Outward Looking: Our Core Values Series | Lord’s Day Sermon | 2nd February, 2025 | Ezekiel Adetunji

God has saved us for a purpose. A purpose that transcends what benefits we enjoy from the salvation we have received. A purpose that looks not on ourselves but to the realization that we were saved to serve others.

In Ephesians, Paul writes:

"For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them."

We've been saved to become a city on a hill, a light that cannot be hidden, a lamp that shines the light in the darkness for all to see the light of God's mercies. Christ saved us and gave us the ministry of reconciliation. For as long as every believer remains on the face of the earth, their lives are to be expended in an ambassadorial capacity; steering the hearts of the lost towards to salvation that the gospel alone brings.

We are the salt of the earth, here to give sense and reason to the earth. But as the scriptures tell, we must be careful not to lose our saltiness as that nullifies our witness.

Every Christian must be outward looking. Every church must be outward looking, putting itself in the frontline of the battle for the souls of men. Listen and learn what God requires of you as a part of his church.