Today at 6pm (NZ Time) we are hosting ‘Church Online’ as a facebook live video event via our Wellington City Corps and Wellington Citadel Band pages. (Link below also).
Our weekly Sunday meetings feature both the Wellington Citadel Band and the Wellington City Worship Team.
This week we commence a new sermon series looking at the book of Malachi which is the last book of the Old Testament. It would appear from a cursory scan of the book that the Israelite people are being rebuked for their lax religious and social behaviour.
Yet this is only part of the overall emphasis – as it shows God calling His people back to what they were supposed to be all about. Every one of us as God’s chosen people are called by Him to be an influence on the world around us.
Jesus began teaching this exact same concept in his earthly ministry when he told his disciples that he would make them fishers of men. As God’s chosen people, they possessed the Word of God, and were to be the salt and light in the world.
Therefore, as we look at the many lessons that we can learn from the book of Malachi: I hope and pray that we will take on board the many aspects of our faith that God would have us adopt so that we can endeavour to live God-honouring lives in our day and age.
Especially if we are to be examples of what it means to live out our Christian lives in such a way that people will be drawn to the ‘life and hope’ that we espouse as we reach out into our local communities and beyond. For God is calling us back to what He intended for us and our lives – To get back to where we once belonged!
Messages from this series have been adapted from Mark Driscoll’s sermon series that he presented to Mars Hill Church in late 2013 / early 2014.
May God bless you each as you head into the coming week 🙂
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