Devoted Church

Devoted Church

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  • Healthy Church
    Start with Why?
    “Great companies inspire others by putting the Why (the purpose) before the How (the process), or the What (the product).”
    "We make great computers, beautifully designed, and user friendly.”
    How Apple really communicates from the Why:
    WHY? Everything we do, we believe in challenging the status quo, we believe in thinking differently.
    HOW? The way we challenge the status quo is by making our products beautifully designed, simple to use, and user friendly.
    WHAT? We just happen to make computers, iPad, iPhone.
    OUR WHY?
    To be a healthy, life-giving church that sees people thrive in Christ.
    PSALM 92:12-15
    The righteous thrive like a palm tree and grow like a cedar tree in Lebanon. Planted in the house of the Lord, they thrive in the courts of our God. They will still bear fruit in old age, healthy and green, to declare, “The Lord is just; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.”
    ROOTS
    COLOSSIANS 2:6-7
    So then, just as you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to walk in him, being rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, and overflowing with gratitude.
    GROWTH
    COLOSSIANS 1:5-6
    You have already heard about this hope in the word of truth, the gospel that has come to you. It is bearing fruit and growing all over the world, just as it has among you since the day you heard it and came to truly appreciate God’s grace.
    - A healthy church grows because healthy things grow
    FRUIT
    MATTHEW 7:17
    So, every healthy tree bears good fruit
    PRUNING
    JOHN 15:2
    Every branch in me that does not produce fruit he removes, and he prunes every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce more fruit.
    - Healthy things grow, but growing things change
    SEASONS
    ECCLESIASTES 3:1-2
    For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven... A time to plant and a time to harvest.
    MATTHEW 9:37
    The harvest is great, but the workers are few.
    WHAT CAN I DO?
    1. STAY PLANTED
    PSALM 92:12-15
    The righteous thrive like a palm tree and grow like a cedar tree in Lebanon. Planted in the house of the Lord, they thrive in the courts of our God.
    - Bloom where you are planted.
    2. SOW
    2 CORINTHIANS 9:5-8,10-12
    Therefore I considered it necessary to urge the brothers to go on ahead to you and arrange in advance the generous gift you promised, so that it will be ready as a gift and not as an extortion. The point is this: The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously will also reap generously. Each person should do as he has decided in his heart—not reluctantly or out of compulsion, since God loves a cheerful giver.
    Thrive: Sowing Campaign
    - 250K to Improve Our: Facilities and Online Ministry
    3. PRAY
    49 min
  • Healthy Church
    Start with Why?
    “Great companies inspire others by putting the Why (the purpose) before the How (the process), or the What (the product).”
    "We make great computers, beautifully designed, and user friendly.”
    How Apple really communicates from the Why:
    WHY? Everything we do, we believe in challenging the status quo, we believe in thinking differently.
    HOW? The way we challenge the status quo is by making our products beautifully designed, simple to use, and user friendly.
    WHAT? We just happen to make computers, iPad, iPhone.
    OUR WHY?
    To be a healthy, life-giving church that sees people thrive in Christ.
    PSALM 92:12-15
    The righteous thrive like a palm tree and grow like a cedar tree in Lebanon. Planted in the house of the Lord, they thrive in the courts of our God. They will still bear fruit in old age, healthy and green, to declare, “The Lord is just; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.”
    ROOTS
    COLOSSIANS 2:6-7
    So then, just as you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to walk in him, being rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, and overflowing with gratitude.
    GROWTH
    COLOSSIANS 1:5-6
    You have already heard about this hope in the word of truth, the gospel that has come to you. It is bearing fruit and growing all over the world, just as it has among you since the day you heard it and came to truly appreciate God’s grace.
    - A healthy church grows because healthy things grow
    FRUIT
    MATTHEW 7:17
    So, every healthy tree bears good fruit
    PRUNING
    JOHN 15:2
    Every branch in me that does not produce fruit he removes, and he prunes every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce more fruit.
    - Healthy things grow, but growing things change
    SEASONS
    ECCLESIASTES 3:1-2
    For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven... A time to plant and a time to harvest.
    MATTHEW 9:37
    The harvest is great, but the workers are few.
    WHAT CAN I DO?
    1. STAY PLANTED
    PSALM 92:12-15
    The righteous thrive like a palm tree and grow like a cedar tree in Lebanon. Planted in the house of the Lord, they thrive in the courts of our God.
    - Bloom where you are planted.
    2. SOW
    2 CORINTHIANS 9:5-8,10-12
    Therefore I considered it necessary to urge the brothers to go on ahead to you and arrange in advance the generous gift you promised, so that it will be ready as a gift and not as an extortion. The point is this: The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously will also reap generously. Each person should do as he has decided in his heart—not reluctantly or out of compulsion, since God loves a cheerful giver.
    Thrive: Sowing Campaign
    - 250K to Improve Our: Facilities and Online Ministry
    3. PRAY
    49 min
  • RHYTHMS - Week 8

    RHYTHM OF REST

    Matthew 11:28-30 “Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.” (MSG)

    John 10:10 I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance.

    Genesis 2:1-3 So the heavens and the earth and everything in them were completed. On the seventh day God had completed his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, for on it he rested from all his work of creation.

    Exodus 20:8-11 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy: You are to labor six days and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. You must not do any work—you, your son or daughter, your male or female servant, your livestock, or the resident alien who is within your city gates. For the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and everything in them in six days; then he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and declared it holy.

    Shabbat: “to stop.”

    Mark 2:27-28 ”Then he told them, “The Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath. So then, the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”

    Why Practice the Rhythm of Resting?

    Reminds us of God’s Providence

    Psalm 46:10 Be still, and know that I am God

    Renews us Physically and Emotionally

    Picture: We are a triune being: body / soul (mind, will, emotions) / spirit. All three of these areas are connected together. If we don’t take care of them, the other areas can be effected.

    Isaiah 40:31 those who trust in the Lord will renew their strength; they will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not become weary, they will walk and not faint.

    3. Realigns us to God’s Pace

    "Hurry is the great enemy of spiritual life in our day. You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.” – Dallas Willard

    “If the devil can’t make you sin, he’ll make you busy.” - Corrie Ten Boom

    Hurry Sickness: epidemic characterized by continual rushing and anxiousness. Symptoms include: irritability, hypersensitivity, restlessness, workaholism, emotional numbness, out of order priorities, escapist behaviors (overeating, binging, social media), not practicing spiritual disciplines, & isolation

    4. Refuels our Passion

    Shabbat can also mean “to delight.”

    “The Sabbath is an invitation to enter delight. The Sabbath, when experienced as God intended, is the best day of our lives…Sabbath is the holy time where we feast, play, dance, sing, pray, laugh, tell stories, read, paint, walk, and watch creation in its fullness.” - Dan Allendar

    50 min

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We are a gospel-centered, multiethnic, and multigenerational community in Conyers, Georgia.