Ponte Vedra church aspires to fill generation gap
AT its start, this 3-year-old congregation had only four members. Today it boasts more than 60 congregants and strives to help residents know Christ, grow in Christ and serve Christ. Its Sunday services are meant for worship, its small groups are meant for growth and its community projects are meant for service. Loy works to ensure that each of these goals includes something for church members of all ages. Loy considers the church’s relaxed view toward communion — which is open to all believers in Christ — as one of the more progressive policies meant to welcome people to the church. Blended Sunday services — which include traditional hymns, contemporary praise songs and personal storytelling — are also meant to appeal to both young and old churchgoers.Growing In Christ - News
Friends are an indispensable part of growing in Christ. So why do many of us have so few? Some years ago, following an act of civil disobedience, I spent several days in a makeshift jail with hundreds of women protesters. Before long, a couple of them
Today it boasts more than 60 congregants and strives to help residents know Christ, grow in Christ and serve Christ. Its Sunday services are meant for worship, its small groups are meant for growth and its community projects are meant for service.
The Walnut Street Church of Christ is fulfilling a little-known need in Dickson County. Its homeless missions have a waiting list, and expansion could help the church serve many more people. The mission provides housing for both men and women with
NORTH SHELBY – Eleven little girls in bright yellow shirts emblazoned with a cross and sunflowers sat cross-legged on the floor as they listened to a Bible lesson on July 10. Martha Shaw led the girls through a
Any church that proclaims the Word you proclaim is stuck in the Old Testament and has not learned, nor do you practice the teachings of Jesus Christ. Salvation comes by believing in Jesus Christ and growing to live like him in all ways.
Four Levels of Fruitfulness — Frank Damazio
It’s summer time, and if you’ve been gardening at all, you are probably seeing some fruit materializing from those vines and branches. How satisfying is it to pick those juicy, plump strawberries from the vine and savor their sweet flavor? The taste is satisfying because you put labor into that fruit. You spent time watering it, making sure it was positioned just right to receive enough sunlight; you trimmed the branches growing wild, and patiently waited for the fruit to mature so that it could be picked and consumed. Just as you care for your garden, God cares about your personal growth. He carefully planned when you were going to be born, what family to place you with, and He has been pruning the unhealthy fruit in your life to make way for the healthy and enduring fruit. God’s desire for your life is that it would produce healthy, abundant, and lasting fruit. What exactly is this fruit and how do you live a life that produces fruit the way God wants you to produce? In Luke 3:8, Jesus commands us to “bear fruits worthy of repentance.” This fruit involves growing past your “stuck” places and expressing deep, real change that reflects you have been transformed on the inside. God’s energizing Holy Spirit is working in you. Repentance is an outward change of direction, motivated by an inward change of heart. We should all bear fruits of repentance, actively obeying God’s instruction when He convicts our hearts. A fruit tree does not freeze in its growing state after it produces one piece of fruit, but progresses toward producing more. Paul encourages believers to be “fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,” indicating that we should continually bear fruit as we walk with God (Colossians 1:10). More fruit is possible as one grows in Christ and in the Spirit. Growing in grace, we come to the point where we reach our capacity and can no longer push out fruit with our own strength. At that place, we let God, our Source and Creator, step in with His power and life-giving water. What results is more fruit than we could hope to yield in our own strength. We are not the source and we do not depend on ourselves to bear fruit. From the position of abiding in Christ flows good fruit. You are probably familiar with the fruit of the Spirit listed in Galatians: “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control” (5:22-23). Much fruit is the result of abiding in Christ, pruning, being filled with the Spirit, growing in the Word, praying, and living a Spirit-filled life. Being filled with the spirit’s activity causes an overflow of new fruit so that your life produces “much fruit.” Your fruit is not just for you. To be truly biblical as well as truly effective, the growth process must include the people around you, especially the body of Christ. Just as you pass on your DNA to your children, the “fruit of the womb” (Psalm 127:3), so are you to birth spiritual fruit in others. These are the lessons learned from past mistakes, trials, and experiences. Fruit birthed by the Holy Spirit is lasting fruit.
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RT @: Spiritual progress is marked by a growing confidence in Christ's finished work for us, not a growing confidence in our work for him.
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Temptation simply provides a choice. Every time you choose to do good instead of sin, you're growing in the character of Christ.
Growing in the knowledge of Christ and the gospel should lead us to be a better worshipper, not a better person.Growing In Christ - Bookshelf
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