Work and Faith - Tony Nguyen

Passage: Acts 18:1-4, 24-28 Notes: Intro: 1. We know that work is not a negative thing, because our God worked. We know that work is not just a means to an end, but rather it’s God’s way of caring, loving and serving the world through our work. 2. However, sometimes when we think of work being spiritual, we only think of positions like pastors, and teachers and missionaries. We don’t think that our daily, ordinary work life has any big spiritual impact. Today I want to share with you that some of the greatest movement that God did in the early church was by simple ordinary individuals doing simple ordinary things 3. Today I want to share with you in this passage how ordinary people who lived lives of ordinary faithfulness, were used by God to do extraordinary things. 4. We will see how they chose to… a. Live with Missional Intention b. Work on Ordinary Practices c. Achieve Extraordinary Outcomes I. Live with Missional Intention vs 1-4 a. Paul, Aquila, and Priscilla—no matter where they go, they lived with missional intention. b. Mission is living with intention. There’s a purposeful way which you orient your life. c. Are you living with a missional intention for God’s Kingdom? II. Work on Ordinary Practices vs 24-26 a. Community i. Knowing who they are in Christ, they sought to create community with all people, despite differences. b. Hospitality i. Opening up their homes to Paul and Apollos ii. Aquila and Priscilla reminds us that the smallest unassuming faithful task of hospitality can advance the kingdom movement of God in ways we cannot imagine. III. Achieving Extraordinary Outcomes vs 27-28 a. Gospel piece for Apollos i. Ended up arguing eloquently for Jesus being the Messiah in Achaia.