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MOVE | Week 1 | Bill Bush · Rewind

Rock Point Church

81 min

Pastor Bill Bush · Mar 6, 2022 · 4 min read · 81 min listen

The big idea

Faith moves: because Christ already moved toward us in love, genuine faith now moves us toward Christ, into community, and out on mission.

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The big idea
Point 1 of 5Faith doesn't earn God's love, it responds to it — and it moves
Point 2 of 5We move toward Christ by knowing Him personally

Point 3 of 5We move into biblical community, not just rows of seats
Point 4 of 5We move out intentionally with our time, talent, treasure, and testimony
Point 5 of 5God's will is not a mystery to hunt for — it's the bullseye we already know
Take it into your week
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Romans 15
Romans 15:1
Galatians 6
John 17

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Pastor Bill Bush · Mar 6, 2022 · 81 min watch · 2 min read

MOVE | Week 1 | Bill Bush

In this message

Big Idea
Key points
Application

Scripture in this message

Romans 15
Romans 15:1
Galatians 6
John 17

Big Idea Key points Application

Big Idea

Faith moves: because Christ already moved toward us in love, genuine faith now moves us toward Christ, into community, and out on mission.

Jesus already paid for our seat in the story by dying for us and drawing us to faith. Now that we're in, He asks us to move — toward Him in a growing relationship, into real biblical community, and out intentionally with our time, talent, treasure, and testimony to reach others.

Key points

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1Faith doesn't earn God's love, it responds to it — and it moves
Pastor Bill opens Romans 15 by noting that the first eleven chapters show Christ moving toward us first, dying for us and drawing us to faith before we ever looked for Him. Because He already moved, our faith now moves toward the things God has for us; we're not moving to earn love, but because we've already received it.
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2We move toward Christ by knowing Him personally
Pastor Bill explains that the goal of following Jesus isn't comfort but becoming like Him — pursuing holiness over happiness. He points to the Greek word for 'know' as meaning intimacy, not just information, and says this happens through daily time in the Word (reading, letting it read you, then praying) and through gathering to worship together, not choosing one over the other.
3
3We move into biblical community, not just rows of seats
Using Galatians 6:1-3, Pastor Bill lays out that real community means being known, accepted, supported, and developed — not just a comfortable 'fluffy middle' without the 'crunchy sides' of accountability. He challenges small group leaders to check whether their groups actually do this, and challenges men specifically to step up and lead the way into community.
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4We move out intentionally with our time, talent, treasure, and testimony
Pastor Bill argues discipleship and evangelism are not competing priorities — discipleship is evangelism, because Jesus said 'follow me and I will make you fishers of men,' not fishers of convenience. He pushes the congregation to serve, give, and even give up a convenient service time to make room for others, pointing to the church's food-bag outreach as an example of small inconvenience producing real blessing.
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5God's will is not a mystery to hunt for — it's the bullseye we already know
Pastor Bill describes a Venn diagram of know, grow, go and says decisions about jobs, relationships, or schools should be measured against whether they keep us moving toward Christ, into community, and out on mission — not treated as isolated puzzles. If an option doesn't block that center, he says, we're free to choose what we want.

Application

Pastor Bill frames the whole call as three moves: move toward, move in, move out.

Move toward Christ daily
Set aside time each day to actually be in the Word, let it examine your life, and pray through what it shows you, and commit to gathering with the church to worship rather than treating it as optional.
Find or build real community
Ask whether you have a few people who truly know you, accept you, support you, and will push you to grow, and if not, seek it out this week, including guys stepping up to lead a group.
Give up your convenient service time
If you're a mature believer with flexibility, consider shifting to a less full service time so newcomers have room, unless you're serving at 9 a.m. already.
Engage time, talent, treasure, and testimony
Serve, give, and get involved in outreach like the food-bag ministry rather than keeping your time and money to yourself, trusting God with the inconvenience.
Test decisions against the bullseye
When facing a hard choice, check whether an option blocks you from moving toward Christ, into community, or out in mission — if it doesn't, feel free to choose what you want.

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“And then we're gonna go back and look at the heart of it, and then we're gonna get in. Because some of the topics we get into are really something that if we don't understand this, you're gonna be like, nope, I'm not gonna move. I'm staring straight ahead. Especially as Americans. Some of the stuff he'd asked us to do to be at that's just not the way Americans think. And we have to be willing to move and not just stare straight ahead. So in chapter 15, what's happening”
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“So here we go. Chapter 15 starting in verse one. We who are strong must be considerate of those who are sensitive about things like this. We must not just please ourselves. We should help others do what is right and build them up in the Lord”
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“if you turn over a few pages, in Galatians chapter six there's three verses that tells us exactly what this means. To move in community, around here we call that grow. To grow in biblical community”
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“Here's what he actually said. I gotta speed up here. In John 17 he said this. This is a prayer, by the way, before he died, that he prayed over his disciples. And at the end of the prayer he says, and I'm not just praying for these guys”

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Day 1

There is a kind of faith that stays still — grateful, even sincere, but essentially motionless. Pastor Bill challenged that picture directly. In Romans 15, Paul is drawing the great theological arc of the first 11 chapters to a landing point: because Jesus moved first, our faith must move in response. He did not wait for us to get it together. He died for us while we were still far off, and His Spirit drew us to Himself. That is the engine behind everything Paul is asking of us here. The strong bear the burdens of the weak. We do not live to please ourselves. This is not a guilt trip — it is a portrait of what a life shaped by the gospel actually looks like in motion. Think about what it means that you were saved not just from something but for something. Saved from sin, yes — but saved for purpose, for community, for mission. The grace that rescued you was never meant to be the end of the story. It was meant to be the beginning of a whole new direction. That direction starts with a question worth sitting with honestly: is my faith moving? Not perfectly, not dramatically — but genuinely moving toward the things Jesus gave His life to accomplish?

For reflection

Where do you sense your faith is most stationary right now, and what might one honest step forward look like?

Pray

Pray for an honest, undefended look at where your faith has been standing still.

Day 2

Paul pauses in the middle of his practical instructions to remind us why Scripture was written in the first place — not just to inform us, but to sustain us. 'Such things were written in the Scriptures long ago to teach us. And the Scriptures give us hope and encouragement as we wait patiently for God's promises to be fulfilled.' Pastor Bill pressed on this distinction: there is a difference between knowing information about Jesus and pursuing genuine intimacy with Him. You can accumulate a lot of Bible knowledge and still keep Jesus at arm's length. The daily discipline of opening the Word is an act of positioning — you are showing up to be read as much as to read. The text has a way of finding the places in us we didn't plan to examine. It does not just hand us facts; it reshapes how we see reality, how we interpret our circumstances, and where we anchor our hope when things are hard. Consistent time in the Word is also one of the reasons corporate worship matters so much. Gathering together is not a spiritual bonus for the especially committed — it is the context in which the living Word keeps reorienting a community of people together. Both the private and the corporate rhythm feed the same thing: intimacy with Christ, not just information about Him.

For reflection

What is one honest obstacle — time, habit, distraction, or something else — that keeps your time in the Word from being as consistent as you want it to be?

Pray

Pray for a genuine hunger for the Word that goes beyond discipline into desire.

Day 3

Pastor Bill described what real biblical community looks like with four words: known, accepted, supported, and developed. That is a high bar — and Paul's language in Galatians 6 matches it. 'Share each other's burdens, and in this way obey the law of Christ.' The word Paul uses points to burdens that are genuinely heavy, the kind one person cannot carry alone. Community in the biblical sense is not just proximity. It is not showing up to the same room or being friendly in the hallway. It is the willingness to let someone see the real weight you are carrying — and to reach down and help lift it. That requires trust, which requires time. It also requires a certain kind of humility: Paul says, 'If you think you are too important to help someone, you are only fooling yourself.' The barrier to real community is rarely a lack of opportunity. It is usually the fear of being truly known — what happens if they see the whole picture? But the gospel has already answered that question. You are accepted in Christ before anyone else accepts you. That settled acceptance is actually what makes it safe to be known. You are not risking your standing before God when you let someone see your struggle. You are simply living out, in human relationship, what God has already declared to be true about you.

For reflection

Is there someone in your life who truly knows you — the full picture — and are you being that kind of person for someone else?

Pray

Pray for the courage to be genuinely known by at least one other person, and for eyes to see who might need that from you.

Day 4

One of the most striking things Pastor Bill pointed out is that biblical community is not meant to face inward indefinitely. Paul, in Romans 15, quotes a chain of Old Testament passages — all of them pointing toward the nations, toward people outside the original covenant community, hearing the name of Jesus and giving Him glory. The vision has always been outward. The Gentiles rejoicing, the nations hoping in Him — this is the trajectory of God's redemptive plan from the very beginning, and Paul sees the Roman church as participants in it. Community that only reinforces itself, that only looks inward at its own needs and relationships, has lost touch with the mission that gives it meaning. Locking arms with one another is meant to be the posture of people facing outward together — toward a world that has not yet heard, toward a neighbor who does not yet know, toward the person who is one honest conversation away from encountering Jesus. The warmth and depth of real community is never the destination; it is the fuel. The love you receive in community is meant to overflow. The encouragement you find in gathered worship is meant to spill into the week. The burdens lifted inside the circle are meant to free you to carry something outward. Community and mission are not competing — they are designed to feed each other.

For reflection

In what ways has your experience of community strengthened your sense of calling outward — and where might the two have become disconnected?

Pray

Pray for a vision of the people around you — at work, in your neighborhood, in your daily routine — who are still outside the family of God.

Day 5

'As You sent Me into the world, I am sending them into the world.' Jesus prays these words over His disciples the night before the cross — and by extension, He prays them over every follower who would come after. Pastor Bill made a point worth sitting with: we are not merely stuck in the world, enduring it until something better comes. We have been sent into it. That is an entirely different posture. Sent people notice things. They pay attention to the person who seems isolated at work, the neighbor who deflects every meaningful conversation, the family member who has been avoiding anything to do with faith. Sent people understand that their time, their particular skills, their financial capacity, and their own story of what God has done — their testimony — are not just personal assets. They are instruments of mission. Pastor Bill named this the one part of our calling with a shelf life. There will come a day when the mission is complete and every person who will come to faith has come. Until then, the window is open. That is not meant to create pressure; it is meant to create purpose. You have been placed exactly where you are, with exactly the life you have, and that placement is not accidental. The question is simply whether you are showing up to it as someone who has been sent.

For reflection

What specific part of your life — your time, a talent, your resources, or your story — feels most ready to be offered outward right now?

Pray

Pray for a renewed sense of being sent rather than simply situated in your daily context.

Day 6

After everything Paul has said about moving toward Christ, into community, and outward on mission, he pauses to offer a blessing — and the blessing is striking in what it asks for. 'I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in Him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.' Notice what Paul does not say. He does not say: now that you have your movement right, you will earn peace. He says that God is the source of hope, that the filling is His to give, and that the overflow comes through His power. This matters because the three movements Pastor Bill described — toward Christ, into community, and outward on mission — are not a performance program. They are not a checklist that, when completed, unlocks God's favor. They are responses to a grace that was already given, and they are sustained by the same Spirit who initiated our faith in the first place. Joy and peace are the fruit of trust, and trust grows as we stay close to the One who is trustworthy. The practical movements are real — open your Bible, find your people, give yourself to the mission — but they are expressions of a relationship, not replacements for one. Let the source of hope be your anchor today, not your own effort to get the movements right.

For reflection

Where in your life right now do you most need to receive joy and peace rather than try harder to produce them?

Pray

Pray to receive — not just pursue — the hope, joy, and peace that Paul says God is ready to give.

Day 7

Coming back to the whole passage at the end of the week, it is worth asking the question Pastor Bill left the room with: where am I in this? Not as a verdict, but as an honest inventory. The three movements — toward Christ, into community, outward on mission — are not three separate programs running in parallel. They are one integrated life, shaped by the gospel, animated by the Spirit, and aimed at the same thing Jesus aimed at. What Paul describes in Romans 15 is not a heroic standard for the especially dedicated. It is the natural shape of a life that keeps returning to the grace that started everything. You were saved from something, yes. But you were saved for this — for knowing Jesus deeply, for being genuinely known and loved by a community of people doing the same thing, and for carrying that outward into a world that is still waiting. The next step is rarely dramatic. It is usually small and specific: show up this Sunday, reach out to someone about a group, find one place to serve, or simply tell one person what Jesus has done in your life. The shelf life on that last one is real — and so is the invitation. One move. One honest step in the direction your faith is already leaning. That is enough to start.

For reflection

Looking back over this week, which of the three movements — toward Christ, into community, or outward on mission — is most alive in you right now, and which one is asking for your next step?

Pray

Pray for the clarity and courage to take one specific next step — and for the grace to trust that small, faithful movement is exactly what God uses.

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Open

This message lands on a simple but arresting idea: Jesus moved first — and genuine faith moves in response. Before we dig in, what's one word that comes to mind when you hear the phrase 'faith that moves'?

Discussion questions

1
In Romans 15:1–3, Paul points to Jesus as the model — One who did not please Himself but bore the burdens of others. What do you think Paul wants his readers to understand about the connection between what Jesus did and what followers of Jesus are called to do?
2
Romans 15:4 ties the Scriptures directly to hope. Pastor Bill described the goal of time in the Word not just as gaining information about Christ, but as growing in intimacy with Him. What's the difference between those two things, and why might that distinction matter?
3
Pastor Bill described biblical community using four words: known, accepted, supported, and developed. Looking at Galatians 6:1–3, which of those four do you think is hardest for most people to give to someone else — and why?
4
Pastor Bill drew a contrast between a community that looks inward and one that locks arms facing outward toward a lost world. In Romans 15:9–12, Paul points to the nations as part of God's long plan of redemption. How does that vision change the way we might think about what a healthy small group or friendship circle is for?
5
Pastor Bill said that the outward movement — giving our time, talents, treasure, and testimony to the mission — is 'the one part of our calling with a shelf life.' What do you think he meant by that, and how does it reframe the sense of urgency around reaching people?
6
Pastor Bill wrapped up by suggesting a simple next move: show up, sign up to serve, join a group, or shift a service time to make room for someone new. As a group, how might we encourage one another to actually take that one step rather than just think about it?

Pray together

Ask God to show each person in the group where their next movement is — toward Christ, into community, or outward on mission — and for the courage to take one concrete step.

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