On Pentecost Sunday, Mark Sayers brings our series A Sent People to its turning point in Acts 2, the moment the Spirit is poured out and the church is born. But before he unpacks the violent wind and the tongues of fire, Mark takes us back to Peter, who followed at a distance, who denied Jesus around the fire, who wept bitterly. What closes the gap between that broken man and the bold preacher who stands up on Pentecost? Preparation. Mark reminds us that God is always pouring out His Spirit; the real question is what kind of soil He's landing on.

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As we approach Pentecost, Mark takes us into Acts 2 to explore one of the great preconditions for the Spirit being poured out, that He falls not on isolated individuals, but on a people gathered together. Drawing a line from the ancient heresy of Gnosticism to the modern, Oprah-flavoured "religion without a name," Mark exposes the enemy's long-running strategy to atomise the church into disconnected spiritual individuals, each chasing a private Pentecost. But the gospel moves in the opposite direction: Jesus descends into flesh, dwells among us, and pours His Spirit onto a community.

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Continuing our series A Sent People, Trudi Sayers opens up Acts 2:33 and Philippians 2 to explore the two sides of being "poured out" — the Spirit Jesus pours into us, and the lives we then pour out for others. Trudi reminds us that Jesus did not consider equality with God something to cling to, but took on the very nature of a servant — and calls us to do the same. The good news? God pours His Spirit onto poured-out people. Trudi invites us to bring the fragments of our lives, our weakness, our brokenness, and our yes to the altar — trusting that Christ will make something beautiful out of what we surrender.

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Continuing our series A Sent People, Ryan opens up Acts 10 and 11, the moment Peter is jolted out of his comfort zone by a strange vision and an even stranger invitation to walk into a Gentile's home. Through Peter's story, Ryan unpacks five temptations that keep us from saying yes to God: not caring enough, feeling unequipped, fearing being the first one, losing sight of our purpose, and resisting change. Being sent, he reminds us, is never past tense — it's the ongoing posture of God's people. Whether God is stirring something new in you personally or in us as a community, the invitation is the same: Will we be courageous, pliable, and willing to pray, "send me, I'll go"?

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In our series, A Sent People, Mark continues in the book of Acts to remind us that purpose alone isn't enough — vision animates us, but perseverance is what carries us. Facing corruption, persecution, and distraction, the early church kept moving, and God turned every obstacle into growth. Drawing from Acts 5 and 6, and sharing a deeply personal story from the early days of Red Church, Mark invites us into a different kind of time — one where suffering is redeemed, weakness becomes strength, and faithful, ordinary steps shape a future we can't yet see.

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Being sent by God sounds exciting — until you realise you're sent with other people. And with a God who keeps combining the to-do lists. In this message from A Sent People, Ryan explores the tension between doing too much and doing too little, between protagonist and passenger, and what it actually looks like to partner with God when he invites you to feed 5,000 people with a packed lunch.

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A message for our 10 am Nunawading service.

The disciples had every reason to walk away. But they didn't — they gathered, they prayed, and they waited. And 120 people changed the world. In this message from A Sent People, Daniel Murton explores what it means to move from the sidelines into the story God is writing — and why someone, somewhere, is waiting for you to show up.

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After Easter, it's easy to lose momentum — but the story doesn't stop there. In this opening message of A Sent People, Mark Sayers unpacks the moment between Jesus' ascension and Pentecost, asking a confronting question: are you trying to make yourself the main character, or are you drifting along as a passive bystander? Drawing from Acts 1 and the prophetic vision of Daniel, Mark reframes what it means to live with purpose — not a journalled life-plan, but something far grander.

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