1. Would we be missed? Acts 1.8 & 1 Peter 2.9-10

3. We must be the church that the community would miss if we weren’t here.

5. Acts 1.8 “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you and you will be my witnesses to Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

6. 2 Keys from Acts 1 1.Power comes from the Holy Spirit 2.Witness of Jesus

8. 1 Peter 2.9-10 “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness in to his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.”

10. Take-aways… 1.The church is chosen 2.The church is responsible 3.The church is God’s 4.The church is an agent of proclamation