Tony Campolo

The Church, The Poor, and Social Justice (10:45am)

Tony delivered this sermon at Eugene Christian Fellowship in Eugene, OR on October 18, 2009

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  1. Story—Mother’s Day Sunday as an intern
  2. John 14—when you have seen me, you have seen the father
  3. Story—junior sermon about the ants
  4. Jesus is God taking on human form
  5. Jesus took the punishment for us all
  6. Story—saved almost 2000 years ago
  7. Sins are forgiven and forgotten
  8. Story—Nixon Watergate tape erased
  9. Jesus has erased your tape
  10. We are presented faultless before God
  11. 1 John 1:6
  12. Philippians 3:13-14—still pressing towards the mark
  13. 2000 years ago our sins were forgiven—simultaneous with us now
  14. Einstein’s theory of relativity—time is relative to motion
  15. Traveling at the speed of light—everything is simultaneous
  16. God is simultaneous
  17. Jesus absorbed all sin in his own body on the cross
  18. Story—can’t fake God
  19. You need cleansing
  20. Jesus will cleanse you
  21. Story—Pentecostal experience
  22. Believing is not enough
  23. Holy Spirit needs to come into you
  24. Catholic mystics—different ways to pray
  25. Go where there are no distractions
  26. Story—after pastoral prayer, “I wasn’t talking to you anyways”
  27. Story—Blaise Pascal indwelled with the Holy Spirit
  28. Centering prayer
  29. Holy Spirit comes in every morning
  30. Story—Mother Teresa praying to Jesus
  31. Youth are so unresponsive
  32. Story—unresponsive youth in elevator
  33. Evidence of Holy Spirit is joy—also love
  34. When the Spirit is in you, your heart is broken by the things that break the heart of God
  35. Story—homeless man with especially good coffee who wanted a hug
  36. You will see Jesus in the eyes of others when the Holy Spirit is in you
  37. Story—Zimbabwe, picking up the dead children
  38. Story—three girls in Haiti who got to be kids again

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