Our current series is entitled, The Church: Belong to Become. This week we will look at what it means to be a member of Christ’s body, the church, with a focus on spiritual gifts. Scripture tells us, For just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function. Every member has been given different spiritual gifts by God and has an important function in the church.

Five foundations of the Church.

Our current month long series is entitled, The Church: Belong to Become. This week we continue with looking at what it means to be a member of Christ’s body, the church. The Scriptures tell us, Now you are Christ’s body, and individually members of it. So, this week we will ask, what does it mean to be a member of Christ’s body and what is my part?

Our current month long series is entitled, The Church: Belong to Become. This week we continue with looking at the church's ministry. If our desire is to glorify God then our ministry as a church must not be one of condemnation, but of righteousness. For the ministry of righteousness brings transformation. This is what we all are in need of, to be changed. So, this week we look at the ministry of the church with its desire to see people changed.

This month we begin a new series entitled, The Church: Belong to Become. We begin with asking the question, Why does the Church exist? God loves the church and has a great purpose for it. This week we will unfold the glorious aim for which the church exists.

We continue to look at the life completely surrendered to Christ this week. This week we look to Genesis and the testimony of God’s faithfulness to His fallen creatures in the Garden of Eden. In this beginning book we see the outworking of God’s promise widen greatly with the life of Abram. Abram is a man of great faith, but he is also an ordinary guy who has struggles with fear and trust in the Lord. We see with Abram that there is a lifelong and daily journey and process of learning to surrender his will. Part of that process included for Abram is his lifestyle and its funding and so it is with us. We all have a certain lifestyle. What we like, our different taste in different things, habits, attitude and standards. That lifestyle has to be funded or supported, so the question for us is will we surrender our lifestyle support? How much? Will it just be certain areas or all of it?

We continue to look at the life completely surrendered to Christ this week. This week we look at the life of King Solomon. Solomon was a man of greater wisdom and riches than all the other kings of the world. His life was going good until he came to the big howevers in his life. This week we will see how a surrendered life can get derailed when we intermarry with the culture of the world. One thing that we will see is Solomon's lack of defense for the lives of children seen through his worship of the god of Molech. Today this translates to the issue of abortion. We cannot overlook this important calling that we have to be a voice for those in the womb. We look forward to having you on this Sunday, which is the Sanctity of Life Sunday.

The life surrendered to Christ trembles at God's Word. This week we look into how we approach the Word of God and what does it mean to tremble at it. Be encouraged this week to make the Word of God a priority in 2010.

The song, I Surrender All, has been sung for years in churches as an anthemn and declaration of the Christian life. What about today? Is the heart of that song the declaration of the church? Words like, all to Jesus I surrender, do they mark the Christian's life? The Christian life is a surrendered life to God, as both Savior and Lord. This week we begin with this month's challenge to truly live a surrendered life.

The Book of Acts describes the beginnings of the Church and the journey of those early church pioneers. The Holy Spirit-driven apostles and early church leaders were focused on one thing, the spread of the Gospel as the truth of God. Many miracles and events happened along the way, displaying the power of the Holy Spirit and the sovereignty of an almighty God. From this book we see the necessities of community, prayer, abiding in God’s Word and missional living as the key elements to a Christian life. For 2010, it is vital that we focus on the significance of community and its fundamental place in the Christian life and the Church. This Sunday we’ll take a look at community as portrayed in the book of Acts and share some practical ways we can be modeling that same Holy Spirit-driven life in 2010.