In July 2021, Kevin Kompelien, president of the EFCA delivered a sermon at First Evangelical Free Church in St Louis centered around the values of the EFCA. This is an edited version of that video sermon that I used at First Evangelical Free Church in Brooklyn, NY in July 2022. I removed some of the specifics to the particular church (First Free St Louis) but made it clear it was delivered in that specific context. I placed the “Who is the EFCA” video at the end rather than where it was originally, before the sermon. The video length is 37 minutes and I think it could be showed at many small EFCA churches as is with out any further video editing.

The values covered in the sermon and place on the screen are as follows. These could be printed in a bulletin or handout for churches (like mine) that do that sort of thing.

• Word: Know and obey God’s authoritative scriptures
• Abide: Prayerful dependence on Jesus in the power of the Holy Spirit
• Gospel: Centrality of the transforming work of Christ
• Mission: Great Commandment and Great Commission disciplemaking among all people
• Community: Priesthood of all believers in appropriate interdependence
• Unity: In essentials; unity, in the rest; charity.

He has a graphic displaying the EFCA Mission Statement: We exist to glorify God by multiplying transformational churches among all people. The graphic has the values as the foundational stones at the bottom and a relationship between discipleship, evangelism/expansion, and strengthening/renewing that looks like this…

The video as I edited it can be streamed on Youtube here: https://youtu.be/9Kh21HrA_ww

and can be downloaded for offline editing and playing on a desktop computer from Dropbox here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/b55uctoatoxh0g6/2022%2007%2003%20Sermon%20Kevin%20Kompelien.mp4?dl=0

The original can be streamed from First Free St Louis’ Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWYtQ9FOAVE

The scripture Kevin reads through is: Mark 1:1-8
The benediction I plan to use is: Isaiah 52:6-10
It would be great to have a suggested Call to Worship or any other appropriate liturgical ideas (including song selection).