Saying Goodbye

“Every Christian is either a missionary or an impostor.” Charles Spurgeon

The book of Acts is a narrative to show God’s vision for worldwide gospel expansion through the building of the Church. It’s an explanation by examples of the Spiritual reality we often cannot see occurring on top of the visible reality we can see. Most of the book is written to explain how the gospel got to unbelievers. But this passage in Acts 20 is given to an entirely Christian audience. It’s Paul’s handoff of ministry responsibility to the Ephesian elders before he departs for Jerusalem. And though he speaks to leaders here, I think it speaks to all of us because we’re all to be involved in ministry at some level. It shows us that God gave Paul a message and a mission that created a ministry for believers equipped by the Church. Sunday we will follow Paul out of Ephesus and listen to his Goodbye as he begins the end of his journey of faithful Missions. See you Sunday!

Pastor Mike

“The test of a sermon is not what we heard but what we do!”