All right, Find the Book of Acts in your New Testament. There's going to be three short passages there as we survey some things that happened to one guy. Before we get there, just some preliminary instructions and exhortations from me. I'm Trevor Davis. I'm GCC's pastor.

You're at the 11:00 service of our gathering today, which means you're special because we did not end the first service with a baptism. But we are going to end this service after our preach today, baptizing a new believer in Christ. It's gonna be very exciting. Who's fired up about that? All right.

Lamb two. So also want to kind of thank you for what you just did. You helped me preach the gospel today when you participated in the Lord's Supper, because when you came to this table, you were testifying, even though you probably didn't say anything, but when you ate that little cracker and drank that juice representing what Jesus called the fruit of the vine, you were saying in public, I'm trusting in Jesus of Nazareth in the next world. For me, he is my Lord and my Savior. And by receiving these elements, I am confessing that.

And so we just had about 200 people today help me preach the gospel. So whether you went through the motions or not, or maybe it was just another one of those Lord's Suppers because we do it twice a month here. Maybe it just didn't mean what it normally means to you. I want you to know that what you did is a big deal because it's evangelistic. You have to excuse me.

I've been fighting this cough and that's not good for a public speaker. But you can pray for me today. Now, I appreciated Pastor Don earlier explaining the giving ladder, and we talked about that. I want to let you know that we only have a few weeks left in 2024, especially church wise, but we still have two special offerings left, and I wanted to tell you what they are and tell you how they're different. Next Sunday we have the One Fund commitment, and we're asking the members of our church to pray about this this week and at the very least bring this filled out for our special One Fund commitment offering next Sunday.

Now, we try to boost that and just kind of give God a little extra. And I had a birthday a few weeks ago, and I don't know about you, but sometimes I get birthday money and I like birthday money because typically I spend it on myself. And so I was thinking about, man, I got this birthday money and I had assigned it to four boxes of ammo. Amen, guys. Testify.

Because it just makes me happy. And so that's what I had assigned it for. I still have it getting ready to do that. And then the Lord says, hey, I just want to remind you, preacher, that the one fund commitment offering is coming up, and I'm going to be getting that birthday money back from you. And I'm like, well, God, I kind of had other ideas and plans for it.

I was hoping to keep that and have the church do it. And what? No, I'm claiming it now. And so then, just like you, I had to fight the inner coveting and greed that's still in this flesh that I have. But now I'm telling you this because I'm saying, look, I've decided it's a joy to take something that I was going to devour on me and hand it back to the hands of the Lord Jesus.

Because the truth is, there's nothing more precious to me and my wife than Jesus Christ. And so when it comes to the giving ladder, I want you to know that before Angie and I ever started this church, we were extravagant givers. We were right here on this ladder. We left tithing behind long ago that would embarrass us. I'm not telling you this to brag.

I'm saying that we just kind of been beyond tithers the whole time here. And the reason I'm telling you that is I have had so many families over the years. Say, you mean you and your wife give offerings, too? Why would you do that? I thought we have church, and the church, out of the offerings, they pay you your salary.

Why would you just give it back? And I go, oh, you got it all wrong. Pastoring is just kind of what I do, and it's how I lead the church. But I'm a regular Christian like you. And what God expects from every believer, he expects from me and my wife.

So we lead out. And for us to get to that surrendered giving mark, we almost have an empty nest. Now. Some of you guys are saying, say hallelujah. I know it's like, if you'll just pray for me, we have one more child.

And would you just pray that God would move in his life and that he would move out someday? Amen. Because that's very important to us. I said that as a joke, and they laughed a lot more at that. Evan, in the first service, they know you're here.

They're being polite. But the idea is, the truth is, Angie and I have three sons and two of Them are kind of off into adult land. And I really miss them. In fact, now I just think about when they were little all the time, and it's sad. Makes me cry.

And I'm looking for a man card again, whatever.

But once we get an empty nest, it's the pathway for us to finally become surrendered givers. Because then we can downsize our house, sell it, and not have a mortgage, and then be able to say, God, here's what you've given us. What is it that you want us to keep? And the rest is all yours. So we actually see light at the end of the tunnel.

One day we get to be the. The surrendered giver, where at the end of our lives, we got nothing left. We've got a legacy, we've got a testimony. But all of our investments in the next world. And so that's the example that we want to set for our church.

And so next week, we got the one fund commitment offering. And then our best offering of the year is going to be on December 15th. It's what we call our gift for Jesus. And here's what our church has been doing probably 15, 16 years now is we've said, hey, if Christmas really is the celebration of the birth of our Lord and our Savior, we want to kind of get a handle on all of the materialism that's in our culture and kind of take back Christmas for our church and say, jesus, you're our top priority. And so the commitment that many of our church members have made for really approaching 20 years now is that Jesus gets the most expensive gift every Christmas on his birthday.

We don't spend more on anybody than we spend on him. And so we received that offering at the end. It's awesome to end the year with the Lord is glorified. And so church, those two are coming up now. You know, if you're a guest, that wasn't even for you.

But hey, we don't even think talking about money is weird because everybody has to do it every day of their life. This Vision series that we started two weeks ago, it prepares our church for the ministry that we're going to have the next year. So it's Vision 2025, and we don't deal in shame and guilt here. And I don't coerce money out of people. And we're not after your money today, but I am talking about generosity for Christians.

And if you're not one of those, that's okay. You can listen in and see how we think about it. But my aim is that you'll leave here going, hey, they talked about money at Great Commission Church today, and they didn't make me feel guilty. And so that's gonna be the trajectory of this message. Now, if you're a guest today, this is part two.

I started this last week, but I can catch you up really quickly. In part one of this message, we learned about the extraordinary impact one generous person can have on a single congregation. We talked about a guy named Barnabas, and that was actually his nickname. His name was Joseph Barnabas. Sold some real estate, cashed it out, liquidated it, and brought it to the leaders of the church and gave it as an offering.

And to say, I love my church so much, the Lord has done so much for me, that the fire that's burning brightly here, I want to put some wood on the fire. So he does that. And that one act of love propelled that growing group of believers forward and into their future. It stoked a fire that was already burning. And we can trace the ripple effect over the next several chapters of Acts.

And that's what I'm going to do today. I'm going to take three of those chapters, take two verses from each of those chapters, and show you the impact the generosity of Barnabas made. It goes over several chapters, which really is almost 12 years of time. So part two of this survey of the ministry of Barnabas shows us. And if you're a note taker, here's what it's going to show us.

Three lasting legacies of real generosity. Three lasting legacies of real generosity. It's what I'm going to give you from Barnabas life, and then we'll be done. So if you're ready, say yes. Legacy number one, generosity builds bridges.

This is in Acts, chapter nine, verses 26 and 27. Generosity builds bridges from Acts, chapter nine, verses 26and 27. And when Saul had come to Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him and did not believe that he was a disciple, but Barnabas. But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles. And Saul declared to them how he had seen the Lord on the road and that the Lord had spoken to him and how Saul had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus.

I'm going to jump off that diving board into the bridges that are built by generosity. When this guy Saul made his way back to Jerusalem, turns out he's in a tough spot. But because the last time he was here, he had a friend group. They were the Bible teachers of Judaism, and he was one of them, card carrying member. He was a Pharisee of Pharisees.

He will write later on. And now when he goes back to Jerusalem, he knows he can't go hang out with those friends because they know he has walked away from and defected from Judaism. So he lost that group of supporters. On the other hand, the Disciples of Jesus, that's the new group that he wanted to join. None of them had forgotten his campaign of terror against them.

And so if you don't know about that campaign of terror, I'm going to illustrate it to you. Now, I want you to imagine this with me. Suppose there was a middle aged man, he's lower middle class in economic status. He has modest means. He's the husband to a very gentle, soft spoken homemaker wife.

He's also the father of two trusting, obedient children who look up to him. One day, out of the blue, without any warning, one day an angry religious leader, like a charging bull, bursts into this man's home with a warrant for his arrest. And what was the charge? The charge against him? You're a believing member of that new religious cult that claims to have a crucified and risen savior.

And this man, he's whisked away to prison. And now the family has lost its only source of income. They've lost all their protection in the world. And if it weren't for the care and concern of that new group, that new faith family, they would have certainly lost all their possessions and likely they would have starved to death.

Got that picture in your head? Now I want you to imagine that same tyrant. He goes to the next house across the street to arrest the elderly couple who live in that house. They also belong to this new group called the Way. And off to prison they go.

Their earthly possessions, their home and what's left of their food and their furnishings, they're immediately absorbed by the Jewish Sanhedrin, those Bible teachers we talked about. Well, Pastor, how does this terrible story end? We've got this husband in prison. We got this elderly husband and his wife in prison. Where's this story going?

Well, eventually, by the grace of God, the husband of the young family is released from jail and he's returned to his wife and children. He was luckier than his older brother named Stephen, who was stoned to death for these very charges a few weeks before this happened. But that elderly couple, they were already frail. Their bodies were tired and they don't make it. They die in prison.

Well, Pastor, that's a terrible story. I know, and I didn't make it up. Now, I want you to try to visualize the scene a few years later when that same tyrant shows back up in Jerusalem and he makes a request to join the same band of believers he had treated so cruelly years before. Because this man is Saul of Tarsus. You know him as the Apostle Paul.

In fact, we learned about the grace of God and how Jesus did everything for us. And in fact, we know about the doctrine of what's called propitiation because of this same man, the Apostle Paul. That doctrine says that God was very angry with sinners. In fact, the Bible says he's angry with the wicked every day. And because God was angry with the wicked every day, they became objects of his holy wrath, and they were standing within the crosshairs of the wrath of God.

But Jesus came and stood in the place of those same sinners and died the violent death. They deserve to die in their place so that the anger and wrath of God could be appeased. We learned that doctrine from this man named Saul. He became Paul. And you can read his New Testament letters.

And when you read his New Testament letters, you're going to see Galatians 1:13. For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it. You see, there was something. Even though Paul knew he was forgiven, he also couldn't forget his past. And even though he championed the grace of God, it was always with him.

So he would read and he would say, I don't want you to be overly impressed with me. I persecuted the church. In his own testimony in Acts, chapter 22, verse 4, he says, I persecuted this way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons, both men and women. And then, then he turns it around. He says, but there is some good news.

First, Timothy 1:15. This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. Saul of Tarsus never got over, never forgot the fact that he stood opposed to the church of the living God, that he wanted the bride of Christ to be tamped down and have no more influence and to go away. And when Jesus Christ made this same tyrant a believer and changed his heart, he says to you, I may not know where you've been. I may not know where you've come from, and I may not know all your secrets, and they may be bad, but you can only make it up to the number two spot for sinners, because I'm the chief of sinners because of what I did to the church.

And if Jesus will have grace on me, guess what? That same grace is available to you, too. So he never gets over it, but he's ostracized from this very group that he wants to join. So I have some questions for you. What kind of person could bring these two parties together?

What kind of character could vouch for this former villain and cause everyone who knew him to change their attitude about him? Who could do this? Who could calm their fears and ease their minds? Who had that kind of credibility? And how does a person get credibility like that?

I submit to you only one man, the same guy who so generously funded their ministry in the earliest days. He's the only one that could have done this in that day and time. His name, Barnabas. That's his nickname. It means the son of encouragement.

His first name was Joseph. But because he had a different kind of character given to him by Jesus Christ, all the people around him says no. From now on, because you encourage us with the way you live your life, you're going to be Barnabas. The son of encouragement. He became Saul's sponsor.

And from what we learned about Barnabas so far, it's completely in character for him to welcome a person the rest of the church might be slow to forgive. Because I remind you, Saul had been a bona fide terrorist to them. He came alongside Paul Saul, and he built a bridge of trust between him and this fellowship of believers that Saul had once sought to exterminate, to rid the earth of. So Barnabas, by the power of God, confidently relayed that Saul's turnaround was real. May I just take a moment and say to you that you likely need the same thing in your life.

You need a believer in Jesus Christ who can vouch for the turnaround and transformation that Jesus has made for you, from your old life of sin and darkness to your new life that's been translated into the kingdom of light and in the sun that he loves. Who can do that for you? Who can say, I have so witnessed the change that Jesus brought in her.

I have so seen the transformation that God did in him. Who's your Barnabas?

He was able to rehabilitate Saul in the minds of all these church leaders. And I want to say to you, he built a critical bridge for the early Christians and my brothers and my sisters. It was his reputation built on caring generosity that made all the difference. And I want you to know that your church will always have these gaps that need to be bridged by the generosity of its members. So Barnabas is our best example today.

Number one, generosity builds bridges. That's the first legacy. Well, after these things, after Acts chapter 9, the church in Jerusalem that was once so large and so bustling with activity kind of came back down to the median average and came back down to reality. And then hard times emerged and the funds ran out. And the whole nation, not just the church, was suffering under famine.

And suddenly the mother church was like a child, depending on the charity of the believers in other places, just to survive. This would be just like us, a congregation of 400 people meeting in two services on Sunday with strong ministries all around. All of a sudden, one day, two thirds of the folks said, I'm not coming back. There's been a split, there's been a disagreement. It wasn't reconciled, right?

And we went into emergency mode and we looked up and the one third of our fellowship left. As generous as they are. It's a math problem. And we just can't pay the bills anymore. We can't keep the lights on, we can't pay the note.

It's going to default and we're going to look up and go, are we even going to have a church? Imagine if we got there and that baby that we're birthing next year, that brand new church plant in the Bahalia area. And if you're new, we're starting a new church over in the Bahalia, Mississippi corridor. We got a church planter, he has a wife, they've got four children. We sent 30 of our best people out with them, and they're going to start a brand new work in a place that desperately needs it.

It would be like that little congregation saying, we got to save our mother church, we got to scrape, we've got to be generous and we've got to send them an offering back so that they can survive. That's where we are as we come to legacy number two. Because not only does generosity build bridges, generosity cultivates confidence. And we read about this in Acts chapter 11, verses 29 and 30.

Then the disciples, each according to his ability, wherever they were on the giving ladder, determined to send relief to their brethren dwelling in Judea. Judea is like the county area around the city of Jerusalem. This they also did and sent it to the elders. And this is incredible to me. By the hands of Barnabas and Saul, this guy Saul shows up again with Barnabas again.

And this time, not only has he been welcomed into the church, he's gone on to another congregation. You're going to find out that he's A leader in that congregation with Barnabas. And now that church trusts him with some money to take back as relief in an emergency situation. Where did that kind of trust come from? Well, generosity cultivates confidence.

Someone has said that the real mark of a saint is that he makes it easier to believe in Christ. And that's what Barnabas did. He just made it easier to believe not only that Jesus is Lord, but whatever was the will of God for whatever church he was in. This is what Barnabas did. Made it easy for everybody to see it and to trust.

So by Acts chapter 11, Saul and Barnabas. Kid you not. They're teachers in the church. Not in Jerusalem. In Antioch, they'd been forced to leave Jerusalem because there was severe persecution.

And now because they went there and God used their gifting, Antioch is the strongest church in all the world. And I want you to imagine this with me. The Jerusalem church was not only the first ever local church in world history, it's the first ever megachurch. There's a scientific definition for megachurch, and that is a church that has 2,000 members or more. The church in Jerusalem started with 120 very timid, afraid believers in an upper room in Acts chapter one, and in Acts chapter two, after one sermon, 3,000 people believed in the Gospel and were baptized.

So now there are 3120. They're an instantaneous megachurch in Acts chapter two. And yet we get to Acts chapter 11. It's fewer than 12 years later, and this Jerusalem church that was so big is down to a handful of members. They're scattered abroad by persecution, and the members who were left were starving to death.

And they were barely a remnant. And they made no difference in their community. But the church in Antioch, the strongest one, knew that they could trust Barnabas to send a financial gift to this church. They could put it in his hands and they could reach the suffering saints in Judea. And they could trust him because of his previous fidelity and his current kindness.

Let me say it this way. He was known to be generous, therefore he could be trusted. Generosity cultivates kindness. And Barnabas says, well, if you need somebody to send that offering to, you can trust me and my traveling companion Paul with it.

Their confidence in Barnabas was absolute and it was unfiltered. But I have some questions for you. I'm going to get a little political with you after this week. Is that okay? Couldn't hear you.

Yes or no? All right, got some questions. Why did this Antioch church receive a collection for the suffering small number of believers in Jerusalem? Did they have a brand to build? Were they trying to get likes and followers?

Was it to prove they were benevolent people? Were they just showing off their philanthropy? I mean, there were only a handful of Christians that remained in Jerusalem. The rest had fled because of persecution and famine. Honestly, what difference could their meager offering really make?

I mean, come on, preacher. How could their generosity make Jerusalem a better place to live if it only helped a few impoverished religious outcasts? Well, that's the wrong question. I want to give you a reminder.

The gospel of Jesus Christ is not a social gospel. It's not to make the world a better place. That's not even the mission of the church.

People talk to me asking about climate change all the time. I'm for it. What do you mean? Do you know that the apostle Peter said in one of his letters that one day, when the end comes and God is God, puts the final period on the final sentence of the last paragraph of history, that God's going to melt all the elements with fervent heat. Do you know that he destroyed the earth and their wickedness the first time by water.

Remember Noah and the ark? Yeah, but the second time it's going to be by fire. If he melts all the elements with a fervent heat, can we agree that's climate change? And will that change the climate? It will.

The idea goes something like, this Christian church, you'll be acceptable to us if you'll just do a social version of your gospel and try to make everybody feel better and preserve the world and make the world a better place. I want to tell you something. The gospel doesn't purify the world. It purifies Christ's bride, the church. We don't send our resources across the street and around the world in the name of making disciples and missions in order to make the world a better place.

If you do that, you just make the world a better place to go to hell from. You have to preach the gospel, get sinners saved. Instead. We don't send our resources across the street and around the world, even to help the poorest who suffer most severely. And I want you to know, when the sun rose in the eastern hemisphere today on the continent of Africa, in the continent of Europe, on the continent of South America, in Central America and in North America, this church has sent its financial resources to every one of those places, Feeding hungry bellies, clothing naked bodies, educating ignorant people that will never be able to go to school and teaching them about Jesus.

We do it every day. But it's not to make this world a better place. It's to populate the next world and get people to go to heaven when they die. I think going to heaven when you die is a good thing. What do you think?

Our mandate is to preach the gospel to the nations. I've told you before that I think the scariest verse in the Bible is Matthew 24:13. But what I always fail to tell you for dramatic effect is that Matthew 24:13, the scariest verse in the Bible, is immediately followed by one of the most hopeful. I'm going to give those to you now. Matthew 24:13.

But he who endures to the end shall be saved. Listen to me. You will not walk with Christ. You will not make it to the end. Just like the Israelites, you'll want to go back to Egypt if you try to do this faith journey all by yourself.

If you don't have a local church to love you, to spur you on, to love and good deeds, to watch your life when you fall away, to go and get you and say, look, we're gonna stay on the narrow road. We're not gonna fall into the ditch on the left side. We're not gonna jump into the ditch on the right side. We're gonna endure to the end. Well, Pastor, do you believe in eternal security?

I sure do. I believe that when he saves you, you'll always be saved. But just because you say you are, that doesn't mean you are. And the local church that you belong to will have evidence and there will be fruit in your life that says, that's a person living by faith and trusting in Jesus. Only the ones who persevere to the end will be saved.

That's the scary verse to me. And it's followed by the comforting verse. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations. And then the end will come. What's hopeful about that?

What's hopeful about that is God hasn't lost control of planet Earth and the end will come. And he's going to end it after all the people groups have heard about Jesus. So we keep preaching the gospel, we keep sending missionaries, and when the last group hears it for the first time, it's all over. And then the end will come. And I'm encouraged by that.

Because you know what happens at the end? I get to see him face to face. I get to look into the eyes of the one who bought me, the one who died for me, the one who said, even though you weren't seeking me. I came and got you. I get to see Jesus face to face and it keeps me going.

What about you?

Because generosity cultivates confidence. And that's what Barnabas did for the church in Acts, chapter 11. Lastly, today, generosity shapes destiny. Do you realize that Barnabas was just an island guy like Jimmy Buffett in the New Testament? He just lived in Cyprus and lived at the beach and for some reason he went to Jerusalem.

And then he gets saved and he looks and he sees the work that Christ is doing in this first church and he's like, look at my lot in life. I've got all this beachfront property and, and if I sell it, I can get a lot of money and I can give that to the work of the ministry. And that's all that dude did. He went to church one day and brought an offering and he never thought a second thing of it. And watch what God did for his destiny.

Acts, chapter 13, verses 2 and 3 in verse 1 that I'm not going to read to you, there's six or seven names of church leaders in that same church in Antioch. And we read in verse two, as they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, now separate to me, Barnabas and Saul for the work which I have called them. Then having fasted and prayed and laid hands on them, the church in Antioch sent them away. The Holy Spirit In Acts chapter 13, verses 2 and 3 says, look, church in Antioch, strongest church on earth. You got all these great leaders, you're drawing crowds because you got people that are, that can preach in your church and they can take the Bible, they can open the scroll, they can tell you what it means.

They're having an impact and they're having to do multiple services, man. Paul will preach at the first one and Barnabas at the second one and Manaen and the other guys. And you have an embarrassment of riches and leadership. And God says, you know your two strongest preachers, you know the two best leaders that you have. I'm gonna take them away from your church and you're gonna be glad that I did.

You're gonna be generous. You're not gonna try to hold onto them. You're not gonna say, well, look, Paul preaches every Sunday morning at 9:00 and that's when I go and I gotta have my preacher and I'm gonna take your two best and I'm gonna send them on a missionary journey and your church is gonna do even better without them because you're gonna learn that generosity Always pays off. Saul and Barnabas get this assignment. The Lord instructed Antioch Church to give away their two best and brightest preachers.

And I want you to write this down in your notes for you note takers. There is nothing too valuable to give to God. When he looked up and he said, I need a missionary team, he says, the church in Antioch has all these leaders. He doesn't go, you know what? Let me go take their most junior leaders.

Let me go take their preachers in training. They'll never miss them. No. God says, let me go take the two that they think they'll miss the most because they're not trusting in me. They're trusting in the talents of their leaders.

I'm gonna take those two away and I'm gonna show them that this really is Jesus Church. It's not Brother so and so or Brother so and so's church. Does that make sense? So God asked for their best. God took away their two most eminent and gifted leaders to start new works.

And the church in Antioch thrived even more in. And I want to go. I want to say to you about Barnabas destiny. He goes from humble, generous church member who quietly encouraged others. That's how he started.

And now he's this mighty foreign missionary. He's a church planter and he's the sponsor to the greatest missionary and apostle the world has ever known. He never thought in a million years if I just sell that little field and give the money to the church that God would do that in my life. That's why Ephesians 3:20 says that he's able to do more than we ask or think.

By the way, Saul and Barnabas are the only two men designated in the New Testament as apostle, as prophet and teacher, all three of those offices. And let me bring it down to your chair today and say this. Some of your effectiveness in living out the gospel rises and falls. And whether you will participate in the sending of missionaries and preachers to the nations. And the best way, and really the only way you can do that right now is giving financially in your local church to make it possible.

And I want to say to you also that God demands our first and our best. And when we give it, he prospers us even more. I'm going to ask you a yes or no question, three of them in a row. And you tell me, do you have a generous God? Yes or no?

Great Commission Church. Do you belong to a generous church? Yes or no?

Don't answer this one out loud. Answer this one in your heart. If you Have a generous God and you belong to a generous church. Are you the only one exempted from being generous here? Because Barnabas is setting the example for us.

Like Barnabas, generosity proves our faith. And I wonder what extraordinary path, what destiny is waiting on you for when you're finally generous to the Lord?

Barnabas is our example. Let's follow his lead. Now at our church, at the end of our services, we will pray for anyone and everyone. We have prayer teams ready. And this is very important to us.

This is as important to us as the singing, the preaching, the offerings, everything is that we come for prayer. So I'm gonna give you three application points from the message I just gave you as three things our prayer team can offer as prayers for you today. And that'll be a way you can apply this message to your life. I'm gonna give those to you. We're gonna baptize a new believer and then we'll adjourn our service today.

And then you can come for prayer. Here are three ways you can be prayed for to apply this message to your life. Number one, I want my generosity to help others meet Christ and reconcile broken relationships. That's building the bridges. Number two, I want my generosity to be so evident that my local church knows they can count on me.

That's confidence. Number three, I want my generosity to open every door God has for me. That is destiny. Let's bow for prayer today. Father, thank you.

For brothers and sisters in the Bible like Barnabas that show us that regular people can do great things for God. When we trust you in Jesus name.

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Come and join us this Sunday at the Great Commission Church for a truly remarkable and uplifting experience. Great Commission Church is not just any ordinary place of worship; it's a vibrant community where faith comes alive, hearts are filled with love, and lives are transformed. Our doors are wide open, ready to welcome you into the warm embrace of our congregation, where you'll discover the true essence of fellowship and spirituality. At Great Commission Church, we are more than just a congregation; we are a family united by a common mission – to follow the teachings of Christ and spread His love to the world. As you step inside Great Commission Church, you'll find a sanctuary that nurtures your faith and encourages you to be part of something greater than yourself.

We believe in the power of coming together as a community to worship, learn, and serve. Whether you're a long-time believer or just starting your spiritual journey, Great Commission Church welcomes people from all walks of life. Our vibrant services are filled with inspiring messages, beautiful music, and heartfelt prayers that will uplift your soul. Every Sunday at Great Commission Church is an opportunity to deepen your relationship with God and connect with others who share your faith and values.

At Great Commission Church, we believe that faith is not just a solitary endeavor but a shared experience that strengthens and enriches us all. Our church is a place where you can find purpose, belonging, and the encouragement to live a life in accordance with Christ's teachings. Join us this Sunday at Great Commission Church and experience the transformative power of faith in action. Be part of a loving and supportive community that is committed to making a positive impact in our world. Together, we strive to fulfill the great commission to go forth and make disciples of all nations. We look forward to having you with us at Great Commission Church this Sunday, where faith, love, and community intersect in a truly amazing way.

Great Commission Church is a non-denominational Christian church located in Olive Branch, Mississippi. We are a short drive from Germantown, Southaven, Collierville, Horn Lake, Memphis, Fairhaven, Mineral Wells, Pleasant Hill, Handy Corner, Lewisburg and Baylia.

See you Sunday at Great Commission Church!