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The Church the World Needs Now - Episode 1
A Church on Mission, Acts 1:6-11 Sunday Sermon

Acts 1:6-11
6 Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?”

7 He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

9 After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.

10 They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. 11 “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”

OUTLINE:

THE CHURCH’S MISSION IS TO WITNESS ABOUT JESUS
- “It is not for you to know…” (v. 7a)
- “…you will be my witnesses…” (v. 8, Matthew 28:19&20)

THE CHURCH’S MISSION IS EVER EXPANDING
- “…in Jerusalem, in all Judaea, and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth” (v. 8)
- “But you will receive power…” (v. 8)

THE CHURCH’S MISSION IS URGENT
- “…why do you stand looking into heaven?” (v. 11)
- “…Jesus…will come in the same way” (v. 11, I Thessalonians 4:16&17)