The Mission
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The Mission

April 3, 2022

Ed Traverse

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We make our lives count as we make His name known

The credibility of your words comes from how you live

Acts 20:17-19

17 Now from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the church to come to him. 18 And when they came to him, he said to them: “You yourselves know how I lived among you the whole time from the first day that I set foot in Asia, 19 serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials that happened to me through the plots of the Jews;

We all have an opportunity to make our lives count

Acts 20:20-21

20 how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house, 21 testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ

Romans 1:16

16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes

Paul had clarity about the value of his life

Acts 20:22-24

22 And now, behold, I am going to Jerusalem, constrained by[a] the Spirit, not knowing what will happen to me there, 23 except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me. 24 But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.