Transformation Expressed // Tonderai and Ashley Bassoppo-Moyo

New Song Answers Weekend - Transformation Expressed - Pastors Tonderai and Ashley Bassoppo-Moyo - November 19th & 20th, 2022As those practicing the way of Jesus, we are called to sacrificial mission. This is the outward expression of the inward transformation process at work within us. That the whole world might know, we are on mission to be a city on a hill, the light of the world.
TRANSFORMATION EXPRESSED
 1 - Sacrificial mission is the outward expression of our inward transformation.
 If there is no sacrificial mission, if there is no pouring out, if there is no outward expression of the inward transformation - we live an incomplete picture of the Gospel.
2 - Sacrificial mission requires living from the well. 
Matthew 25:23 (NIV)…”Well done, good and faithful servant…”
 “The extent of our sacrifice coupled with the depth of our joy displays the worth we put on the reward of God.” - John Piper
 
 3 - Sacrificial mission requires your life.
Romans 12:1-2 (NKJV)
“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”
John 12:24 (NIV)“Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.”
 
 A seed has to die in order for it to produce fruit.
 
 Romans 6:5-7 (NKJV)“For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin.”
 
 Romans 15:18 (NLT)“Yet I dare not boast about anything except what Christ has done through me, bringing the Gentiles to God by my message and by the way I worked among them.”
 
 Expressed transformation reveals a life given over to the Lord.

4 - Sacrificial mission expresses Kingship.

“Missions exists because worship doesn't….When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever.” - John Piper

The mission of the Kingdom is to bring others in that they, too, may come to know and express His Kingship in their lives.

Matthew 5:14 (ESV)“You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden.”
 
 We are citizens of a different Kingdom - and a mark of our citizenship is the way we live. 
 John 15:8 (ESV)“By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.”
 
 Fruit bearing is proof of transformation.
 
 We have been entrusted with the Gospel, representing His Kingdom, and reflecting the official position of Heaven.
 
 Matthew 5:16 (NIV)“In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.”
 
 Mark 15:15 (ESV)“And he said to them, ‘Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.’”
 
 Matthew 28:18-19 (NIV)“Then Jesus came to them and said, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and mak