1. Acts 1:1-9

2. “I Go To Church”

3. The Church exists to continue the story of transformation that Jesus began

4. They were interested in getting things fixed… Jesus was interested in getting them formed.

5. How does Jesus form the Church?

6. Jesus forms us by having us wait

7. "Waiting is our destiny. As creatures who cannot by themselves bring about what they hope for, we wait in the darkness for a flame we cannot light. We wait in fear for a happy ending we cannot write. We wait for a ‘not yet' that feels like a ‘not ever.' Waiting is the hardest work of our life.” - Lewis Smedes

8. What God does in you as you wait, is just as important as what you're waiting for.

9. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. 30 Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; 31 but those who wait on the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. Isaiah 40

10. Jesus forms us by making us his witnesses

11. To witness is to intentionally model a different way of being in the world