2. Disaster response team

3. Spiritual Disaster response team
The church:
Spiritual Disaster response team

4. Life’s greater disasters are spiritual.
Any happening that causes great harm or damage; calamity
The greatest tragedies are the loss of souls.

5. Life’s greater disasters are spiritual.
“Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” (Matthew 10:28)
“For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?” (Matthew 16:26)

6. Life’s greater disasters are spiritual.
What would the rich man say who ended up in torment?
Luke 16:23-24, 27-28

7. Christ our savior is all about search and rescue.
Jesus came to “save His people from their sins” (Matthew 1:21).
Jesus came to call sinners (Matthew 9:12).
The Son of Man came to seek and save the lost (Luke 19:10).
Search was made to find both the sheep and the coin (Luke 15:4, 8).

8. Imitate Christ and become his response team, his rescue squad.
Hebrews 3:12-13
Respond to the disaster sin is causing in the lives of others.
Matthew 18:15-16
James 5:19-20

9. Imitate Christ and become his response team, his rescue squad.
Churches: respond to the spiritual disasters of the weak, of the erring and of the lost.
Galatians 6:1-2
1 Thessalonians 5:14
2 Thessalonians 3:13-15
Jude 22-23