Big Church Week Five: "Jailhouse Rock"
This week I am preaching the fifth installment of the sermon series, "Big Church" a study in the book of Acts . The basic premise of this sermon series is that Jesus did not establish an institution, he established a movement. Unfortunately, his followers over the years didn't get that memo because the Church in all of her tarnished glory is most definitely an institution. Which is why, in my opinion, that so many people have given up on the Church. But I think there's another way---and I am not alone. There is a growing number of people who are waking up to the fact that Jesus did not create a mission for the Church, he created a church for His mission. The mission, you see, was established long before the Church. And it's high time we figured this out and got down to the business of moving the Movement Jesus founded. This week we will be studying one of the more familiar stories in the book of Acts---the story of Paul & Silas in the Phil...