Authentic Mission: A Civilization Reborn

Romans 15:14-22 (NIV)14) I myself am convinced, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with knowledge and competent to instruct one another. 15) Yet I have written you quite boldly on some points to remind you of them again, because of the grace God gave me 16) to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles. He gave me the priestly duty of proclaiming the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. 17) Therefore I glory in Christ Jesus in my service to God. 18) I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obey God by what I have said and done— 19) by the power of signs and wonders, through the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ. 20) It has always been my ambition to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation. 21) Rather, as it is written: “Those who were not told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand.” 22) This is why I have often been hindered from coming to you. TAKEAWAYSTo be on mission with Jesus is….1. To know Jesus first—The story of His grace is your story (v15-16,18)2. To make him known—with a demonstration of His power (v19-20)3. To seek His glory— and never give up (v17, 22)