Confident Living

II Corinthians 3:1-6

Week 3

Tim Bycroft, Lead Pastor  

THE POINT EXISTS TO WELCOME THE UNCHURCHED TO BECOME FULLY DEVOTED FOLLOWERS OF JESUS. 

Pointing People to God  

Pointing People to Jesus  

Pointing People to Community 

A church characterized by Love, Acceptance, and Forgiveness.

Confidence is knowing you are a child of the King.

Humility is remembering you didn't earn the crown.

Arrogance is thinking you are the King's favorite child.

Self-deprecation is insulting the King's handiwork (you) by not believing in what He has done and is doing in you.

Romans 12:3, “Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you”.

RESIST THE TEMPTATION TO IMPRESS OTHERS

2 Corinthians 3:1(MSG), “Does it sound like we're patting ourselves on the back, insisting on our credentials, asserting our authority? Well, we're not. 

Neither do we need letters of endorsement, either to you or from you.”  

YOU MUST DETERMINE HOW GOD HAS GIFTED YOU AND USE THOSE GIFTS WITH CONFIDENCE,

REJOICE IN THE ENDORSEMENT OF OTHER BELIEVERS.

2 Corinthians 3:2 (msg), You yourselves are all the endorsement we need. Your very lives are a letter that anyone can read by just looking at you.”  

2 Corinthians 3:3, “Christ himself wrote it - not with ink, but with God's living Spirit; not chiseled into stone, but carved into human lives…and we publish it.“ 

RELY ON THE ASSURANCE OF GOD’S PROVISION

2 Corinthians 3:4-5, “We couldn't be more sure of ourselves in this - that you, written by Christ himself for God, are our letter of recommendation.  We wouldn't think of writing this kind of letter about ourselves. Only God can write such a letter.”

STAND FIRM IN THE CERTAINTY OF JESUS CHRIST

2 Corinthians 3:6, “He has made us COMPETENT as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter (law) but of the Spirit; for the letter (law) kills, but the Spirit gives life.”  

The Point Church believes God has entrusted us with a responsibility for every person within a five-mile radius of Winthrop Harbor. We see this community as our God-given mission field, and we are committed to ensuring that every man, woman, and child has repeated, meaningful opportunities to see the Gospel lived, hear the Gospel proclaimed, and respond to the hope of Jesus in their lifetime.

We will be fully engaged in intentional, relational disciple-making, confidently investing in others the way Jesus invested in His disciples.