BINGO! #3 -- 092111 -- 'N' GO!

Isaiah 6:1-10 tells the story of Isaiah who encounters God.  At the end of the story God asks for someone to send, and Isaiah responds by saing, "Here am I, send me."  We have been tlaking about believing that the lost are lost and their only way to salvaiton is through Jesus.  Then we talkeda bout being ignited by the Holy Spirit to evangelize.  Tonight is the last step, 'n' go!  Matthew 28:18-20 is the words Jesus spoke to his disciples shortly before leaving this earth and he states, "Therefore, Go".  Because he is in charge and can grant forgiveness we are to GO!  WE have spent the last couple of weeks trying to convince you that you have a calling, a job from God, and that job is to be a missionary.  That is somene who goes and tells others about Jesus.  According to this scirputre God enats you to GO!  Stop sitting around and GO!  Stop with the good intetions and GO!  Stop thinking missions is a good ide and GO!  Don't just throw money at it and GO!  You believe and are ignited so it is time to GO!  Romans 10:13-15 tells us that people can not belive if they are never told and they will never be told if no one is ever sent.  We set up an easy opportunity for you to go this coming week, by being missionaries in your school by handing out Life Books.  So we challenge you, how many of you, like Isaiah are willing to say, "here am I, send me?" 

I give tonight: A+
Favorite Moment: GO!...but not like Samuel

BINGO! #2: Ignite -- 091411

Tonight we continued our series called BINGO! by looking at the letter I for ignite.  We started by talking about there needing to be three things in order for ignition to take place: oxygen, fuel, and heat.  Once there is enough oxygen and heat they will ignite the fuel.  This causes a chain reaction in which the fuel now provides the heat to continue ignited more fuel, all it needs is oxygen and more fuel to continue burning.  Jesus, after he died and rose again, appeared to his disciples one last time before going back into heaven.  In Acts 1:8 he tells them that there job will be to evangelize the whole world after he is gone but they won't have to do it on their own because they will recieve power when the Holy Spirit comes on them, an event we call baptism in the Holy Spirit.  They are indeed baptized and the church jumps to over 3000 in one day.  They were the fuel,t he oxygen was their belief that they had a job and that people were lost without Jesus, all they needed was a spark, heat!  And they got that in the form of the Baptism in the Holy Spirit.  The fuel was ignited and it burned brightly in their world, though not everyone was happy about it.  Later Peter and John, two of the disciples in charge of the church, were arrested for healing and speaking in the name of Jesus.  As they are brought back for judgement they are told they can't talk about Jesus any more, they reject this and go back to the other believers.  Tehy pray and are filled with the Holy Spirit and the bible says in acts 4:31 that after they were filled they went out speaking boldly (without fear!).  Why?  Because they had ignition, the Spirit had fille dhtme, he moved and compelled them to tell others. 

We need to reach our world with the gospel of Christ so that as many as are willing will be saved.  In order to do this we must:  #1.  Be the fuel, be willing to do the job God ahs called us to, to reach others for him.  #2.  Have oxygen, which is believeing that people are lost and that we have the one way of bringing them salvation.  #3.  Be ignited byt he heat source, the infilling of the Holy spirit.  You are the fuel, if you bleieve you have the oxygen, now you just need the heat applied so you can ignite!

I give tonight: A-
Favorite Moment: 20 minutes of small group time!

Bingo! #1: Believe -- 090711

Tonight we began our new series called Bingo!  in which we will discover our job to be missionaries to our world.  Tonight we started with Lacey speaking about how we have all be called to do a job, to spread the gospel in our world.  Then Pastor Alex jumped off this point by looking at Matthew 28:19 that states our job as going into the world to make disciples of Christ.  He then talked about the need to believe.  Our beliefs will alter our actions, and how much we bleive something will change the intesity of our actions.  We bleieve that Jesus is the only way to God and a realtionship with him.  We also believe that without Jesus a person is going to a place called hell after they die, which is not a good place but a place of eternal torment.  If we bleieve someone is going to hell, that hell is a horrible place, and that we have the only way to avoid it, what should we be doing?  We should be telling them about Jesus.  So how much do you believe?  And What are you going to do about it?

I give tonight: B
Favorite Moment: The introducation of the Life Book Saturation Week

Cranium #8 -- 083111: Communion

Tonight we finished off our summer long series called Cranium by looking at Communion.  Tonight was a group night, though we did a short sermon to start off with by looking at Ecclesiastes 3:1-11.  In this message we talke dabout how life is full of beginnings and endings but that the one constant is that Christ walks beside us.  We said a sad goodbye to our graduated seniors as they set off to a new beginning in their life. 

I give tonight: A+
Favorite Moment: Kicking Megan in the Shin