Baptists Preaching is a column from the Baptist Standard. It is not an effort to advance any one theology or style but to present what a collection of Baptists considers a word from God. Likewise, Baptists Preaching offers a repository of Baptist preaching for future study and research. To recommend a sermon to be featured in Baptists Preaching, please contact [email protected].
Corey Cornutt: Undomesticated (Mark 1:35-39)
Corey Cornutt, lead pastor of First Baptist Church in Grandview, opened with the image of a housecat, which is genetically built for more than living in a house. He wondered if modern Christians are something like a housecat. They know they’re made for more but are comfortable living inside.
By contrast, Jesus is not a domesticated housecat, Cornutt declared. Jesus wasn’t seeking to meet everyone’s expectations, but to do God’s will. “While Jesus served people, he was never mastered by people. He had one Master, his heavenly Father,” Cornutt said.
His heavenly Father was more important to Jesus than any mission, so much that Jesus’ mission was to tell everyone about his Father, Cornutt continued. He then challenged his hearers, asking if they have the same kind of active relationship with God the Father that drives them to tell others about him.
Just as Jesus went out in the dark hours to seek God, Cornutt asked his hearers if they could leave their 21st-century comforts to seek and experience “God in the wild.”
This sermon was delivered Oct. 9, 2022, for the morning worship service of First Baptist Church in Grandview.
A sermon outline is available here. A sermon podcast is available here.
We seek to connect God’s story and God’s people around the world. To learn more about God’s story, click here.
Send comments and feedback to Eric Black, our editor. For comments to be published, please specify “letter to the editor.” Maximum length for publication is 300 words.