The filling of the Spirit increases your joy, increases your love, increases your worship and it spills over as the Proclamation of the Gospel.

We may not be ready for what God is going to do here, but prayer makes us ready and qualified leadership helps prepare us for what is to come.

“There is a tradition (it is not in the Bible) that the world said about the Christians in the early church, ‘Behold, how they love each other.’ As we read Acts and the epistles, we realize that these early Christians were really struggling for a practicing community. We realize that one of the marks of the early church was a real community, a community that reached down all the way to their care for each other in their material needs.” – Francis Schaeffer

"The Resurrection was not created by the Church; rather, the Church was created by the Resurrection." - Dr. Darrell Bock

Jesus is the Big Idea of Scripture. “The Resurrection was not created by the Church; rather, the Church was created by the Resurrection.” – Dr. Darrell Bock

the battile of the cross was fought & won on HIs knees in Gethsemane

A Christian use of power is to give it away – to surrender rights and privileges for the sake of others.

We have a responsibility to actively participate in corporate disciplines to help other Christians grow in a deeper and more spiritual relationship with God.

Disciplines bring about an Inward Reality that result in an Outward Lifestyle.

We need to learn to listen – “God spoke to [people in the Bible] not because they had special abilities, but because they were willing to listen.” – FosterHearing & Obeying – “Christian meditation, very simply, is the ability to hear God’s voice and obey his word. It is that simple.” – Foster