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MEN’S FELLOWSHIP BREAKFAST – AUGUST 18TH
August 12, 2012 We are so glad you are here today! We invite you to sit back, relax and enjoy the service. We want to make your visit to LIFEPOINTE Church very special – and here’s how: You can trust your children (from birth – grade 6) to our AngelPointe and KidzPointe teams. AngelPointe provides quality, loving care for your little ones from nursery to preschool. An atmosphere of fun and belonging has been created in our KidzPointe classes to make your child feel welcome. Any of our greeters can direct you to the children’s area. If you decide to keep your infant or young child with you during the service, please note that the restrooms are outside the back door of the auditorium on the left. Please use the WELCOME card to request any further information about our church or to communicate with us. You can drop it in the offering basket at the end of the service. Please have confidence that no one will drop by your home or call you without being asked. Take advantage of the message notes on the back page of this program. You can use these outline notes to follow along with today’s message.
NEED HELP? HAVE QUESTIONS? LET US KNOW All of us at LifePointe are here to help you in any way we can. If you need anything or if we can answer your questions, please let us know. Our friendly staff of volunteers stand ready to help you and your family. LifePointe volunteers are available throughout the campus. You can use your LifePointe “WELCOME” card (inside this program) to request help or information about specific ministries and programs offered at LifePointe.
Because Of Your Love Audience All My Fountains Audience Here In Your Presence Audience Your Love Never Fails Audience
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IN 2 WEEKS – REACHING OUT TO OUR COMMUNITY
Message Pastor Chuck Bernal Offering Here With Me Reprise Because Of Your Love
VOLUNTEERS STILL NEEDED IN ANGELPOINTE
LOL EVENT FOR AUGUST
NEXT SUNDAY – OUR “MESSY” SERIES CONTINUES Join us next weekend as Pastor Chuck continues his message series titled, “MESSY”. This series is all about cleaning up some of the misconceptions and erroneous ideas we have about God, faith and life. Don’t miss Part 4 of this series titled, “A MESSY VIEW OF CHURCH”. Please be here and bring a friend!
MESSY SERIES PART 3: A MESSY VIEW OF SALVATION
nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. (1 Corinthians 6:9-11 – NIV)
“Not everyone who calls out to me, ‘Lord! Lord!’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Only those who actually do the will of my Father in heaven will enter. On judgment day many will say to me, ‘Lord! Lord! We prophesied in your name and cast out demons in your name and performed many miracles in your name.’ But I will reply, ‘I never knew you. Get away from me, (Matthew 7:21-23 – NLT)
Those who live in Christ don't go on sinning. Those who go on sinning haven't seen or known Christ. Dear children, don't let anyone deceive you . . . The person who lives a sinful life belongs to the devil, because the devil has been committing sin since the beginning. The reason that the Son of God appeared was to destroy what the devil does. Those who have been born from God don't live sinful lives. What God has said lives in them, and they can't live sinful lives. They have been born from God. This is the way God's children are distinguished from the devil's children. Everyone who doesn't do what is right or love other believers isn't God's child. (1 John 3:6-10 – GW)
SALVATION: MESSY VIEWS OF HOW WE GET IT
vThe world around us isn’t asking, “Is Christianity ____________?” but
MESSY SALVATION
rather “Does Christianity _________?” and we’ve got to show them it does!
ISSUE: We think that salvation is something we can achieve on our own
What counts is whether we really have been changed into new and different people. May God’s mercy and peace be upon all those who live by this principle. They are the new people of God. (Galatians 6:14-16 - NLT)
vMessy Mentality 1: “______________________________________” to get to heaven
For I was born a sinner--yes, from the moment my mother conceived me. (Psalm 51:5 – NLT) Everyone has sinned and fallen short of God's glorious standard. (Romans 3:23- NCV) Anyone who tries to keep all of the Law but fails at one point is guilty of failing to keep all of it. (James 2:10 – CEB) vMessy Mentality 2: “_____________________________________” to get to heaven
You can laugh at Christianity. You can mock and ridicule it. But it works. It changes lives. If you trust Christ, start watching your attitudes and actions because Jesus Christ is in the business of changing lives. (Josh McDowell)
We're all sin-infected, sin-contaminated. Our best efforts are grease-stained rags. (Isaiah 64:6 – Msg) All of us have been sinful; even our best actions are filthy through and through. (Isaiah 64:6 – GNB
SALVATION – CLEANING UP THE MESS
God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. (Ephesians 2:8-9 – NLT)
v_______________________________ vs. _____________________________
SALVATION: MESSY VIEWS OF HOW WE LIVE IT "I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please; not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep, but just enough to equal a cup of warm milk or a snooze in the sunshine. I don't want enough of Him to make me love a black man or pick beets with a migrant. I want the warmth of a womb, not a new birth. I want a pound of the eternal in a paper sack. I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please."
He saved us because of his mercy, not because of any good things we did. (Titus 3:5 – ERV) v_______________________________ vs. _____________________________
He gave the right and the power to become children of God to those who received Him. (John 1:12 – NLV) v_______________________________ vs. _____________________________
ISSUE: We claim to know Christ, but we go on living the same way we always have.
Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in. (Revelation 3:20 – NCV)
vMessy Mentality 1: ________________________ vs. _________________________
These words I speak to you are not incidental additions to your life, homeowner improvements to your standard of living. They are foundational words, words to build a life on. (Matthew 7:24 – Msg) vMessy Mentality 2: ________________________ vs. _________________________
I'll pour pure water over you and scrub you clean. I'll give you a new heart, put a new spirit in you. I'll remove the stone heart from your body and replace it with a heart that's God-willed, not self-willed. I'll put my Spirit in you and make it possible for you to do what I tell you and live by my commands. (Ezekiel 36:26-27 – Msg)
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vThe “genuine label” of Christianity is a _________________________________ life!
Chuck Bernal, Lead Pastor
This same Good News that came to you is going out all over the world. It is changing lives everywhere, just as it changed yours that very first day you heard and understood the truth about God's great kindness to sinners. (Colossians 1:6 – NLT)
Melora Cranford, KidzPointe - Mike Cranford, LifeGroups Jon DeGuzman, Worship - Virginia Werlwas, Administration
What this means is that those who become Christians become new persons. They are not the same anymore, for the old life is gone. A new life has begun! (2 Corinthians 5:17 – NLT)
Debbie West, AngelPointe - Jon West, Students
Whenever anybody meets Jesus, they are never the same again!
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vYou _______________ be a Christian & stay the ___________ as you’ve always been
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves