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God Loves You

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 19:46:00 +0000

It’s difficult for us to understand how much we matter unless we go back to the beginning when God set all of this in motion. We looked last week at the Creation story and how God created the earth and the sky and trees and animals. And then He breathed life into the first man and woman, Adam and Eve.

This is how the writer of Genesis summarizes: So God created mankind in His own image, in the image of God He created them; male and female He created them.” And then the writer concludes with this powerful exclamation point: “God saw all that He had made and said, ‘It is very good.’ (Genesis 1:31 NIV)

Why was it very good? Because God saw Himself in what He had made.

It’s the same with you. If you were here last week, you may remember that we talked about God creating you in His image. It’s like saying this: we have the DNA of God inside of us. God wired us in His image to be a reflection of Him.

But what does that actually mean?

One day, a group of people asked Jesus what was the most important thing they could do or think. Jesus answered by quoting the verses we looked at last week. Then, what He says next is pretty hard to believe. Jesus replied: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself. (Matthew 22:37-39 NIV)

Go ahead and highlight the phrase: “As yourself.” In this verse Jesus is saying that loving yourself and others is just as important as loving God. This was huge for them then, and is huge for us now. Loving God seems like something God would ask us to do. But you probably don’t expect Him to say it’s as big of a deal as loving yourself.

Most people are great at comparing themselves to others. Most people are great at defending themselves. Most people are great at rejecting themselves. Jesus wants us to be great at loving ourselves

John 3:16- 17 says that God SO LOVED THE WORLD that HE sent HIS ONE AND ONLY SON! That whoever should believe in Him will have eternal life, for God did not send His son into the world to condemn it, but to save it.

1 John: “How great is the love the Father has LAVISHED on us.” You probably haven’t used the word “lavish” in a sentence in your entire life, so let me give you some definitions. According to merriam-webster.com, lavish means:

Giving or using a large amount of something
Given in large amounts
Having a very rich and expensive quality

If you’ve been going to church for a while, you’ve probably heard—or even said—the phrase, “God loves me.” And maybe there are even times when you believe it. But do you ever think about it in large amounts? Ridiculous, over-the-top, rich quantities?

Do you ever see God as a Father who LAVISHES you with His love?

He does. And those ridiculous, over-the-top, rich quantities never change. They remain constant. God loves you exactly as you are, and He will never stop loving you.

As you go to small group today, I want you to think about this question: How can the way God sees you change the way that you see yourself?

The Image of God is All Around Us....

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 19:41:00 +0000

Do you know how a cell phone works? What about a tablet? Or what about the WiFi connection at your favorite coffee shop. Sure, we like using them, but doesn’t it seem strange to you that you can type a few words and they pop up on a screen on the other side of town? Or you can snap a photo on your phone and make it appear instantly on someone else’s, even if they’re in another country?

The truth is, we’re around wireless devices all the time but most of us have no idea how they work. They feel like magic. And if we’re honest, sometimes we get the same feeling when it comes to God.

People talk about knowing Him or even loving Him, but how does that work when you can’t see Him? How do you have a conversation with someone who doesn’t talk back? Believe it or not, the answer may be far less complicated than you think.

As we take a look back at the very beginning we discover that, not only did God design the world around us, but He wired something in us that can help us to connect with Him. And when we take notice of it, we may just find that He becomes less invisible to us all the time.

The same is true for God and us. Even though we can’t see Him, there is evidence that He wired us. And when we begin to see the evidence of His wiring, He becomes a little less invisible to us.

In the Bible there is a particular book called Deuteronomy that has a verse connected with this idea. It says, Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength (Deuteronomy 6:4-5 NIV).

Moses, the author, is telling the people of Israel, the people who had been raised hearing the stories of creation, hearing the stories of God’s image being on each and every person - that the most important thing for them to do is to love this God. And the same is true for us.

And that sounds crazy, because we can’t see Him. But God says to do this because we are wired to. The image of God in us makes it possible to love Him. Look for evidence of God. And when you see it, acknowledge Him. Thank Him. Appreciate Him. That’s loving Him.

Jesus said in John 15:12-13, “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends." And what does Jesus do for all of humanity? He laid down His life for us so that all who believe in Him may have eternal life. Will you say Yes to Jesus?

Wired

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 21:16:00 +0000

How many hours are you technologically connected on a normal day? If you were to add up your hours online, your glances at text messages, your streaming music, your perusing social media, your Netflix addiction, how many hours could you count? It’s probably a lot.

Our culture is obsessed with technology—and with good reason. Technology keeps us connected to each other and to the world around us. Nearly every device we own transmits signals to something else, somewhere else. Why?

Because that’s how they’re wired to function. Our phones, tablets, smart watches, gaming systems
they all are wired to connect to something outside them.

And the same is true for us. We are wired for connection. It’s in our design. As we take a closer look at what Jesus called “the greatest commandment”, we discover that we were wired to have three vital relationships: with God, with ourselves, and with others. And when those connections are made, everything else begins to function as it was designed to.

How were we wired? The Bible states in Genesis that God designed us specifically, and were made to imitate God.

Genesis 1:26-27

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

So God created man in His own image
in the image of God he created him;
    male and female he created them.
(www.biblegateway.com) 

Say Yes to God. Romans 10:9

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 13:54:00 +0000

King David is mentioned in the book of Acts which is in the New Testament, this book was written a long time after David lived. This may seem strange, because David’s story is in the Old Testament. But even that many years after David’s death, he was so significant that the world was still talking about him. This is what was written about him.

“God testified concerning [David]: ‘I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do.’” (Acts 13:22)

Did you catch it? What was the thing about David that got God’s attention and helped him track with God’s plan for his life? He was a “man after God’s own heart” – a man who did everything God wanted him to do.

So what exactly does that mean? In their culture someone’s heart represented the thing that moved them. It represented what was important to them. So it’s talking about the things that were important to God—what God wanted and cared about.

And it says that David was “after” God’s heart. So whatever God wanted and cared about, David was a guy who was “after it.” In short, David is remembered because he said yes to God. And not just once. David said yes to God over, and over, and over.

In fact, David was so dedicated to saying yes to God that I think he did what you did in our game a few minutes ago. He said yes to God before he even knew what God was asking. Most of us don’t operate that way with God. We wait to see what God wants from us before we figure out how to answer. We wait to see how hard or awkward or costly it’s going to be. But David was just the opposite.

God chose David because he was after His heart. He knew David would say yes. Even when David made mistakes (and he made some really big mistakes), David always came back to God. He always, eventually, said yes.

It started when David was a shepherd.

David, will you take care for these sheep? Yes. 

David, will you fight Goliath? Yes. 

David, will you honor Saul for me? Yes. 

David, will you bring your sin into the light and let me heal it? Yes.

David, will you do whatever I ask, go wherever I ask, and be whoever I ask? Yes.

Do you want to know how David went from a no-name shepherd to the most famous king in the Bible? One yes at a time.

And the same is true of you. If you want to know how to live an extraordinary life, if you want to do something significant, if you want God to use you in big ways, then say yes to God.

Bottom Line: Be a man or a woman after His heart. Say yes to God. How do you say yes? You ask God to forgive you of your sins, to redeem your life, and to send the Holy Spirit into your life. John 3:16 and Romans 10:9.

Life is Better in the Light - 1 John 1:9

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 12:16:00 +0000

The Bible tells us that King David, when he was finally King, was doing a pretty great job. He won lots of battles. The kingdom was growing, and his people really liked him. Things were going great… until one fateful night, when David found himself alone in the palace.

“One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, ‘She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.’” (2 Samuel 11:2-3)

Whoa! It’s getting a little PG-13 in here. David saw a beautiful girl taking a bath on the rooftop. We find out later that her name is Bathsheba. He invites her over to hang out and… well, they do some things they should definitely not have done because Bathsheba was definitely not David’s wife. She was married to a guy named Uriah, who was actually in David’s army fighting on the front lines, while he and Bathsheba were hanging out. Talk about betrayal! Talk about dirty little secrets! Wow!

Does David tell anyone? Nope. Does he apologize? Nope. He just hides it. He pretends it never happened. And for a while, that seems to be working for David until Uriah came home. Then things get complicated. David starts thinking, How can I convince Uriah nothing happened? How can I keep this a secret? He starts scheming.

And this is where David learns his first lesson about hiding in the dark.

Hiding secrets is hard. Have you ever noticed that? Maybe you’ve told a lie to cover up what you’ve done. But, before long, what do you find yourself having to do? You guessed it. If you want your screw-up, and your lie to stay a secret, you’ve got to tell even more lies. The lies start to add up. You get paranoid. You wonder if your friends know, or if your mom has suspicions, or if the teachers are secretly talking about you. Hiding in the dark may have seemed like a great idea at first, but the truth is… it’s hard! Life is complicated when we live in the dark.

This is exactly what happened for David. He lied to cover up what happened with Bathsheba, but her husband Uriah isn’t exactly cooperating with David’s schemes. David is afraid he’s going to be found out.

“In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. In it he wrote, ‘Put Uriah out in front where the fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die.’” (2 Samuel 11:14-15 NIV)

Whoa! Hold up! That escalated quickly. First, he cheated with this man’s wife. Now he’s planning to murder him. How did that happen? It happened because of the dark.

Secrets grow in the dark. When you hide your mistakes, they don’t go away. They just grow. They get bigger and uglier and more complicated. Maybe you know exactly what I mean. Maybe you started with one little secret about a mistake you made just one time, but now it’s spinning out of control. Maybe it’s now a mistake you make over and over and over again. Maybe you’ve made more mistakes trying to cover up that first mistake. That’s where David is in this story.

Do you know what he did next? He sent Uriah to the part of the battlefield where he knew Uriah would be likely to be killed. And you know what? He was. David had this man killed. He knew what he was doing. He knew it was wrong. He has now sinned against Uriah, against Bathsheba, and against God so badly. He can feel it. The God who’s been so close to David until now, suddenly feels distant.

David wrote songs during this time period that we can read in the book of Psalms. He used phrases like “crushed, cast out, joyless” to describe how things felt between him and God. We know why he felt this way. Because hiding is hard, and secrets grow in the dark.

God brought a guy named Nathan into David’s life. Nathan knew what David had done, but instead of letting him continue living in the dark, Nathan shined a light on what David did. He confronted him. He told David to fix it, to come clean, to make things right. Because life is better in the light.

Can you imagine what David must have felt in that moment? The fear? The embarrassment?

Right then, David had a choice. He could keep hiding in the dark… or he could step into the light. If you’re wondering which choice David made, let’s take a look at a song he wrote during this ordeal. We can find it in the Bible, in the book of Psalms: “Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me… Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me (Psalm 51: 1-10).”

I know when we mess up, or hurt people, our natural reaction is to hide. But I want to encourage you to take a different path. Fight the urge to step into the darkness and choose to step into the light instead. The darkness might seem safe at first. But the things we hide won’t always stay hidden. They’ll get bigger and bigger, until we can’t hide them any longer.

But when we bring our secrets into the light, we can find healing and hope because that’s where God is.

Bottom Line: Every time we make a mistake, God is saying to us, “Don’t go into the dark. Come into the light. I’ll forgive you and heal you and help you. No matter what, I’ll never stop loving you. Life is better in the light.” Take a look at 1 John 1:9.

God Uses People to Grow Our Faith

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 14:15:00 +0000

Last week, we started looking at the life of King David, a famous and extraordinary character in the Bible. We began by looking at David’s childhood and how God used David’s now to prepare him for something significant in his future: winning a battle against Goliath, a giant whose army was at war with David’s nation. Today, we’re going to fast-forward from when David killed Goliath because, shortly afterward, David found himself in the exact same position as we find ourselves in: struggling to obey someone in authority.

You see, even before David killed Goliath, he was chosen by God to be the next king of Israel. There was a slight problem though—Saul was the current king, and he didn’t want to hand over his throne. So he decided to kill David. And David ran. He fled with a group of friends into the wilderness with King Saul in hot pursuit.

And then a huge opportunity came along for David.

“So Saul took three thousand able young men from all Israel and set out to look for David and his men near the Crags of the Wild Goats. He came to the sheep pens along the way; a cave was there, and Saul went in to relieve himself. David and his men were far back in the cave.” (1 Samuel 24:2-3)

Hold the phone. Did that just happen? Is there really a story about someone “relieving themselves” in the Bible? Yes. Yes, there is.

Anyway, David’s friends told him, “David, this is your chance. Go kill the guy! He’ll never see you coming!” At this point, David had a decision to make. This could be his moment. He’s no longer a kid. He’s not following along anymore. He’s the new anointed king of Israel! He’s ready to lead the way. This could be his moment! “Go kill him, David. No one will know!”

And isn’t that where we find ourselves so many times? Trying to decide what to do in this space between “following along” and “leading the way?” But David did something here that we can all learn from. It’s something he was sure God wanted him to do. It’s the same thing God wants you to do today.

He said to his men, “The Lord forbid that I should do such a thing to my master, the Lord’s anointed, or lay my hand on him; for he is the anointed of the Lord.” (1 Samuel 24:4-7)

You see, David realized that the secret to dealing with authority when you’re young, struggling with authority, and being stuck in between following and leading, is to respond to God – not to them. In the middle of that dark cave, David didn’t just think about himself and King Saul. He thought about God, too. Even though Saul was crazy and cruel and tried to kill him, David still knew that God was involved. In that cave, David knew it was God who was really asking him to honor Saul. It was God who had put Saul on the throne. Sure, God had told David he would be king someday, but not yet. David honored Saul. Not for Saul’s sake. But for God’s.

Bottom Line: God uses people, to interact in our lives, so that He can grow our Faith in God.

Your Life and Circumstances Matter

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 18:21:00 +0000

Have you heard about a guy named King David from the Bible? David lived a pretty crazy life, which is why we’re going to spend four weeks talking about him. But before we get to all of the cool stuff David did, like becoming a king, let’s start by talking about where his life began. Before he became a big deal, David was once like you—a normal kid trying to make it through life and stay out of trouble. When David was your age, he was a shepherd. That’s not exactly the kind of job that usually leads to you becoming a king. He literally had to spend hours and hours and hours and hours out in a boring field with some boring sheep. Not only was it boring, but it also was dangerous. The Bible tells us that he actually had to fight off lions and bears. What? Yea you thought making your bed in the morning was hard. This guy had to fight off wildlife!

I don’t know this for sure, but I imagine David probably had days where he asked the same questions you ask. “Why do I have to do this? Why do you have me here? Why do I have to do what my dad says and watch after these sheep? Why do I have to be responsible and fight off these lions and bears? I’m never going to get anywhere in life doing this. Your way seems like it’s going nowhere! UGH!”

So let me tell you what happened to David. One day, while David was tending the sheep, his older brothers were out on the battlefield with the army of Israel. Sounds pretty cool, right? Definitely more exciting than being a shepherd. At that time, there was a giant named Goliath taunting Israel and God. Everyone was scared and unwilling to fight him. David and noticed what was happening with Goliath and do you know what he did? He stepped up. He volunteered to face the giant. He took his slingshot, walked down into the valley to the giant, and whacked him in the head with a rock which killed him right there on the spot. And in an instant… David became a hero. In an instant, he was on the fast track to becoming the king.

But there’s something huge that you can’t miss. I want you to hear what he said right before he faced Goliath. Saul, the king of Israel, asked him how he a boy was ready to kill a giant. Check out David’s response.

Your servant has been keeping his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it. Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God. (1 Samuel 17:34-36 NIV)

Do you see what David saw? He could have easily thought that God was wasting his time by putting him out in the field with the sheep. But he saw something we all need to see: David realized that his now may have seemed insignificant at the time. But it mattered for his future. The lions and the bears were preparing him for the giant. Shepherding the sheep was preparing him to be the king of an entire nation.

Bottom Line: YOUR Now, matters Now. Let God use you where you are at to be His hands and feet to those around you.

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 17:51:00 +0000

Well,

This week we officially kick off the JR high youth group and next week we start SR high youth group!

Thursday Night = JR High @ 6:30pm-8pm!

Tuesday Night = SR high @ 6:30pm-8pm!

Just a quick reminder that you are able to sign up for our texting reminders! We like to text you periodically to inform you about all that is going on and to remind you about youth group each week.
You can simple pick which group you would like to receive text updates from:

Text: gcfjr TO 41411. Once you send the initial text PLZ reply to the text you get back, with a Y.
(JR high)

Text: gcfsr TO 41411. Please respond with a Y once you receive a text back from this number.
(SR high)

Youth Retreat will be at the end of October for all 8th grade - 12th grade students! Saturday, Oct. 31- Nov. 1. Sign up at Sunday morning class or at Youth Group.

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Youth Group PRE-View II

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 21:10:00 +0000

Part of what we will be doing at Youth Group this year is some personal evangelism. How are we going to do that?

We are going to be passing out the Gospel of John to our Friends at School. It is an easy and simple way to invite Friends to Youth Group, to share what God is doing in your life, and You get to be God's Ambassador.

The Bible claims that we, Christians, are God's Ambassador's. That Christians have a very specific role to play while here on earth. Here is what 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 says:

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, and look, new things have come. Everything is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: That is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed the message of reconciliation to us. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, certain that God is appealing through us. We plead on Christ’s behalf, “Be reconciled to God.” He made the One who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him

So what does this look like exactly? Check out this clip and know that we have over 500 books currently in our possession for YOU to give to your friends. Will you?

The Life Book Movement

Youth Group Preview

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 18:03:00 +0000

So as we gear up for this Fall we wanted to preview what we will be looking at this year!

So, for the next couple weeks we will preview our Youth Group Series that we will be looking at this fall. Once youth group starts up, we will post a follow up to youth group nights every Friday on a quick summary to what happened each week.

REMINDER:

JR HIGH YOUTH GROUP (6-8) STARTS: THURSDAY, OCT. 1ST @ 6:30PM-8PM

SR HIGH YOUTH GROUP (9-12) STARTS: TUESDAY, OCT. 6TH @ 6:30PM-8PM

First Series: King David

Who was King David? He was one of the most influential Kings of the Bible. It was said that King David was a man after God's own heart (1 Samuel 13:14). Yet King David made a ton of mistakes himself and was far from perfect. Its the decisions he made after he failed, messed up, and was called out that made King David a role model to follow. Maybe you have read some of his writings? Psalm 23 or Psalm 51?

Here is what the series overview has to say:

Every good story has a hero. Think about it. Superman. Luke Skywalker. Katniss Everdeen. They aren’t just random characters. They’re larger than life. Maybe they’re not perfect, but they’re exciting and they’re brave. And that’s what keeps us interested. That’s why we cheer for them. Believe it or not, the Bible is full of heroes like that. They don’t have capes and light sabers, but they are heroes who fought giants, built arks, became spies, defeated armies, and saved the day over and over. One of the most famous ones is named David— or maybe you know him as King David. Like many others, David’s life was exciting, epic even. And at first glance it can feel like we have zero common with him. Even on our most exciting days our lives don’t exactly feel heroic. But as we take a closer look at the journey of this shepherd boy turned king, we see it wasn’t always a royal fairy-tale. In fact, as we discover the twists and turns of his road to the throne, his life begins to look more like ours than we ever imagined. (www.thinkorange.com)

Live the Mission -What Mission?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 16:00:00 +0000

The next three weeks we will be focusing on the mindset of Living the Mission. We will be doing three segments called, "What Mission?" "Why the Mission?" and "How the Mission?"

Live the Mission- What Mission?

Have you ever asked yourself the questions; What are we living for? What is our purpose?

Let me counter that with another question; what am I made for?

As Christians, we each have a very specific calling to fulfill that came directly from Jesus. It is one calling specifically for all Christians and in that calling Jesus also gave us a mission. Our calling as Christians go hand-in-hand with the mission that Jesus left us. In this short blog I am going to dive into what our calling as Christians is and what the mission of our lives are supposed to be.

Give these few verses a read before you skip to the bottom of the page;

Matthew 28:18-20

“And Jesus came and said to them, ‘All authority in Heaven and Earth has been given to me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, even to the end of days.”

Titus 2:7,8

“Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity, and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame.”

John 14:12-15

“Truly, Truly I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it. If you love me, you will keep my commandments.”

John 3:16-21

“For God so loved the world,^[a] that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. ²⁰For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”

The common factor throughout all the teachings in the New Testament in living a Christian life is living a life that glorifies Jesus. Living a Christian life means that you are no longer worried about the things of this world but are constantly striving towards Christ-likeness and glorifying His name. That is our life calling as Christians.

How do we do that?

John 14:21

“He who loves me will keep my commandments. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and be manifest in Him.”

How do we do that, I ask again…

If you love Him, if I love Him, an automatic response to that love will be an outpouring of praise and ministry. But what is this mission I spoke of earlier?

What was the last commandment Jesus gave to His disciples before He ascended to Heaven?

“Therefore, go.”

The mission He has entrusted to us, the mission He has set us apart for from before time, is to spread the word of His good news. He trusted us with the knowledge of His death and resurrection and His life’s purpose so that we may pass it on to others. Not only passing it on to other but to make disciples and baptize them in the His name, the Fathers name, and the Holy Spirits name. He entrusted us with the most important mission in human history, the mission of spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

It is our life’s calling to model our lives after Christ and bring honor and glory to His name. Out of that one form of witness is born, our lives as witness. If we live our lives to honor Christ in all that we do, people will notice. The second form of witness is with our tongue. If we live our lives to honor Christ in all that we do and proclaim His Gospel, then we are fulfilling our calling and the mission He entrusted to us.

That is our calling as Christians and that is our mission. To live this mission is to live a life that glorifies Jesus and brings honor to the Father. He is worthy of everything that we have to offer and to live a life for Him will mean living a life with purpose.

Tune in next week as we continue our blog series on Living the Mission. This week we covered “What Mission?” and next week will cover the question, “Why the Mission?”

-J.N.