Although this sermon was pointedly focused on those of us who are part of Flatland Church the basic message is still valid for all Christians. Unfortunately, I pretty much lost all my notes that I took Sunday. Fortunately, you can listen to the podcast at flatlandchurch.com Pastor Jeff taught us from Isaiah 54:2-3 [show]Isaiah 54:2-3 [2]"Enlarge the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out; do not hold back; lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes. [3]For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left, and your offspring will possess the nations and will people the desolate cities.
, Gal 4 [show]Galatians 4 I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything, [2]but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father. [3]In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world. [4]But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, [5]to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. [6]And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!" [7]So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God. [8]Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods. [9]But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more? [10]You observe days and months and seasons and years! [11]I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain. [12]Brothers, I entreat you, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong. [13]You know it was because of a bodily ailment that I preached the gospel to you at first, [14]and though my condition was a trial to you, you did not scorn or despise me, but received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus. [15]What then has become of the blessing you felt? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have gouged out your eyes and given them to me. [16]Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth? [17]They make much of you, but for no good purpose. They want to shut you out, that you may make much of them. [18]It is always good to be made much of for a good purpose, and not only when I am present with you, [19]my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you! [20]I wish I could be present with you now and change my tone, for I am perplexed about you. [21]Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law? [22]For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman. [23]But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise. [24]Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar. [25]Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children. [26]But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother. [27]For it is written, "Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear; break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than those of the one who has a husband." [28]Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise. [29]But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now. [30]But what does the Scripture say? "Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not inherit with the son of the free woman." [31]So, brothers, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman. (ESV)
, Act 1:8 [show]Acts 1:8 [8]But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth." (ESV)
 that we need to take on God’s desire to see the lost saved, that we need to be the refreshing water  on the dry land of the world. Here are my extremely abbreviated sermon notes, all that I managed to save.

• God is obsessed with growing His church
• God has no boundaries, He doesn’t limit where He brings salvation
• God is agressive, don’t hold back.
• God cares about the next generation
• God wants both cohesion and adhesion

As I look at those notes, I think they say it all except maybe the cohesion and adhesion part. We have before us a call, a call to to bring refreshing to people in need, seek the lost, to preach the Good News, and to love people no matter where they are or who they may be. We are God’s hands, feet and voice. God has commissioned us to fulfill His work. As Nike says, “Just Do It!”

Let me explain what Pastor Jeff meant by “God wants both cohesion and adhesion.”

• Water has a cohesion factor in which water droplets want and even seek other water droplets that they may be together. We as a church must  seek one another out to help each other, to support each other etc.
• Water has however an even stronger factor called adhesion which causes water to stick to whatever it touches so that it spreads out as well. We as a church also must be “sticky” in the world, that the world may be changed by the message of the cross. In other words, we can’t just stay comfortable with each other but we must also go out and bring refreshment to the world.