The church is not a pleasure boat for entertaining church members but a lifeboat for saving sinners. This sermon reminds us of God’s heart for us to be an outward-orientated people who live beyond ourselves.
So often we allow earth-bound, naturalistic thinking to inform how we live our lives; this sermon reminds us that to live effectively on this earth we must have the perspective of eternity.
God doesn’t want us to be just “Sunday Christians” but to integrate our faith in Christ into every sphere of life. Over and against the so-called sacred-secular divide, this sermon reminds us that true Christianity is a worldview that should inform every area of our existence.
The apostle Peter walked in such a zone of glory that even his shadow became a powerful instrument of healing. Every Spirit-filled Christian has the potential to cast a far-reaching spiritual shadow too.
On this his first official Sunday as Senior Leader, Pastor Dominic exhorts us to be so filled with God that His presence overflows from us and we cast a healing shadow over every person and environment that we come into contact with.
On the occasion of the induction of our new senior leaders Dominic & Catherine De Souza, this is a message from John Glass, General Superintendent of Elim. The night also marked the official transition of the church into the Elim network.