Gospel Ambition

Romans 15:14-24

About the Sermon

What is your life's ambition? This sermon is the second in our short series, To Magnify the Mercy of God Among the Nations. We are joined by a guest and friend of our church, Matthew Ellision. Mattthew preaches from Romans 15:14–24 concerning the singular ambition of the Apostle Paul, who wrote, "I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on someone else’s foundation" (Ro. 15:20). We want to be a church powered by this kind of ambition for Christ's name among the nations.

About the Series

This is a two-part series in which we focus our attention on God’s global purposes for the nations. Paul writes to the Romans because he wants them to share in his passion for reaching the unreached with the gospel. He wants to be sure that, in preparation for his coming to them and partnering with them, they are a gospel driven congregation. What does that look like? This is true when the spread of the gospel among the nations is our primary ambition as a church. We want to see churches established among those who have limited or no access to the gospel. We want to see those churches led by their own people and replicating without outside help. We will then, like Paul, mangify the mercy of God.
This is a two-part series in which we focus our attention on God’s global purposes for the nations. Paul writes to the Romans because he wants them to share in his passion for reaching the unreached with the gospel. He wants to be sure that, in preparation for his coming to them and partnering with them, they are a gospel driven congregation. What does that look like? This is true when the spread of the gospel among the nations is our primary ambition as a church. We want to see churches established among those who have limited or no access to the gospel. We want to see those churches led by their own people and replicating without outside help. We will then, like Paul, mangify the mercy of God.

Sermons in the Series