Got Life - June 2011 New Life Temple Church Newsletter

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Got Life A newsletter about spiritual enrichment for the Body of Christ

A Monthly Newsletter Knowing The Time

What’s Going On The monthly calendar, birthdays and anniversaries, and Daniel’s Fast resource information. Page 3

An address from the Senior Pastor. Page 2

Words From Our Ministries. Page 5

The Lite Side

Christmas seems like it just happened, yet it seems so far in the future. It’s the one time of the year when we spend some time talking about Jesus, the Christ. But what about the rest of the time? What about during the week? We spend weeks, starting with Black Friday, celebrating and buying things for the Christmas Season. But how much is really spent celebrating Jesus? About as much as we spend each day or week of our lives celebrating Him. April

Church Information NLTC ministry staff, service information and statement of faith. Page 10

The Lite Side Biblical principles through humor Page 9

We come to His house to show off our looks, our goodness, our....But how much of us will we loose to Him in celebration of His love and favor towards us?

Celebrating Him Instead of You We have arrived at the end of the first half of the new year. I’m sure many of us have spent around a few times wondering where the other five months went so fast.

April ’11

You see often times we spend more time celebrating us, than we do Jesus. We will spend $200 on an outfit for church, but give God $25 in the offering. We will spend all Saturday having fun, instead of preparing our hearts to be open to Him on the coming day. We will take hours getting ready (yes men do it too) but only want to give Him 35 minuets of mediocre praise. Worship is an extra expense we have to spiritually budget for. And we will lend the speaker 30minuets, 45 if they are really good according to our opinion. But when do we really celebrate Jesus?

People will joke all week about stuff that should have never even entered their mind, but will collect dust on a pew while looking like someone has deprived them of their free time. I have to wonder if God is asking, “when will you ever celebrate me?” He gives us 7 days a week, with 24 hours in each of them. How many of them will we spend for the next 6 months celebrating Him? Don’t let celebrating Christ be confined to Christmas or Sundays. Mel A. Perry. Mel serves as Global Relations Director and Assistant Pastor of NLTC

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