{"id":10035,"date":"2021-10-17T23:04:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T03:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/?p=10035"},"modified":"2021-10-17T23:04:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T03:04:13","slug":"whatsnext","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2021\/10\/whatsnext\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>2021 THEME: Life on the Edge<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>Series: The Servant King<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>TITLE: <\/strong>What\u2019s Next?<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>Scripture: Acts 1:1-11<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>I.\u00a0 \u00a0 THE COMMISSION\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The power behind the early church:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">1.\u00a0 The understood the importance of the (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Incarnation<\/strong><\/span>).<br \/>\n2.\u00a0 There were chosen leaders-(<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>apostles<\/strong><\/span>)-who led the church.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">What were they to do?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">1)\u00a0 They would be spending their time (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>immersing<\/strong><\/span>) themselves in Jesus.<br \/>\n2)\u00a0 They would not be doing it (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>on their own<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<h4><strong>II.\u00a0 \u00a0THE CHALLENGE<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">What promise was given? (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Holy Spirit would be sent<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\nTwo things are important for us to see:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">1.\u00a0 The church is not a (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>symbol<\/strong><\/span>) but a (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>reality<\/strong><\/span>).<br \/>\n2.\u00a0 The church is not a (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>program<\/strong><\/span>) but a (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>power<\/strong><\/span>).<br \/>\n3.\u00a0 The church is not (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>restricted<\/strong><\/span>) but (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>universal<\/strong><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p>Next Week: Series: Attitude Check<\/p>\n<p>The Pivot- I Tim.1:12-15; Dt. 33:25<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 THEME: Life on the Edge Series: The Servant King TITLE: What\u2019s Next? Scripture: Acts 1:1-11 &nbsp; I.\u00a0 \u00a0 THE COMMISSION\u00a0\u00a0 The power behind the early church: 1.\u00a0 The understood the importance of the (Incarnation). 2.\u00a0 There were chosen leaders-(apostles)-who led the church. What were they to do? 1)\u00a0 They would be spending their time &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2021\/10\/whatsnext\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon-notes","nodate","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10036,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10035\/revisions\/10036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}