Northland Church
Engage: Care
A message from Senior Pastor Josh Laxton
Locations & Times
Northland Church
522 Dog Track Rd, Longwood, FL 32750, USA
Saturday 5:00 PM
Sunday 9:00 AM
Sunday 11:00 AM
Welcome to Northland!
Northland Church exists to glorify God as we participate in His mission of redeeming a people from all peoples by engaging neighbors and nations to be fully alive in King Jesus through the power of the Spirit.
NorthlandChurch.net
Northland Church exists to glorify God as we participate in His mission of redeeming a people from all peoples by engaging neighbors and nations to be fully alive in King Jesus through the power of the Spirit.
NorthlandChurch.net
What's Current
BAPTISM OPPORTUNITY COMING SOON!
February 17-18 at all weekend services
If you have never been baptized, this is your chance to take an important step of obedience in Christ! Be sure to invite your friends and family to celebrate with you! Register online by February 5th at NorthlandChurch.net/Baptism.
FAM BLITZ LIVE FAMILY NIGHT!
Friday, February 23 from 6:30 to 8:30 P.M.
The ultimate, high-octane event for kids and families, Fam Blitz Live is sweeping the nation from coast to coast making a positive impact that kids and parents don’t soon forget. Register your family for this free event at NorthlandChurch.net/FamilyNight.
SIGN UP FOR SERVE DAY!
Saturday, March 9
Sign up for a project today. Serve inside and outside the walls of the church!
Sign up online at NorthlandChurch.net/ServeDay.
February 17-18 at all weekend services
If you have never been baptized, this is your chance to take an important step of obedience in Christ! Be sure to invite your friends and family to celebrate with you! Register online by February 5th at NorthlandChurch.net/Baptism.
FAM BLITZ LIVE FAMILY NIGHT!
Friday, February 23 from 6:30 to 8:30 P.M.
The ultimate, high-octane event for kids and families, Fam Blitz Live is sweeping the nation from coast to coast making a positive impact that kids and parents don’t soon forget. Register your family for this free event at NorthlandChurch.net/FamilyNight.
SIGN UP FOR SERVE DAY!
Saturday, March 9
Sign up for a project today. Serve inside and outside the walls of the church!
Sign up online at NorthlandChurch.net/ServeDay.
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Giving fuels the life change we see every day at Northland!
https://pushpay.com/g/northlandchurch1. These activities must be seen as the way God’s people participate in His mission.
2. These activities are not religious in nature but innate, organic, relational, and communal realities of what God’s people do.
3. We are not called to engage in these activities perfectly but should embody a passion to engage in them.
Jesus expects His Church to CARE for God’s people along with the resources He provides in a manner that gives witness to His Kingdom.
Jesus expects His Church to CARE for God’s people and resources in a way that demonstrably shares the good news with the world.
Jesus expects His Church to CARE for God’s people and resources in a way that demonstrably shares the good news with the world.
1. We CARE for creation and its resources by stewarding them for God’s glory and others’ good.
Creation and its resources will be subject to humanity’s fallenness and brokenness.
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Humanity will manifest its fallenness and brokenness
by how it engages with creation and its resources.
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Humanity will manifest its fallenness and brokenness
by how it engages with creation and its resources.
1. We will ABUSE creation and resources for our own pleasure and enjoyment.
2. We will USE creation and resources for our own glory and purpose.
3. We will CONFUSE creation and resources as objects of worship and adoration.
2. We CARE for God’s redeemed people by meeting needs that have been brought about by sin.
Sin unraveled the functionality and flourishing of creation and our bodies.
“The scope of redemption is as great of that as the fall.”
- Albert Wolters
- Albert Wolters
Exodus 22:
- Care for women (v16)
- Care for the foreigners/strangers that come in your midst (v21)
- Care for the widow and orphan (v22)
- Care for the needy (v25)
- Care for women (v16)
- Care for the foreigners/strangers that come in your midst (v21)
- Care for the widow and orphan (v22)
- Care for the needy (v25)
Leviticus 13–15 and 19:
- Care for the sick and diseased among you (Chapters 13–15)
- Feed the poor and the foreigner (19:9–10)
- Treat the deaf and blind with dignity (19:14)
- Treat the poor fairly (19:15)
- Watch out for your neighbor (19:16)
- Care for the sick and diseased among you (Chapters 13–15)
- Feed the poor and the foreigner (19:9–10)
- Treat the deaf and blind with dignity (19:14)
- Treat the poor fairly (19:15)
- Watch out for your neighbor (19:16)
Numbers 35:6–34:
- Create cities of refuge
- Create cities of refuge
Meeting needs as God’s people is not about giving handouts but hand-ups.
3. We CARE for God’s redeemed people by seeing them as our new family in Jesus.
The words “Brothers” and “Sisters” will be used throughout the New Testament to describe the relationship between believers/Christ followers.
- Identify with them (1 Corinthians 12)
- Love them unconditionally (Agape) (John 13:34–35; 17:20–23; 1 Cor 13; 1 John 2:9–10; 3:16; 4:7–12)
- Unite with them in our diversity (Galatians 3:28; Philippians 2:1–5)
- Love them unconditionally (Agape) (John 13:34–35; 17:20–23; 1 Cor 13; 1 John 2:9–10; 3:16; 4:7–12)
- Unite with them in our diversity (Galatians 3:28; Philippians 2:1–5)
4. We CARE for God’s redeemed people by sacrificially giving our time, talents, and treasures for the construction (building up) of Jesus’ body.
- Our Time—by not forsaking the gathering of God’s people (Temple)—Hebrews 10:25
- Our sacrifices of praise and service to God’s people (Temple)—Romans 12; 1 Corinthians 12; 1 Peter 4:10
- A portion of our finances and possessions to God’s people (Temple)—Acts 2:45, 11:29–30, 20:35; 1 Cor 9:14; 2 Cor 8, 9:6; Phil 4:15–16; 1 Tim 5:17
- Our sacrifices of praise and service to God’s people (Temple)—Romans 12; 1 Corinthians 12; 1 Peter 4:10
- A portion of our finances and possessions to God’s people (Temple)—Acts 2:45, 11:29–30, 20:35; 1 Cor 9:14; 2 Cor 8, 9:6; Phil 4:15–16; 1 Tim 5:17
We gravitate to what attracts us.
