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Worship - June 2019

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Church Family,

I pray that the start of summer has found you well, and I hope you’re having a great time with your family and friends. I wanted to take some time this month to invite you and encourage you to take part in our Summer Discipleship Classes, which will take place on Sunday nights, starting in July. This will be a time of encouragement and study through different classes and different topics. I am leading a class called, “Worship Matters.” In this class, we are going to dive in and study what it looks like to be a biblical worshiper, and worship leader. This class will be geared toward those in our church who have a desire for worship ministry and leading others in worship, but it’s also designed for anyone interested in the topic of worship, and the role that worship plays in our lives.

Are you involved in the worship ministry of our church? This class is for you. We are going to study what it means to worship and lead worship not only with our skills, but most importantly our hearts and lives. We are going to look at how worship shapes our lives both on stage, but most importantly off stage. We will be talking about the role that our hearts and our minds play in worship leading. We’re going to talk about skill. We’re going to talk about planning worship, and how we get to the place where God is leading us to sing songs every Sunday.

But you may ask the question, “What if I’m not involved in the worship ministry of our church?” This class is still for you! We are ALL worshipers. We all lead worship in someway, whether that’s musically or in our every day lives. We’re going to study what it means to be a true worshiper of Christ. So even if you are not involved in leading musical worship, I fully believe you will be encouraged in your faith greatly through this study.

And lastly, there will be three other classes led during this time, and I hope you’ll choose one of them to be a part of. The season of summer often offers more time for us to pray, and reflect. These Summer Discipleship Classes will challenge us to grow greatly in our faith, and I pray that we all take advantage of it. Until then, we’ll worship together every Sunday. I hope and pray to see you there.

In Christ,
Jared

 

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Worship - May 2019

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Church Family,

What a great time this past month has been! We had a great Easter weekend filled with much fellowship and worship. God is moving in our Church, and I am so thankful to be able to experience it with you all. Thank you for singing. One of the greatest aspects of corporate worship is that we get to come together as the Church, and we worship in  unity. The reality is that every Sunday, each one of us comes to worship with a different story. Our lives are unique from one another, and we all bear different burdens. My life is telling a different story than your life, and your life is telling a different story than mine.

But the great thing about Corporate Worship is that we all get to bring our stories to the same place, together. We all have a song to sing, and we get to sing that song together. Isaiah 55:1 says, “Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy, and eat!.” Remember this week, no matter your story, there’s room for you at the table of God, and my prayer for all of us is that we would, “taste and see that the Lord is good”, as Psalm 34:8 says. We all come to the same place at the cross.

We are all constant worshippers. Every second of our day, we are worshipping something. The unfortunate reality is that sometimes, we bend our worship towards things that aren't meant to be worshipped. Actually, there is nothing on this earth that is meant for our worship. God alone is worthy and deserving our worship, and he deserves all if. Is your story worshipping God? After all, he’s the   author of your story. We would be nothing and have nothing without Him.

I encourage you, in your own life, point your story to the Cross, and come and worship with us on Sundays, as we bring our stories to the same place, where we focus on the Cross, and sing in response to what Christ has done for us.

In Christ,
Jared

 

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