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Have you ever gone to a restaurant and gotten bad service? Maybe the person waiting on you had a bad attitude or maybe they just didn’t seem to care what kind of service they gave. That can be frustrating, can’t it? But have you ever stopped to think about your service to the Lord? Maybe you've never thought of service as a discipline before, but Pastor Clay teaches us today, just like the other disciplines we've discussed, service has to be built into our lives or we run the risk of letting the busyness of life push our service to God out.

Ask enough people who don’t attend church why they don’t attend and sooner or later you’ll hear somebody say, “All they talk about at church is money.” Talking about people and their money can be a touchy subject, but does that mean a church should never talk about money? Would it surprise you to know that the Bible talks about money quite a bit? Obviously, money is an important part of our lives and knowing what God expects us to do with it is important if we're going to continue to move forward in our desire to become fully devoted followers of Jesus.

We’ve been looking at the different dimensions of a fully-devoted follower of Jesus and one of those dimensions is discipline. As disciples of Jesus Christ we need to build certain spiritual disciplines into our life in order to grow in our walk and today Pastor Clay challenges us with the discipline of the word of God. As Pastor Clay is going to show us, the 119th Psalm teaches us some important principles concerning the word of God that will help us build the discipline of studying the word of God into our lives.

Today Pastor Clay continues his teaching on the various disciplines that should be built into the life of a fully-devoted follower of Jesus by looking at the discipline of fasting. In many respects fasting seems to have become the lost discipline of a believer in Christ, but as Pastor Clay is going to explain today, fasting should still be a vital past of our lives.

Last week we began our study of the second dimension of a 3D follower of Jesus and that is discipline. Unless you build the disciplines of a fully-devoted follower of Jesus into your life, you’ll never really follow Him. Today we continue our study of the of the discipline of prayer by looking at two more practical aspects of prayer, the purpose of prayer and the product of prayer.

Today Pastor Clay continues his series entitled, ‘Cross Culture in 3D: So real you can touch it.’ It’s a series designed to make our walk with Christ come alive. The series is centered around three crucial dimensions to being a fully-devoted follower of Jesus, desire, disicpline, and duplication. Today, we move into the area of disciplines in our life and the first one we're going to talk about is prayer. As you'll hear Pastor Clay say today, statistics show that the average Christian only spends about a minute a day praying. That's not very much time for something that most of us would agree should be an important part of our lives.

Today we begin a brand new series here at Cross Culture Church entitled, ‘Cross Culture in 3D: So real you can touch it!’ Over the next several weeks Pastor Clay is going to walk us through what he calls the 3D’s of a disciple, or as we like to say around here, a fully-devoted follower of Jesus. Those 3D's represent, desire, discipline, and duplication. All three are cruicial in the life of a diciple of Christ. Today Pastor Clay is going to help us understand the first dimension of being a fully-devoted follower of Jesus, desire. We're glad you've joined us for this exciting series as we learn how to make our walk with Jesus so real people can reach out and touch it.

This week, Pastor Clay and Dr. Erik Clary continue their round table discussion on life and ethics talking about stem cell research and birth control from a Biblical point of view.

Abortion, euthanasia, stem cell research.  How are followers of Jesus to approach such hot-button topics in our world today? What does the Bible have to say about these and other ethical issues dealing with life?  Gaining biblical knowledge doesn’t make any difference if it doesn't effect the decisions and actions of our lives and this week, Pastor Clay sits down with our resident ethicist, Dr. Erik Clary, to discuss some of these topics that are so important for our culture and helps us understand the importance of ethics in our daily decision making process.

As we come today to the last section of chapter 22 the question becomes, “so what?” As you’ll hear today Pastor Clay is going to challenge us to ask ourselves that very question in light of what we’ve discovered in the book of Revelation. How does what we've learned matter? What are we going to do with what we've learned? Will our lives be different as a result of this study? These are questions worth asking ourselves as followers of Jesus.