Sermon Outline 8.31.25

Title: The Mission the God of Peace Advances Text: Romans 15:22-33
Big Idea: God advances His mission through the church’s plans, provision, prayer, and partnership, until His peace reigns among all peoples.

INTRODUCTION

I. Plans Redirected: God Redirects Our Plans for His Mission (vv. 22-24)

• Paul was “hindered” (v. 22), literally “cut off.”
• God had closed things by filling them. READ v.23
• “Helped on my way” (v. 24) = “to send forward.”

II. Provision as Fruits: God Produces Generous Fruit for His Mission (vv. 25-29)

• Paul was carrying a Gentile offering to Jewish believers.
• It was more than charity. It was covenant reciprocity (v. 27).
• He called their gift “fruit” (v. 28) — visible evidence of Spirit-transformed hearts.
• That fruit, Paul says, will overflow into “the fullness of Christ’s blessing” (v.29).

III. Prayer as Warfare: God Advances Mission Through Wrestling Prayer (vv. 30-32)

• “Strive together w/me,” a word for the arena or the battlefield.
• Paul’s requests (v.31) reflect this struggle
• v. 32 “refreshed together.” Prayer doesn’t just guard Paul; it revives the church.

IV. Peace as the Goal: God Brings Peace to His People (v. 33)

• Paul ends with/“the God of peace.”

CONCLUSION