In the second week of our series, “Showing Up", we’ll look at showing up to each other in the key relational areas of our lives. You are a Father, you are a Mother, you are a Sister, you are a Brother, you are an Aunt, you are an Uncle, you are a Friend - and a bunch of other things. How are you intentionally bringing life to the people in your life? Do you care? It’s God’s intention that you bless others.

Jesus made a big deal of telling his disciples to “REmain in his love”. Why? Because once we begin to live the life that God has for us (and we start to get WELL), we can quickly believe that we don’t need God anymore and fall back into managing our own lives again. Like a vine trying to live without a root, or like a schizophrenic person who forgets their medication, our lives soon begin to wither and spiral. How do we REmain in Jesus’ love? Simple: we keep his commandments to love God everyday and to love others in the way that God loves us.

In Acts 9, we read about a wonderful woman named Dorcus. Luke tells us that she was always doing good and helping the poor. In this sense, being a disciple of Jesus is learning how to become a Dorcus; that is, to live a life of love consistently, practically and joyfully. We'll also celebrated the Lord Supper together.

Don’t let the funky title throw you. This is a sermon about how to make Jesus live in and through you in your everyday life. Roy Berkenbosch, of Kings University, will be sharing. Roy is a terrific preacher, so don’t miss what promises to be an amazing morning of worship.

One of the greatest victims of our success, especially here in the western world, is our relationships. Most of us are cash rich and relationship poor. What’s more, our relentless pursuit of success creates “walls of hostility” between various people groups. When we squabble to put ourselves first, like the church at Corinth, we destroy community. The solution: let Jesus lead us into a new community with different values and a different vision; a community united in him.