Go Fish: Don't Muddy the Water

Religion can seem to be such a complicated thing. In fact, often, is the stuff that makes it complicated that keeps people from becoming a Christian. But in reality what each of us needs to know to be a Christ follower is very, very simple: God loved, God gave, we believe, we receive.

Worship Wednesdays

We have one more Worship Wednesday left, are there any worship ideas that you would like to suggest for our last Wednesday? Any creative ideas for how to share communion together?

Go Fish: Fishing Buddies

Want some good news? We were not challenged to fish alone.

We each have an amazing story of God's love that we can individually share with people in our circles. There is something completely irreplaceable about the power of your story. There is also something irreplaceable about the role of the church in our opportunities to share God's love with others.

So, fishing is not a solo sport. It is designed to be done together. You have a very important part and so does the church.

Go Fish: Caught and Released

Jesus made a very interesting appeal to the first disciples. He challenged them to "come follow Me and I will make you..." Did He say "wise", or maybe "disciplined", or how about "great fathers to your children" or even "great pastors?" No, He said "I will make you fishers of men." And He did just that. These 12 men started what soon became the Church. They did not do this because of their knowledge or talent or skills, but because of what they had seen. They had seen Christ - the Son of God and had experienced for themselves His love for them. And they couldn't help but tell others about it.

You and I were fish once.

Someone cared enough about us that they couldn't let us keep going through life without showing us Christ Who had changed their lives - knowing that He would do the same for us.

So we were caught and we too are released to tell others about this amazing thing that has happened in our lives.

Updating IT

So, I mentioned before that IT will be a three week series... make that four.

The forth week of IT will be September 6 and will be called Radiate IT. We will address how once we have IT it is almost impossible not to let others around us see IT in us.

Thoughts for this new week?

IT: Keep IT

Once we have IT, we definitely don't want to lose IT, but somehow life gets in the way of IT. What elements can we use to help challenge people to Keep IT?

IT: Get IT

After our first week in IT where we will talk about what IT is, we're going to talk about how we "Get IT". What elements can you think of that would help us illustrate how to "Get IT"?

IT?

Sunday, August 16 we're launching IT.

We're going to talk about what IT is.

IT is something you can't manufacture, but you can feel IT, see IT and experience the effects of IT. You know IT when you have IT.

Do you know people who have stories about having IT?

Have you seen dramas or videos that capture the idea of IT? or that capture a great image of what IT is not?

Some ideas to get your creative wheels spinning:

Drama - Pulpit Talk
Drama/Video - Amena Brown's "You"
Song - "Something Changed" Sara Groves


So, what other ideas do you have to help us talk about IT?