{"id":8405,"date":"2019-06-30T09:30:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T13:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=8405"},"modified":"2019-07-13T23:51:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T03:51:30","slug":"rethink-the-great-commission","status":"publish","type":"ctc_sermon","link":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/sermons\/rethink-the-great-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Rethink the Great Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-gdm-google-drive-embedder-viewer\"><iframe width='100%' height='100' frameborder='0' scrolling='yes' src='https:\/\/drive.google.com\/a\/scbc.com\/file\/d\/1HObgTsblx4tuCWN8PP97jRj0MKLvLQNa\/preview?usp=drivesdk' allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>This Sunday it is a privilege to welcome Eva Watt, our partner in mission, into the pulpit.&nbsp; Her text is Luke 10:1-12; 17-20.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><br>\nIn verse 2 of that text Jesus says,<br><em>\u201cThe harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.&nbsp; Ask the Lord of\n the harvest therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.\u201d <\/em><br><br>\nI don\u2019 think we have any farmers in our congregation, a few hobby \ngardeners but no farmers.&nbsp; But if you were to live in a farming \ncommunity and play a little game of word association with the local \nfarmers do you know what we would discover? If you were to ask them to \nsay the first word that comes to mind when you say \u201cHarvest\u201d \u2013 you would\n think they would say \u201cWork\u201d or something like that.&nbsp; But that\u2019s not \nwhat they say. The most common word that comes to mind for a farmer when\n you say \u201cHarvest\u201d is the word \u201cReady\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><br>\nThat\u2019s what harvest is \u2013 it is a field of wheat or corn &#8211; that is ready to be brought into the barns.&nbsp;<br><br>\nSo what Jesus is saying here is, \u201cThe ready is plentiful\u201d&nbsp; In other \nwords Jesus is saying to us, \u201cI have all kinds of people who are ready \nfor me.&nbsp; The harvest is plentiful.\u201d<br><br>\nUnfortunately, the harvest is not the problem.&nbsp; The problem is the \nworkers to bring the harvest in.&nbsp; Jesus says, \u201cI don\u2019t have any trouble \ngetting lost people to come to me.&nbsp; I can\u2019t get my people to go and get \nthem!\u201d That\u2019s why he says, <em>\u201cPray to the Lord of the harvest that he will send out workers.\u201d <\/em>(verse 2)<br><br>\nThe Greek word for \u201csend out\u201d means to forcibly expel.&nbsp; It\u2019s a word used\n when referring to casting out demons, of throwing people out of the \ntemple, of throwing cargo overboard.&nbsp; Jesus says, \u201cAsk the Lord of the \nHarvest to forcibly expel people into the harvest.\u201d&nbsp;<br><br>\nThis is our Lord\u2019s passion \u2013 that we would go out into the world and bring in the harvest that he has ready for his kingdom.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><br>\nSo what are we to do?&nbsp; My friends, as a church \u2013 let\u2019s set proper \npriorities.&nbsp; You\u2019ve heard me say many times that the Christianity is the\n only organization that exists for the benefit of its non-members.&nbsp; \nLet\u2019s not forget why we have been called and whom we are called. Our \npriority is not a bigger building, it is not a bigger budget, or a care \nfree life.&nbsp; Our priority is to offer the love of Christ to a starving \nworld. Let\u2019s set our priorities straight.&nbsp;<br><br>\nThen let\u2019s offer ourselves to God in service.&nbsp; Jesus says, \u201c<em>Ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into the harvest.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em> It\u2019s interesting that the very people to whom Jesus speaks these words were the ones who went out into the harvest.<br><br>\nSo, don\u2019t you dare read this and think that this message is for someone \nelse younger or more mature.&nbsp;No! It\u2019s for all of us. As Christ\u2019s body we\n have been given the mandate to go out into the harvest, which the Lord \nof the harvest has prepared.&nbsp;<br><br>\nIn thanksgiving for you,<br><br>\nPastor Tom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke 10:1-12, 17-20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","ctc_sermon_topic":[],"ctc_sermon_book":[150],"ctc_sermon_series":[],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[462],"ctc_sermon_tag":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/8405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ctc_sermon"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/8405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8565,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/8405\/revisions\/8565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_topic?post=8405"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_book?post=8405"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_series?post=8405"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_speaker?post=8405"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scbc.com\/em\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_tag?post=8405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}