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This is Week 6 in a teaching series called Biblical Identity and Lifestyle of The Church. Today's teaching is by Jason English, Teaching and Vision Pastor at theHeart church in Boone, NC.

 

FAITH IN JESUS

This is Week 4 in a series titled Biblical Identity and Lifestyle of the Church. Today's teaching is by Jason English, Teaching and Vision Pastor at theHeart Church in Boone, NC.

 

The Church. A Continual Expansion of Love

This is Week 3 in a series titled Biblical Identity and Lifestyle of the Church. Today's teaching is on Baptism, taught by Jason English, Teaching and Vision Pastor at theHeart Church in Boone NC.

This Podcast is a tool to equip Volunteer Leaders and Coordinators at theHeart church in Boone, NC.

 

CREATE A TEAM CULTURE THAT IS WORTH BEING A PART OF

 

Creating a Culture: The 3 Cs

Communication

                Set expectations filtered through the vision.

                Follow Up

                Build Up

       2.  Consistency

                Communication on a regular basis.

                Create a system that works for you and use it.

                Be reliable in the way that you schedule, and if you can’t be - communicate! 

        3.  Community

                In the end, people invest in people, not systems.

                Foster community on your team.

                Lean on your co-coordinator.

 

Vision: Volunteering is a community-building spiritual discipline.

 

UP: We are attentive to God.  Whether serving through kind help (welcome, set up), teaching (kids ministry), or music (worship) we come to volunteering in a posture of worship. We volunteer as an act of worship, putting ourselves in God's presence through service. 

 

IN: We are attentive to each other. We volunteer in teams, lifting each other up. Volunteering is like a small-group, we share life together as we serve alongside one another. 

 

OUT: We are attentive to others. We welcome our church family and our community with our service. Volunteering builds and edifies, serving to simply facilitate being a family together around our loving God.

This is Week 2 of the series "Biblical Identity and Lifestyle of The Church" taught by Jason English, Teaching and Vision Pastor at theHeart church in Boone NC.

This is the first week of a new series called "Biblical Identity and Lifestyle of The Church" - taught by Jason English, Teaching and Vision Pastor at theHEART church in Boone, NC.

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Today is the final week in a 3 part series on Worship. Erin Deuel, Worship Director at theHeart church in Boone, NC leads us in corporate worship. 

 

Set List

Revelation Song - Jennie Lee Riddle - © 2004 Gateway Create Publishing

You Won't Relent - Cassandra Campbell, David Brymer, Misty Edwards - © 2007 Forerunner Worship

Come, Thou Fount - Robert Robinson - Public Domain

Sing to the Lord - Matt Crocker and Mike Guglielmucci - © 2008 Hillsong Music Publishing

Be Thou My Vision - Eleanor Henrietta Hull Mary Elizabeth Byrne Russell Mauldin - Public Domain

Our Father - Marcus Meier - © 2009 Forerunner Worship

This is Part 2 in a three-part series on Worship. Erin Deuel, Worship Director, talks about our identity in worship.

 

IDENTITY

 

"Even if a particular train of thought can be twisted so as to end in our favor, you will find that you have been strengthening in your patient the fatal habit of attending to universal issues and withdrawing his attention from the stream of immediate sense experiences. Your business is to fix his attention on the stream. Teach him to call it 'real life' and don't let him ask what he means by 'real'."

-C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

 

worship: shachah

to depress; to prostrate 

to bow down, crouch, fall down flat, humbly beseech, do obeisance, do reverence, worship

 

obeisance: a movement of the body made in token of respect or submission , or the acknowledgement of another's superiority of importance

 

If we create the vision, we're responsible for fulfilling the vision.

 

"Whenever they are attending to the Enemy Himself (God) we are defeated, but there are ways of preventing them from doing so. The simplest is to turn their gaze away from Him towards themselves. Keep them, watching their own minds and trying to produce feelings there by the action of their own wills. When they meant to ask Him for charity, let them, instead, start trying to manufacture charitable feelings for themselves and not notice that this is what they are doing. When they meant to pray for courage, let them really be trying to feel brave. When they say they are praying for forgiveness, let them be trying to feel forgiven."

-C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

 

You can't bear fruit apart from Him. You have to abide in Him.

-John 15:4

 

 

PSALM 139

You have searched me, Lord, and You know me.

You know when I sit and when I rise;

You preceive my thoughts from afar.

You discern my going out and my lying down;

You are familiar with all my ways.

Before a word is on my tongue You, Lord, know it completely.

You hem me in behind and before, and You lay your hand upon me.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.

For You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in Your book before one of them came to be. How precious to me are Your thoughts God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand - when I awake, I am still with You.

This is the first of a three-part series titled, What is Worship? Erin Deuel is the Worship Director at theHeart church in Boone, NC.

This is the final week in our series 150 Days of Psalms. Today's teaching is by Amanda Opelt. Amanda is a Ministry Leadership Team member at theHeart Church in Boone NC. She is also a singer, songwriter. Visit her website here.

 

 

WALTER BRUEGGEMANN

"The use of these 'psalms of darkness' may be judged by the world to be acts of unfaith and failure, but for the trusting community, their use is an act of bold faith, albeit a transformed faith. It is an act of bold faith on the one hand, because it insists that the world must be experienced as it really is and not in some pretended way. On the other hand, it is bold because it insists that all such experiences of disorder are a proper subject for discourse with God. Nothing is out of bounds, nothing is precluded or inappropriate.”

"To withhold parts of life from that conversation is in fact to withhold part of life from the sovereignty of God.  But such faith is indeed a transformed faith.  It is faith in a very differed God, one who is present in, participating in, and attentive of life.  The presupposition and affirmation of these psalms is that precisely in such deathly places as presented in these psalms, new life is given by God."

 

RE-ORIENTATION

Psalm 13: "But I trust in Your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in Your salvation. I will sing the Lord's praise, for He has been good to me."

Psalm 57: "Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let Your glory be over all the earth."

Psalm 69: "But as for me, afflicted and in pain–may your salvation, God, protect me. I will praise God's name in song and glorify Him with thanksgiving.

 

Psalms 146-150

"The transition marked by this upright line of a letter is always abrupt.  It indicates that somewhere, somehow an invisible line has been crossed and the focus of the lament has turned from the self to Elsewhere.  Sometimes it seems simply a matter of exhaustion.  I cannot bear the burden of my sin any longer.  I have not more tears left to weep,  I have no more outrage left to voice.  At other times the person lamenting simply seems to wake up.  It is the line that must be crossed from the sorrowful self-centered 'I,' 'me,' or 'mine' passages to the praise dominated 'You' verses when it has been at least realized that God is faithful."

 

 

MICHAEL CARD

"Like some sort of interior spiritual San Andreas Fault line, it represents the precise point where two continents have been rubbing up against one another - the huge island of self and vast uncharted and unknowable continent of God's Presence.  It is the line of momentous movement from 'me' to 'You.'  It is a signpost along the journey of the psalms, from Torah obedience (Psalm 1) to worship (Psalm 150)."

 

PSALM 148

Do I love God's presence?

Do I love God's law?

Do I love God's fame?