God chose us to make a difference, but He doesn’t want us to do it alone. This message series will focus on values that will inspire our church in faith, serving, generosity, and evangelism. What we can’t do alone, God empowers us to do together.

Why is your Teacher eating with the tax collectors 

and sinners?” Matthew 9:11

1. Jesus Came for People Who Were Far from God.

“It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” Mark 2:17

“But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:8

Key Thought: The church is not a museum for saints; it is a rescue station for sinners.

2. Tradition Must Never Become More Important Than Mission.

“You nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down.” Mark 7:13 NIV

“I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.” 1 Corinthians 9:22

Key Thought: Traditions can be helpful, but they must never replace the mission of reaching people.

3. Love Requires Us to Leave Comfort Behind

“The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us.” John 1:14

“He made Himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.” Philippians 2:7

Key Thought: Jesus left heaven to reach us. We must be willing to leave comfort to reach others.

4. We Will Do Anything Short of Sin to Reach People.

“Though I am free and belong to no one, I have made myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.” 1 Corinthians 9:19

“I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings.” 1 Corinthians 9:23

Key Thought: We do not change the message, but we are willing to change the method.

5. Love for People Without Christ Must Move Us.

“For Christ’s love compels us…”2 Corinthians 5:14

“We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making His appeal through us.”

2 Corinthians 5:20

Key Thought: The love of Christ should move us beyond ourselves and toward people who need Jesus.

Christ Alive Church Commitment

As a church, we commit to:

• Love people far from God.

• Remove unnecessary barriers.

• Protect the gospel without worshiping methods.

• Welcome the broken, lonely, and outcast.

• Pray, invite, serve, & give so people can meet Jesus.

* All scriptures are from the New American Standard Bible (NASB) unless otherwise noted