1. Remember The Mission

4. God don’t make no mistakes
That’s how he got to be God!
--Archie Bunker

5. You’re a meathead
Dead from the neck up
--Archie Bunker

6. Conclusion:
We live in a changing world

7. Deuteronomy 4:1–8

8. Now, Israel, hear the decrees and laws I am about to teach you
Now, Israel, hear the decrees and laws I am about to teach you. Follow them so that you may live and may go in and take possession of the land the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you.

9. 2 Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of the Lord your God that I give you.

10. 3 You saw with your own eyes what the Lord did at Baal Peor
3 You saw with your own eyes what the Lord did at Baal Peor. The Lord your God destroyed from among you everyone who followed the Baal of Peor, 4 but all of you who held fast to the Lord your God are still alive today.

11. 5 See, I have taught you decrees and laws as the Lord my God commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land you are entering to take possession of it.

12. 6 Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding to the nations, who will hear about all these decrees and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”

13. 7 What other nation is so great as to have their gods near them the way the Lord our God is near us whenever we pray to him?

14. 8 And what other nation is so great as to have such righteous decrees and laws as this body of laws I am setting before you today?

15. Now Israel…

16. Be careful… Do not mess it up Example: Baal Peor

17. The world will notice Wisdom and understanding based on your laws

18. Contains the Code of Hammurabi
The Stele of
Hammurabi
Contains the Code of Hammurabi
400 Years
before Moses

19. QUIZ: What is Trinity’s mission statement?

20. We are a family from a variety of cultures and backgrounds…

21. We are a family from a variety of cultures and backgrounds seeking to grow in our relationship with Christ, empowered to…

22. We are a family from a variety of cultures and backgrounds seeking to grow in our relationship with Christ, empowered to love and serve our neighborhood and world in the name of Jesus.

23. When you are up to your neck in Alligators it is hard to remember …

24. When you are up to your neck in Alligators it is hard to remember …
your primary objective was to drain the swamp

25. What alligators does Trinity face. 1) Tradition
What alligators does Trinity face? 1) Tradition -- “But we have never done it that way before”

26. What alligators does Trinity face. 2) Us four and no more
What alligators does Trinity face? 2) Us four and no more! -- “I want the church to grow, but not too much”

27. What alligators does Trinity face. 3) Someone else’s job
What alligators does Trinity face? 3) Someone else’s job -- “Isn’t that what we hire a pastor to do”

28. What alligators does Trinity face. 4) Good trivial work
What alligators does Trinity face? 4) Good trivial work -- “I am too busy to be involved in the mission”

29. Jesus: Focus on the mission

30. Therefore, … let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us Hebrews 12: 1-2

31. Remember the mission!