Remember the Mission -Clint Davison - June 10th

Teachers

Clint Davison Preacher

Richard Sutton Preacher

Jake Collins Teacher

MJ

Mike Jones

BC

Brandon Coleman

JM

John McCarthy

Adam Clark Teacher

KP

Keith Parker

Lesson Summary

Clint Davison opened the class with a striking historical illustration about the Taj Mahal, where Shah Jahan became so consumed with perfecting the construction of a memorial tomb that he eventually ordered the destruction of the very casket it was meant to honor—forgetting the original mission in the details of the project. He then connected this to contemporary concerns raised by Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Peggy Noonan, who observed that American institutions have similarly lost their sense of mission, becoming preoccupied with public perception rather than reality. Davison posed a critical question to the church family preparing to return to in-person gatherings after months of isolation: Do you remember the mission? He presented four key Scripture passages that articulate Jesus's mission and, by extension, the church's mission: Jesus's declaration in Mark 1:38 that He came to preach, His statement in Luke 19:10 that He came to seek and save the lost, Peter and John's bold testimony in Acts 4:19-20 that they could not help but speak of what they had seen and heard, and John's exhortation in 1 John 2:6 to walk as Jesus walked. The teacher emphasized that as the church returned to gathering, there would be temptations to become distracted by peripheral concerns—how worship looks, the logistics of safety measures, and various procedural details. Instead, he called the congregation to remember Jesus's final commission in John 20:21: "As the Father has sent me, I also send you." The mission remains unchanged: to offer God's peace to a dark world and to pursue the ultimate goal of reaching the lost with the gospel of salvation.

Key Scriptures