Sunday, September 24

Sunday Service Livestream

Sunday sermon

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Discipleship Recap

Adult Discipleship
At the Rectors Forum The Rev. CJ Ausmus continued our series on the Four Gospel Commands that help to define our life together living out our "One Great Puprose: Make Disciples." This week we focused on the second half of the first Gospel Command found in Mark 1:15, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel." We found that everyone believes in something and the question for us is defining what is it that we believe is the Gospel. The term Gospel means "Good News" and the goon news that we have is embodied in the person of Jesus; therefore, The Gospel is Jesus. We trust that is the Christ (Messiah/promised one/savior) and the Son of God (the one who can truly forgive and save us from our sins). The challenge for us is living out this reality. The good news of Jesus is the lens that we view everything else: the world, people, ourselves. 

Student Discipleship
This past Sunday at Student Discipleship, The Rev. Shay Gregorie, continued our series in Philippians with chapter 2. The students learned that Paul, after encouraging the Philippian believers to be unselfish toward one another and to live among each other as citizens of heaven, grounds that encouragement in Christ’s unselfishness to us. Paul then makes the explicit connection again, as he did in 1:27-2:4—Christians act the way they do because of who Christ is to them. ​
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CCA Kids' Discipleship
In Children's Church, we talked about the story of the tower of Babel. After the flood, God told Noah and his family to go live around the world. But soon the people began to think that they knew better than God and this was pride. To show off their importance, they decided to build a great tower. God didn’t like that His people had disobeyed Him, and that pride had filled their hearts. Since the people all spoke one language at that time, God gave them all different languages that caused confusion when communicating with one another. Because of this, they were not able to finish their tower and they were scattered throughout the world. We need to be careful to not have a prideful heart. God gave us many abilities and because of Him we can do many things. We ended the lesson by sharing what many talents God has given each of us and we thanked God for these wonderful talents. 

In Discipleship class, we ended our series about bad days in the Bible with Paul and Silas' story. Paul and Silas were missionaries and were thrown in jail and that was a very bad day for them. But that did not stop them from sharing about Jesus to other prisoners and to worship and sing praises to God. We talked about how we can trust God in those bad days by worshipping and praising God. Next Sunday we begin our practices for the Christmas Pageant!