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| Text: Romans 12:1-8
Theme: The necessity of living our lives in community as "living sacrifices for God." | | |
| December 31st New Year's Eve
Should we meet for some reflection time?
Perhaps we can use a theme around "New Year's Values: Faith, Love, and Hope"
Live by faith
Be Known by love
Serve as a Voice of Hope for Others
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| January 7th -- Learning to Trust God
Key Scripture: Gen 3:1-8
Theme: To live the life that God has called us to demands that we believe and live as though God has our best interests at heart. | | |
| Theme: Living a life in community, following up on the message of
December 3rd. That we have been created for so much more.
Main ideas - "Communities" exist everywhere. We are a part of many of
these "communities." We are born into community. We are born for a
particular community.
Uncommon Commune, December 17th
1 Corinthians 14-27
14 Now the body is not made up of one part but of many.
15 If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not
belong to the body," it would not for that reason cease to be part of
the body.
16 And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not
belong to the body," it would not for that reason cease to be part of
the body.
17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of
hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of
smell be?
18 But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be.
19 If they were all one part, where would the body be?
20 As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
21 The eye cannot say to the hand, "I don't need you!" And the head cannot say to the feet, "I don't need you!"
22 On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,
23 and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with
special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with
special modesty,
24 while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God
has combined the members of the body and has given greater honor to the
parts that lacked it,
25 so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other.
26 If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
27 Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.
Messenger: Stephen
Songs: - A little help here. . . Dan?
Prayer: - One of the thrusts of this will be the idea that community
forms around something be it an idea or a person or a place. Christian
community forms around Christ. That being so faithful prayers from
Christians from all times and places are prayers of the community and
have been said for the community. I think it would be cool to have
prayers from communities past and present throughout. They don't have
to be in English either and it would be cool if we had some that
weren't. Help here would be nice too, does anyone have any prayers they
are particularly fond of?
Creative Elements: I'd like to have more prayers available than are
prayed during the service - with a date/location/originator so that
during response time or afterward people can browse them. This is all I
have at the moment - anyone have any other ideas? I have some ideas of
an interactivity or two in the back of my brain but they aren't fully
formulated yet.
Response Time: 2.3 seconds if I'm fully awake.
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| Theme: Living a life of mission, following up on the message of December 3rd. That we have been created for so much more.
Unexpected Surprises, December 10th
Matthew 1:18-24... "24 When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife. 25 But he had no union with her until she gave birth to a son. And he gave him the name of Jesus."
Key Points of a missional life seen in Joseph: Discerning, Obedient, Self-denial. I will also be fleshing out characteristics of a carpenter. Any thoughts of using something at the response time that would tie back into this thought line would be helpful.
Messenger: Eric
Songs:
Prayer:
Creative Elements: Mission is an action word, so I thought it might be cool to have stations set up around the room behind curtains that everyone can walk through. (The curtains will circle around the actual worship gathering and then the stations can be set up behind those curtains, outside of the circle. I'll e-mail you a picture of what this will look like.) One station might have an action response related to mission, one might just be for reflection on what self-denial looks like, one station could be reading through a prayer geared toward obedience, etc. After I talk to Erik B. and fill out these ideas, I'll get back to you! Thx, Jackie
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