Luke 6:12-19

Sermon Notes

Luke 6:12-19

1. The Unlikely Misfits

 Sovereignly Called, Chosen, Commissioned

“Coolness might help in your negotiation with people through the world, maybe, but it is impossible to meet God with sunglasses on.”
Bono

“We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms.”
C. S. Lewis

“The Bible does not show us story after story of “heroes of the faith” who go from strength to strength. Instead we get a series of narratives containing figures who are usually not the people the world would expect to be spiritual paragons and leaders. The Bible is not primarily a series of stories with a moral, though there are plenty of practical lessons. Rather, it is a record of God’s intervening grace in the lives of people who don’t seek it, who don’t deserve it, who continually resist it, and who don’t appreciate it after they have been saved by it.”
Tim Keller

2. The Unlikely Group

“The church itself is not made up of natural ‘friends’…What binds us together is not common education, common race, common income levels, common politics, common nationality, common accents, common jobs, or anything else of that sort. Christians come together not because they form a natural collocation, but because they have all been saved by Jesus Christ and owe him a common allegiance. In this light we are a band of natural enemies who love one another for Jesus’ sake.”
D. A. Carson

“In the essentials, unity—in the non-essentials, liberty—in all things, charity.”
Rupertus Meldinius

3. The Unlikely Mission

“If Jesus’ first command was “Come!”, his second was “Go!”, that is, we are to go back into the world out of which we have come, and go back as Christ’s ambassadors.”
John Stott

“Being disciples of Jesus means serving him as Lord in every sphere of our lives, secular as well as spiritual, public as well as private, in deeds as well as words, and in every moment of our days on earth, always reaching out as he did to those who are lost as well as to the poor, the sick, the hungry, the oppressed, the socially despised, and being faithful stewards of creation and our fellow-creatures.”
An Evangelical Manifesto

4. The Unlikely Savior

“All authentic mission is incarnational mission. We are to be like Christ in his mission. These are the five main ways in which we are to be Christlike: in His Incarnation, in His service, in His love, in His endurance and in His mission.”
John Stott, The Model – Becoming More Like Christ