Where I'm heading this week

Extreme Makeover: The House That God Built
Date preached: 23-Jul-06, Sebewaing (Foster’s Dedication)
RCL Proper 11 B
Text: Ephesians 2:11-22
Subject: How do we fit into God's plan to bring all things together?
Complement: We are being built, by God into His house!
Exegetical Idea: Jews and Greeks now shared the unity of a new creation.
Homiletic Idea: The church is more than a collecion of people, it is God's house and walls that once separated us from eachother are gone.
Purpose: Hearers will pledge their lives to brining one another closer to God in word, deed and relationship. (Especially Foster)
Type: Deductive, Expository

• The back story: Yesterday We Were Outsiders (11-13)


• What we were


• Mired (1-6)


• Wanderers with out a home (19)


• Didn’t know what God was doing


• People of the Book?


• God is revealing his plan of reconciliation! Are you listening?


• Only Yesterday


• New Christians: Do you remember what the transformation did in you?


• Old Christians: Do you take for granted what God did in you?


• Life is like a vapor


• Eternity awaits. You’ve only spent a day, how will you live tomorrow?


• Demolition day: God Tore Down The Wall (14-18)


• Create for himself one new humanity in place of two


• The insiders


• The outsiders


• What separates us?


• Private lives


• Private hurts


• Private dreams


• What if we really knew each other?


• The reveal: God Built A New House For Himself (19-22)


• Fitted brick by brick


• Your place


• Supporting those around you


• Church is not peripheral (1:23)


• The temple of God: you!


• A temple where God is at home