, 00:11:25.840 --> 00:11:30.840 a kind of expert in the law, someone who knew his stuff, was trying to test Jesus. 00:11:30.840 --> 00:11:36.840 And Jesus gives us this greatest commandment, which the greatest commandment is to love the Lord your God, right? 00:11:36.840 --> 00:11:39.840 But the second, being like it, is love your neighbor. 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:50.840 And so there's a specific command to the people who are following Jesus, the church, to love our neighbor. 00:11:50.840 --> 00:12:00.840 And obviously, in the Good Samaritan, he gives us a description of who our neighbor is, or what a neighbor looks like, really. 00:12:00.840 --> 00:12:04.840 So to be a good neighbor, we have to understand what a good neighbor is. 00:12:04.840 --> 00:12:11.840 Obviously, in this context, we're thinking about being neighbors to actual neighbors, people who live in the general area. 00:12:11.840 --> 00:12:14.840 So that's one aspect that Jesus brings to us. 00:12:14.840 --> 00:12:20.840 If we go back to Matthew, I'm going to run fast through these, but there'll be a point. 00:12:20.840 --> 00:12:24.840 Matthew 28, so this is page 1000. 00:12:24.840 --> 00:12:29.840 So we get to the Great Commission. 00:12:29.840 --> 00:12:32.840 So we have the Great Commandment, now we have the Great Commission. 00:12:32.840 --> 00:12:34.840 In verse 16, there at the bottom, it says, 00:12:34.840 --> 00:12:39.840 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 00:12:39.840 --> 00:12:42.840 And when they saw him, they worshipped him, but some had doubted. 00:12:42.840 --> 00:12:44.840 Then Jesus came to them and said, 00:12:44.840 --> 00:12:55.840 So we've got the Great Commandment, and we've got the Great Commission. 00:12:55.840 --> 00:13:02.840 And so in the Great Commandment, really the second greatest, Jesus is telling us, telling the church to love our neighbor. 00:13:02.840 --> 00:13:09.840 And then in the Great Commission, he's telling you to go make disciples and baptize them. 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:14.840 So go to your neighbor, and then tell them about me. 00:13:14.840 --> 00:13:16.840 Right? So love them and tell them. 00:13:16.840 --> 00:13:21.840 This is kind of the two things that he gives us, in a sense of how to do this. 00:13:21.840 --> 00:13:22.840 Right? 00:13:22.840 --> 00:13:24.840 And so let me just look at one more. 00:13:24.840 --> 00:13:26.840 Why not while we're here? 00:13:26.840 --> 00:13:33.840 So James, so flip back to that one. 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:39.840 James, James, James, James, where are you? 00:13:39.840 --> 00:13:41.840 Someone shouted out when you get it there. 00:13:41.840 --> 00:13:46.840 James 1, so this is 12, 13 in the Church Bibles. 00:13:46.840 --> 00:13:51.840 James 1, starting in verse 19. 00:13:51.840 --> 00:13:53.840 It says, 00:13:53.840 --> 00:13:55.840 My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this. 00:13:55.840 --> 00:13:57.840 Everyone should be quick to listen, 00:13:57.840 --> 00:13:59.840 but let me just look at one more. 00:13:59.840 --> 00:14:01.840 Let me just look at one more. 00:14:01.840 --> 00:14:03.840 Why not while we're here? 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:05.840 So James, so flip back to that one. 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:07.840 James, James, where are you? 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:08.840 And the sisters, take note of this. 00:14:08.840 --> 00:14:11.840 Everyone should be quick to listen, so to speak, 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:12.840 and slow to become angry, 00:14:12.840 --> 00:14:16.840 because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:20.840 Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent, 00:14:20.840 --> 00:14:24.840 and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you. 00:14:24.840 --> 00:14:28.840 But do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. 00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:29.840 Do what it says. 00:14:29.840 --> 00:14:32.840 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says 00:14:32.840 --> 00:14:34.840 is like someone who looks at his face in the mirror 00:14:34.840 --> 00:14:38.840 and after looking at himself goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 00:14:38.840 --> 00:14:43.840 But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom and continues in it, 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:45.840 not forgetting what they have heard but doing it, 00:14:45.840 --> 00:14:47.840 they will be blessed in what they do. 00:14:47.840 --> 00:14:48.840 And it says, 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:53.840 Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, 00:14:53.840 --> 00:14:55.840 and their religion is worthless. 00:14:55.840 --> 00:15:00.840 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this, 00:15:00.840 --> 00:15:06.840 to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. 00:15:06.840 --> 00:15:13.840 So it's an interesting way to add that James adds to do something with our faith, 00:15:13.840 --> 00:15:18.840 not to just look at ourselves in a mirror and then forget what we look like, right? 00:15:18.840 --> 00:15:22.840 So sort of, I hear things in one ear and out the other. 00:15:22.840 --> 00:15:27.840 That's one of the phrases that my mother used to tell me all the time. 00:15:27.840 --> 00:15:37.840 Anyway, so all of that, I want you to keep those in your mind while we read from Acts about the church in Antioch. 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:39.840 So it's Acts 11. 00:15:39.840 --> 00:15:41.840 We'll start in verse 19. 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:43.840 So that's 11.05. 00:15:43.840 --> 00:15:49.840 It says, 00:16:13.840 --> 00:16:25.840 News of this reached the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch. 00:16:25.840 --> 00:16:28.840 And when he arrived, he saw what the grace of God had done, 00:16:28.840 --> 00:16:32.840 and he was glad and encouraged them to remain true to the Lord with all their hearts. 00:16:32.840 --> 00:16:37.840 He was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith, and a great number of people were brought to the Lord. 00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:42.840 And then Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul, and when he found him, he brought him back to Antioch. 00:16:42.840 --> 00:16:47.840 So for a whole year, Barnabas and Saul met with the church and taught great numbers of people, 00:16:47.840 --> 00:16:51.840 and the disciples were called Christians first at Antioch. 00:16:51.840 --> 00:16:56.840 So, Antioch is a church. 00:16:56.840 --> 00:17:02.840 So Antioch, it's in what is modern-day Turkey, kind of right at the bottom, close to where that would touch. 00:17:02.840 --> 00:17:05.840 I guess that's Syria there on that line. 00:17:05.840 --> 00:17:12.840 And so, Antioch is kind of the biggest city between Rome and Alexandria. 00:17:12.840 --> 00:17:18.840 So if you imagine sort of the Mediterranean kind of in this sort of backwards C-shape, 00:17:18.840 --> 00:17:21.840 you've got Alexandria in Egypt, and you've got Rome up here. 00:17:21.839 --> 00:17:25.839 Antioch is kind of halfway between on the land route if you went there. 00:17:25.839 --> 00:17:29.839 It had gotten large because it was part of the Silk Road and everything, 00:17:29.839 --> 00:17:34.839 taking things from the east back to the center in Rome. 00:17:34.839 --> 00:17:37.839 Anyway, all that to say, there's a church there. 00:17:37.839 --> 00:17:44.839 And what we see in this church there is that after people had the Christians, 00:17:44.839 --> 00:17:51.839 the early Christians, though they weren't called that yet, left Jerusalem because of the persecution that was happening after Stephen was stoned. 00:17:51.839 --> 00:17:55.839 Some of them ended up in Antioch, and they just start doing things. 00:17:55.839 --> 00:18:01.839 And what I want us to look at is how does the church in Antioch 00:18:01.839 --> 00:18:07.839 exemplify the qualities that we saw in the Greatest Commandment and the Great Commission, 00:18:07.839 --> 00:18:11.839 exampled by the stories of the Good Samaritan and sort of James, right? 00:18:11.839 --> 00:18:19.839 So just think about it, right? This is a local church in an area, in a city, and they're put there. 00:18:19.839 --> 00:18:25.839 And so what do we see just even in these few verses that gives us evidence that the Greatest Commandment 00:18:25.839 --> 00:18:28.839 and the Great Commission are happening there? 00:18:30.839 --> 00:18:33.839 One minute to talk about it, and then we'll come back here. 00:18:33.839 --> 00:18:40.839 All right. How do we get on? We have some thoughts? 00:18:40.839 --> 00:18:49.839 How does this church, this one in Antioch, show us things like from the Greatest Commandment and from the Great Commission? 00:18:49.839 --> 00:18:51.839 What do we see in there? 00:18:56.839 --> 00:18:59.839 You guys were doing a lot of talking, so I know there's things. 00:18:59.839 --> 00:19:02.839 Unless you're talking about something else, which is highly possible. 00:19:02.839 --> 00:19:10.839 So they just sit there and think of some of them and they spread the word to the Gentiles. 00:19:10.839 --> 00:19:14.839 That's right. So being ethnic Jews, they find themselves in another place. 00:19:14.839 --> 00:19:18.839 Some start by talking to Jews, but then they start talking to the Greeks as well. 00:19:18.839 --> 00:19:21.839 So the other people that were in the area. That's good. 00:19:21.839 --> 00:19:27.839 We'll let someone else. We'll come back to you, Mike, if we need to. 00:19:27.839 --> 00:19:30.839 Verse 24, a great number of people will walk through. 00:19:30.839 --> 00:19:32.839 So that's the great question. 00:19:32.839 --> 00:19:33.839 Yeah, so... 00:19:33.839 --> 00:19:35.839 Speaking of the Gospel to the Lord. 00:19:35.839 --> 00:19:38.839 They must be sharing the Gospel, because they're coming to the Lord. 00:19:38.839 --> 00:19:39.839 Yeah, that's good. 00:19:39.839 --> 00:19:47.839 And the Jewish church was concerned about it, to send some of the iconocles. 00:19:47.839 --> 00:19:50.839 They obviously had to plan with him, so they would have felt the loss of sending him out. 00:19:50.839 --> 00:19:52.839 Yeah, that's interesting, isn't it? 00:19:52.839 --> 00:19:54.839 That they're like, what's going on up there? 00:19:54.839 --> 00:19:57.839 And so they send one of their guys out to kind of check it out. 00:19:57.839 --> 00:19:59.839 But he comes back with good report. 00:19:59.839 --> 00:20:01.839 So they're doing it right. 00:20:01.839 --> 00:20:10.839 They seem to be giving money to help people in the first 29th. 00:20:10.839 --> 00:20:13.839 Yeah, we didn't actually read that far, but yes. 00:20:13.839 --> 00:20:16.839 Provide help for the brothers and sisters living in GDS. 00:20:16.839 --> 00:20:18.839 Yeah, so there's a generosity. 00:20:18.839 --> 00:20:24.839 There's something they're sacrificing in some capacity to help. 00:20:24.839 --> 00:20:26.839 Or loving their neighbor and connect. 00:20:26.839 --> 00:20:30.839 Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, that's good. 00:20:31.839 --> 00:20:39.839 It might be something that there was a risk to reading success, because it's before that, isn't it? 00:20:39.839 --> 00:20:44.839 I think it's the awareness of God's grace flowing through it. 00:20:44.839 --> 00:20:52.839 Because actually, God either caused it or allowed them to be persecuted, for the message to be spread. 00:20:52.839 --> 00:20:56.839 It tells us innately that they would not spread. 00:20:56.839 --> 00:20:59.839 It would probably stick to that word and all that. 00:20:59.839 --> 00:21:04.839 So in God's grace, like that was a tool God used for the gospel to read to the dead of our world. 00:21:04.839 --> 00:21:06.839 That's right, yeah. 00:21:06.839 --> 00:21:09.839 So the persecution is what sends them out. 00:21:09.839 --> 00:21:13.839 But they don't just keep to themselves, hide in a basement. 00:21:13.839 --> 00:21:15.839 They're out, they're telling people. 00:21:15.839 --> 00:21:18.839 They're sharing the good news that they've heard. 00:21:18.839 --> 00:21:22.839 Which is essentially what we're called to do. 00:21:22.839 --> 00:21:34.839 There's an interesting dynamic in the church today, meaning like current era, not necessarily 2025 in particular, but current era. 00:21:34.839 --> 00:21:44.839 So really post, you've got the Constantine, right? 00:21:44.839 --> 00:21:49.839 When Constantine makes Christianity not illegal, right? 00:21:49.839 --> 00:21:52.839 Then you have this period of time where Christianity becomes dominant. 00:21:52.839 --> 00:21:53.839 It's the largest thing. 00:21:53.839 --> 00:22:02.839 And so particularly in the West, the model had been for a long time, basically open the doors to a church building and people come in. 00:22:02.839 --> 00:22:05.839 And then that's how you serve your neighborhood, right? 00:22:05.839 --> 00:22:07.839 That's how you serve your area. 00:22:07.839 --> 00:22:17.839 You can argue about when that may have changed, but let's say in the relatively recent era, that isn't the way it works anymore, right? 00:22:17.839 --> 00:22:26.839 This was a long period of time where you could have done, you could have planted a church by building a building and opening doors and people would come in and they'd find themselves in it as a church. 00:22:26.839 --> 00:22:29.839 But now that's not necessarily the case. 00:22:29.839 --> 00:22:43.839 And so it's almost like going back to that pre-Constantine era where churches were mostly kind of in houses and they had to go out to the community to reach them and then bring them in and be part of the church. 00:22:43.839 --> 00:22:45.839 So that's an interesting dynamic, right? 00:22:45.839 --> 00:22:51.839 And so we find ourselves here and we're kind of looking at, well, what is the church locally, right? 00:22:51.839 --> 00:22:55.839 Going back to our original question, what is the local church actually called with? 00:22:55.839 --> 00:22:58.839 We know that it's the proclamation of the gospel. 00:22:58.839 --> 00:23:04.839 We know that it's discipleship of the saints so that we can grow up and know Jesus. 00:23:04.839 --> 00:23:10.839 And we know that we care and love for one another once we're here. 00:23:10.839 --> 00:23:22.839 But all of a sudden, if we're only talking to ourselves, that becomes a pretty closed, it's a river that goes into an end and doesn't keep flowing, right? 00:23:22.839 --> 00:23:23.839 It just stops. 00:23:23.839 --> 00:23:27.839 And so that we can proclaim the gospel all we want in this room. 00:23:27.839 --> 00:23:29.839 But if no one in here has not heard it before, right? 00:23:29.839 --> 00:23:30.839 It's good. 00:23:30.839 --> 00:23:31.839 It's helpful to us. 00:23:31.839 --> 00:23:33.839 But it's not the only thing, right? 00:23:33.839 --> 00:23:35.839 So there's got to be something else. 00:23:35.839 --> 00:23:42.839 And if we're not inviting new people in, we're not getting that message to new people, then we're not being a good neighbor. 00:23:42.839 --> 00:23:49.839 We're not fulfilling the second greatest commandment to love our neighbors like ourselves. 00:23:49.839 --> 00:23:52.839 So as we transition, so sorry about that. 00:23:52.839 --> 00:23:54.839 I felt a little academic. 00:23:54.839 --> 00:23:57.839 I think it was helpful because what we're next going to talk about. 00:23:57.839 --> 00:24:06.839 So thinking about West Kilburn, thinking about this patch of dirt that we happen to stand on on Sundays and other days during the week, 00:24:06.839 --> 00:24:14.839 this area that many of us call home, depending on how far you come from to be here, right? 00:24:14.839 --> 00:24:16.839 This is our community, right? 00:24:18.839 --> 00:24:20.839 What is our local community? 00:24:20.839 --> 00:24:21.839 And who is it? 00:24:22.839 --> 00:24:23.839 Just shout those out. 00:24:23.839 --> 00:24:25.839 We don't have to stop. 00:24:25.839 --> 00:24:27.839 Who is our local community and what is it? 00:24:31.839 --> 00:24:33.839 Yeah. 00:24:33.839 --> 00:24:35.839 Who are they, Jeff? 00:24:35.839 --> 00:24:36.839 Yeah. 00:24:38.839 --> 00:24:38.839 00:24:42.839 --> 00:24:43.839 Who lives around you, Jeff? 00:24:43.839 --> 00:24:44.839 Like what kind of people? 00:24:44.839 --> 00:24:45.839 Who do you see? 00:24:50.839 --> 00:24:50.839 00:24:50.839 --> 00:24:52.839 We're in the country. 00:24:52.839 --> 00:24:53.839 Okay. 00:24:54.839 --> 00:24:55.839 Yeah, just people. 00:24:56.839 --> 00:24:57.839 Just people. 00:24:57.839 --> 00:24:59.839 We see just people like ourself, but we don't know. 00:24:59.839 --> 00:25:00.839 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:25:00.839 --> 00:25:02.839 We don't know if our people don't know. 00:25:02.839 --> 00:25:03.839 That's our culture. 00:25:03.839 --> 00:25:04.839 Yeah, our culture. 00:25:04.839 --> 00:25:05.839 Yeah, our culture. 00:25:05.839 --> 00:25:14.199 Yeah. How about demographically? Who's in our local area? Who is our local community? 00:25:15.480 --> 00:25:15.879 Mosque. 00:25:16.459 --> 00:25:19.759 We have a mosque next door, okay. The Albanian mosque. 00:25:20.439 --> 00:25:21.319 There's lots of young people. 00:25:22.039 --> 00:25:27.139 There's a lot of young people. What kind, give me more description on that. 00:25:28.899 --> 00:25:33.059 There's also, say, children, we keep down here, there's school children. 00:25:33.059 --> 00:25:34.019 School children, yeah. 00:25:35.839 --> 00:25:37.559 And the final school lost price for the children. 00:25:39.919 --> 00:25:44.199 And then, yeah, I've been in Queen's Park since then. 00:25:44.459 --> 00:25:49.480 It was about 400,000, 25-year-olds sitting on the grass. 00:25:50.459 --> 00:25:51.959 Yeah, today. Absolutely. 00:25:53.699 --> 00:25:58.819 So one of my colleagues described Queen's Park this past week as a bit yummy mummy. 00:25:59.819 --> 00:26:01.059 So, if... 00:26:01.059 --> 00:26:02.759 A bit. 00:26:02.759 --> 00:26:08.859 So, young families, children, young people, 20-somethings. 00:26:10.019 --> 00:26:11.960 Are they new to the area? Have they been here a long time? 00:26:18.839 --> 00:26:19.200 Yes. 00:26:19.279 --> 00:26:19.759 Yes and no? 00:26:19.920 --> 00:26:20.019 Yeah. 00:26:22.299 --> 00:26:24.940 The ones that were in Queen's Park were probably pretty new to the area. 00:26:25.119 --> 00:26:25.299 Yeah. 00:26:25.839 --> 00:26:26.460 Be my guess. 00:26:26.460 --> 00:26:26.539 Yes. 00:26:26.539 --> 00:26:26.900 Yes. 00:26:26.900 --> 00:26:32.100 That's right. 00:26:34.980 --> 00:26:37.759 It's not as easy of a question to answer, is it? 00:26:38.100 --> 00:26:39.100 There's a lot of people here. 00:26:39.519 --> 00:26:41.080 And there's a lot of different people here. 00:26:41.820 --> 00:26:42.540 Lola's not here. 00:26:43.000 --> 00:26:49.940 Lola and I were talking about this a week ago as we were thinking through some stuff for kind of marketing slash, 00:26:49.940 --> 00:26:53.580 you know, it's not a great term, but like brand marketing for the church. 00:26:53.799 --> 00:26:58.440 And we've got people who have lived here their whole lives. 00:26:58.559 --> 00:26:59.880 We've got people who have just moved in. 00:27:00.600 --> 00:27:07.460 We've got people who, you know, ethnically are, you know, Afro-Caribbean. 00:27:07.580 --> 00:27:10.820 We've got people who are ethnically very different than that. 00:27:10.880 --> 00:27:11.700 And we've got South Asians. 00:27:11.700 --> 00:27:14.039 We've got Middle Eastern people. 00:27:15.039 --> 00:27:16.680 You know, there's a mosque up the street. 00:27:17.440 --> 00:27:20.900 Two Islamic schools at the top of Salisbury School, Salisbury Road. 00:27:21.860 --> 00:27:24.100 You know, there's all kinds of people around here. 00:27:24.860 --> 00:27:28.299 There's a bunch of wacky Americans that find their way here as well. 00:27:29.039 --> 00:27:29.140 Right. 00:27:29.220 --> 00:27:32.480 So it's like kind of both ends of the spectrum. 00:27:33.420 --> 00:27:38.200 If it was a spectrum, it's more like some sort of star thing where they're going all directions. 00:27:38.480 --> 00:27:41.220 But we've got a lot of people from a lot of different things. 00:27:41.220 --> 00:27:44.160 And there's young people, the youngest of people. 00:27:44.360 --> 00:27:46.240 And there's people who have been here for a long time. 00:27:46.299 --> 00:27:49.700 And they're up in age, let's say. 00:27:50.779 --> 00:27:50.980 Right. 00:27:51.400 --> 00:28:01.579 And so there's this interesting diversity of people in our area, which is interesting. 00:28:01.579 --> 00:28:03.579 What about geographically? 00:28:03.700 --> 00:28:05.519 What would we consider our area? 00:28:06.360 --> 00:28:06.519 Right. 00:28:06.779 --> 00:28:09.519 What are our ends, if you will? 00:28:09.519 --> 00:28:13.700 What is the area that we serve as a church? 00:28:16.599 --> 00:28:17.279 West Kilburn. 00:28:17.339 --> 00:28:18.039 What is West Kilburn? 00:28:19.539 --> 00:28:20.799 What even is that? 00:28:21.200 --> 00:28:22.359 Oh, that's just this little. 00:28:22.660 --> 00:28:23.180 That's just little. 00:28:23.180 --> 00:28:25.720 They call that South Kilburn. 00:28:25.940 --> 00:28:27.220 They call that Queen's Park. 00:28:27.680 --> 00:28:29.880 They call that Queen's Park too. 00:28:30.360 --> 00:28:30.960 That's Kinzel. 00:28:31.620 --> 00:28:35.700 West Kilburn is this church and that church and like this bit of space in between. 00:28:37.700 --> 00:28:39.600 Those are the only two things that are called West Kilburn. 00:28:39.599 --> 00:28:45.559 Just to say, you know, at this point, I had the best estimate to allocate people. 00:28:46.139 --> 00:28:46.240 Yeah. 00:28:47.059 --> 00:28:49.779 It was using coffee shops. 00:28:51.179 --> 00:28:56.639 We had, in the good spot, Gale's people, Starbucks people, Costa coffee. 00:28:56.980 --> 00:28:57.679 But they cost it. 00:28:58.339 --> 00:28:58.819 Closed. 00:28:58.819 --> 00:28:59.219 Closed. 00:28:59.419 --> 00:29:00.439 So I'm not going to be my sister. 00:29:00.679 --> 00:29:02.000 Just a point. 00:29:02.740 --> 00:29:03.819 Make of it what you will. 00:29:06.119 --> 00:29:06.400 Right. 00:29:06.480 --> 00:29:07.940 So it's interesting, right? 00:29:08.039 --> 00:29:12.960 So these are things we have to think about in terms of reaching our area. 00:29:15.279 --> 00:29:21.079 And so given that context, right, whatever we make of that, and hopefully this is not 00:29:21.079 --> 00:29:23.299 the only time that we sit and think about it. 00:29:23.299 --> 00:29:29.680 But given that context, how might we, as West Kilburn, interact and exemplify the qualities 00:29:29.680 --> 00:29:32.419 of the Great Commandment, the Great Commission? 00:29:33.079 --> 00:29:34.899 How do we look like the Good Samaritan? 00:29:35.039 --> 00:29:41.779 How do we act on and not look at ourselves in the mirror and then walk away and forget 00:29:41.779 --> 00:29:42.519 what we look like? 00:29:42.779 --> 00:29:50.619 How do we do like the church in Enioch did, who found themselves sharing with people that 00:29:50.619 --> 00:29:56.819 were unlike them and seeing a great number of people come and be brought to the Lord such 00:29:56.819 --> 00:29:59.699 that the disciples were then called Christians? 00:30:00.479 --> 00:30:01.419 How do we do that? 00:30:02.079 --> 00:30:02.199 Right? 00:30:02.279 --> 00:30:08.059 That is the big, you know, million pound question for us as a church, right? 00:30:08.059 --> 00:30:17.000 How do we serve our people well such that we're out talking to those people and lovingly 00:30:17.000 --> 00:30:24.779 caring for our neighbors and seeing them as people that we should care about and not walking 00:30:24.779 --> 00:30:30.299 past them quickly to get to Gales or the Tube or wherever else we're going, right? 00:30:30.359 --> 00:30:35.559 Like, that's the question for the local church, particularly in our area. 00:30:41.200 --> 00:30:42.359 Should we have some ideas? 00:30:43.579 --> 00:30:44.400 I don't know. 00:30:44.500 --> 00:30:45.099 That's a big question. 00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:45.299 Liz? 00:30:45.299 --> 00:30:45.359 Liz? 00:30:45.359 --> 00:30:45.359 00:30:47.000 --> 00:30:49.660 I think it's a really, really good question. 00:30:52.660 --> 00:31:01.700 But I just wonder whether we, over the years, have not really loved our neighbor as we should 00:31:01.700 --> 00:31:04.420 have done that particular moment. 00:31:05.559 --> 00:31:12.900 Because we haven't had the heart to see what it is. 00:31:12.900 --> 00:31:15.220 Because we're sitting right on the mission field. 00:31:15.900 --> 00:31:17.880 There's so many different groups. 00:31:19.280 --> 00:31:24.200 But the life, I think what we have done is that we know it's out there. 00:31:24.860 --> 00:31:30.060 And somehow we're waiting for God to, which he can do, to magically bring the people in. 00:31:30.059 --> 00:31:31.059 And I'm not saying God will do that. 00:31:31.059 --> 00:31:32.980 And I'm not saying God will do that. 00:31:32.980 --> 00:31:33.480 Right. 00:31:33.480 --> 00:31:43.919 But I think the desire of really wanting to speak to others about Jesus has in a way has 00:31:43.919 --> 00:31:45.480 got to be a consuming desire. 00:31:45.480 --> 00:31:53.400 And something that we should be really praying for and asking God to help us to see the need. 00:31:53.819 --> 00:31:56.640 Because if we don't see the need, we can talk about it. 00:31:56.819 --> 00:31:57.200 That's right. 00:31:57.200 --> 00:31:57.880 We can talk about it. 00:31:58.140 --> 00:32:00.019 And we can say, yes, we must do that. 00:32:00.099 --> 00:32:00.720 But we've got talks. 00:32:01.140 --> 00:32:01.880 We've got news work. 00:32:02.339 --> 00:32:03.599 And we've got whatever else we've got. 00:32:03.599 --> 00:32:10.519 But unless God gives us that desire to see there is a loss there with hundreds of young 00:32:10.519 --> 00:32:16.419 people and older people going every single day to a lost eternity, unless we see that, 00:32:16.559 --> 00:32:19.859 unless God does that in us, we can do all this. 00:32:19.859 --> 00:32:20.179 That's it. 00:32:21.059 --> 00:32:22.039 And it does nothing. 00:32:22.639 --> 00:32:32.059 So I think the first thing for me is that God's got to really pin it out and just show 00:32:32.059 --> 00:32:37.379 me one who came, one who died, and that he died for those people out there. 00:32:37.559 --> 00:32:38.639 He's got to be working us. 00:32:38.879 --> 00:32:39.240 That's it. 00:32:39.980 --> 00:32:42.899 You know, otherwise this becomes academic. 00:32:43.159 --> 00:32:43.559 Exactly. 00:32:44.119 --> 00:32:44.339 Yeah. 00:32:45.619 --> 00:32:46.019 Absolutely. 00:32:46.240 --> 00:32:46.399 Jen? 00:32:46.399 --> 00:32:46.899 Yeah. 00:32:47.740 --> 00:32:53.319 I'm not taking anything from what you just said, but maybe there's a whole group of members 00:32:53.319 --> 00:32:58.859 that are living in a living that's not here tonight, and they just say what they are actually 00:32:58.859 --> 00:33:04.179 doing is not a church in it, but they're living it out there. 00:33:04.359 --> 00:33:04.859 Yeah. 00:33:04.979 --> 00:33:07.579 They're speaking to it, and they sort of mustn't take that away. 00:33:07.639 --> 00:33:07.979 No, no. 00:33:09.399 --> 00:33:11.379 You need to encourage it more and more. 00:33:11.380 --> 00:33:32.160 That's it. 00:33:32.160 --> 00:33:33.160 Yeah. 00:33:33.160 --> 00:33:37.540 It's good. 00:33:37.540 --> 00:33:38.820 I made a... 00:33:38.820 --> 00:33:39.259 Sorry? 00:33:39.259 --> 00:33:46.259 It's just inspiring that Acts 11 seems to suggest that we can share the possible people 00:33:46.259 --> 00:33:53.460 that are not like us and see great groups because our community is so diverse that finding 00:33:53.460 --> 00:33:54.740 someone like you is quite a funny way. 00:33:55.080 --> 00:33:55.259 Right. 00:33:55.259 --> 00:33:58.340 So this is just really encouraging you to get older than that. 00:33:58.339 --> 00:33:59.119 Yeah, that's good. 00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:00.399 Absolutely. 00:34:01.159 --> 00:34:07.240 I mentioned kind of offhand earlier, you know, talking about if we come in and we're proclaiming 00:34:07.240 --> 00:34:09.119 the gospel just to us, right? 00:34:09.239 --> 00:34:15.599 But this is what we're talking about, Liz, in terms of we need to hear the gospel such 00:34:15.599 --> 00:34:21.000 that it changes us to the point that we go and we want to share and we want to love our 00:34:21.000 --> 00:34:21.840 neighbors in this way. 00:34:21.840 --> 00:34:27.400 We want to be this kind of church that the doors are open and we're inviting people in 00:34:27.400 --> 00:34:34.140 or first to our homes or first to have a coffee or whatever the case may be, right? 00:34:34.640 --> 00:34:37.620 This might not be the first place that they encounter Jesus. 00:34:37.840 --> 00:34:43.340 It might be that they've been to ours and we've had a meal with them and then all of a sudden 00:34:43.340 --> 00:34:46.320 now they're willing to come to church and see that, right? 00:34:46.320 --> 00:34:53.820 And inviting someone to church may not be the first port of call, but into our lives may 00:34:53.820 --> 00:34:55.600 be more a way to start. 00:34:56.900 --> 00:34:57.300 Good. 00:34:58.340 --> 00:35:00.940 We didn't, we just cracked the surface here. 00:35:01.940 --> 00:35:07.960 But this is, so I would say, I think when the leaders were sitting down and we're talking 00:35:07.960 --> 00:35:11.180 about, well, what is, what's important for us to focus on? 00:35:11.179 --> 00:35:16.799 And it was, it was not that we know what we need to do exactly or know what, how to do 00:35:16.799 --> 00:35:19.259 this, that meant that this should be a value of ours. 00:35:19.339 --> 00:35:24.980 It was really a recognition that we don't know and we probably haven't done it well, but 00:35:24.980 --> 00:35:29.659 we need to focus on it and spend some time thinking about, well, who is our community? 00:35:30.179 --> 00:35:32.299 How, how can we reach them with the gospel? 00:35:32.719 --> 00:35:33.919 What are the things that we should do? 00:35:34.379 --> 00:35:39.539 How do we make sure that we're, we're aware of it and caring about it such that we can preach 00:35:39.539 --> 00:35:40.579 the gospel to ourselves? 00:35:41.179 --> 00:35:42.719 So that we'll be able to do it. 00:35:43.239 --> 00:35:46.159 And so that's, that's where the value comes from. 00:35:46.299 --> 00:35:50.359 It's a recognition that we need to, we may not be good at it yet and we may not know how 00:35:50.359 --> 00:35:55.639 to do it yet, but that's a task for us as we go forward as a church. 00:35:57.079 --> 00:35:57.739 So there we go. 00:35:58.419 --> 00:35:59.000 Shall we pray? 00:35:59.960 --> 00:36:00.480 Let's pray. 00:36:00.480 --> 00:36:18.179 Father, we come to you in the, sitting here in what is called West Kilburn, surrounded by 00:36:18.179 --> 00:36:25.340 people from nations and tribes and tongues that span the globe. 00:36:25.340 --> 00:36:37.440 Father, you have in your wisdom, in your sovereignty, brought those people to this place at this time in 00:36:37.440 --> 00:36:38.960 the same way that you've brought us here. 00:36:38.960 --> 00:36:49.380 And Lord, we recognize that in your grace, you use people like us to reach those. 00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:57.139 That just like in Antioch, the Jews didn't know why they landed there other than they were running for their lives. 00:36:57.139 --> 00:36:59.339 And yet God used them mightily. 00:36:59.339 --> 00:37:09.460 And the church in Antioch became one of the greatest sending churches to make a difference in the world for your kingdom. 00:37:09.960 --> 00:37:13.279 That you use that, those people in that place mightily. 00:37:13.280 --> 00:37:23.260 And so Lord, we pray, God, would you open our eyes to see our neighbors, to love them as ourselves, 00:37:23.700 --> 00:37:31.380 and that our love for you would spill over to those who live around us, live next door, 00:37:31.840 --> 00:37:33.880 that we see walking down the street. 00:37:34.200 --> 00:37:35.920 We pray in Jesus' name. 00:37:36.120 --> 00:37:36.360 Amen. 00:37:36.360 --> 00:37:36.460 Amen.