Wind + Fire: Paul The Apostle: The Sent One

Wind + Fire: Paul The Apostle: The Sent One

Speaker: Pastor Lee Cummings
Date: August 21, 2022

We must carry on the ministry and mission of Jesus through His Church. In Wind + Fire: The Extraordinary Outpouring of the Holy Spirit and Uprising of the Church in the Book of Acts, discover how to return to the pattern of Acts and position ourselves for when Jesus returns.

In this weekend sermon from Pastor Lee, we look at the background and calling of the single most influential person in the New Testament, outside of Jesus.

Sermon Highlights

• Scripture: Acts 26:1-18

• God’s heartbeat for the life of young people is the very same as the dawn of creation

• Paul’s manner of life was shaped early in life

• Your patterns, perspectives, and passions form your manner of life

• Paul’s parents helped establish footings and foundations in his life that would ultimately prepare him to encounter and serve God

• Teach by example

• Prioritize environments that shape faith

• Raising “free range” kids trains them to be “deranged” adults

• Sending is an intentional act of directing your children in the way they should go

• Proverbs 22:6 (ESV)
  “Train up a child in the way he should go;
  even when he is old he will not depart from it.”

• The direction that we aim our children will become the aim of our children

• The intentional modeling of Paul’s parents prepared his life to meet Jesus personally, and there, find his salvation and calling