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What’s our mission, vision, purpose?- MVP

What’s our mission, vision, purpose?- MVP. EDWMF Evangelism Worship Discipleship Missions Fellowship. Joseph in prison Gen 39b-40. Pastor Shane L. Johnson, D.Min. 7/25/10 New Life Church. What we’ve learned about Joseph so far.

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What’s our mission, vision, purpose?- MVP

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  1. What’s our mission, vision, purpose?- MVP • EDWMF • Evangelism • Worship • Discipleship • Missions • Fellowship

  2. Joseph in prisonGen 39b-40 Pastor Shane L. Johnson, D.Min. 7/25/10 New Life Church

  3. What we’ve learned about Joseph so far • Joseph will know great pain and suffering in his lifetime- Do you have a theology of suffering?- In other words, how do you explain it?- CS Lewis; pain is God’s megaphone to a deaf world • God will use this suffering to make of Joseph much more than the man he would ever be otherwise • God will use Joseph to be a pivotal person for millions of people • Joseph will only know some of this later on, and never all of it • He prospered because of the presence of the Lord in his life • He called sin for what it was, and he put up healthy boundaries • The 2 biblical responses to sin- resistance (James 4.7) and escape

  4. 1- Joseph prospered in negative circumstances, 39.20-23 • Why? The Lord was with him…v21 • We have westernized the environment needed for success- “in order for me to be successful, I need to have, or be in…” look at v23 • Most would not say one can prosper in prison; the exceptions- Chuck Colson, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Nelson Mandela, Martin King, John Bunyan • God’s view of prosperity and ours are different • People with a right attitude will find a way to succeed even under adverse circumstances • The presence of Christ and a right attitude go a long way toward biblical prosperity • Location has little to do with biblical success

  5. 2- Joseph endured, and still succeeded, ch 40 • He sees God as the source of interpretation for dreams rather than an Egyptian seer, v8 • Mind you, Joseph has no idea when he will be released from prison, there for something he did not do- he could either be enraged by the injustice, or he could change his mindset- you may not be able to change your externals, but you can change your internals- notice that he did not deny his reality, v14-15 • The cupbearer forgot Joseph, who would languish in prison 2 more years, 41.1 • When people are removed from painful situations they sometimes remove themselves from the people who were with them in those situations- don’t expect gratitude, so you’ll be pleasantly surprise when it happens • You have very little control over what happens to you in life; the only thing you can control is your reaction to it

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