We must be aware of the effects the church can experience becoming disengaged. We become disengaged when we forget the love of God in our life.

We can do all the right things, for the wrong reasons. And if we do not remember the right reasons, all the things we do will feel wrong, and thus become wrong.

We often think about the great commission being about evangelism (Telling people about Jesus) and the outcome to bring salvation. But the great commission is far harder, as it’s about discipleship, and the sanctification of new believers which people feel even less equipped to do - Release is Hard.

Our goal is to be a church that does reward just memorizing a bunch of Bible verses. Our desire is for each one of us to always be Building in our knowledge of the Bible. We want to be a church community that is always building DISCIPLES THAT ARE ALWAYS SHINING BRIGHTER INTO OTHERS.

Continuing on how we get engaged in the Body we will pick up on Recognize and we will move to CONNECT.

Once we RECOGNIZE who HE is we who KNOW who we are in HIM and we can RESPOND by following HIM and RECOGNIZING the value in others.

We all know what it feels like to be incomplete. Something just isn’t right. Sometimes we know what it is- We could feel complete without a spouse, a job that gives us purpose, a task for the day. And sometimes we don’t know we are incomplete, but we don’t know what it is. In our sermon series ‘Engage,” we want to focus in on the idea that we need each other to be “functioning parts of the body,” if we are to be complete- we MUST realize we are needed by others to fully engage in the church for the Body of Christ to be complete.

Kick off to Sermon series called “I’m Engaged.” Being engaged is something almost all people either want to do, have been, or remember when we were engaged and look back at that time with fondness because we have disengaged. It generally is a time when we were in a special type of love with each other where we always enjoy being together, and there is little to no fighting that can’t be overcome. In this series we are going to discuss being engaged with God, our faith and His Church. Then we will discuss how we can get engaged; recognize, connect, build, release.