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Introduction
We are beginning a new series this week, Alignment.
I would like to introduce this series for us.
I am excited that I get to be with you today and bring this message.
We are expecting the arrival of our little girl this week.
Whenever she comes I will be taking a paternity leave.
I will take two weeks off from weekly responsibilities and 4 weeks off total from preaching.
I am excited to have Chris, Burt, and Stacey Sweet preach and speak into this series for Vine community.
This series is an important one for us as we talk about alignment.
How do we align together and align with God for what He wants to do.
That is why today we will talk about prayer and fasting to begin.
So that is the context for our text today.
Let’s begin there and I will say more about the series as we begin.
(NIV)
Isaiah 58
True Fasting
58 “Shout it aloud, do not hold back.
Raise your voice like a trumpet.
Declare to my people their rebellion
and to the descendants of Jacob their sins.
2 For day after day they seek me out;
they seem eager to know my ways,
as if they were a nation that does what is right
and has not forsaken the commands of its God.
They ask me for just decisions
and seem eager for God to come near them.
3 ‘Why have we fasted,’ they say,
‘and you have not seen it?
Why have we humbled ourselves,
and you have not noticed?’
“Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please
and exploit all your workers.
4 Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife,
and in striking each other with wicked fists.
You cannot fast as you do today
and expect your voice to be heard on high.
5 Is this the kind of fast I have chosen,
only a day for people to humble themselves?
Is it only for bowing one’s head like a reed
and for lying in sackcloth and ashes?
Is that what you call a fast,
a day acceptable to the Lord?
6 “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:
to loose the chains of injustice
and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free
and break every yoke?
7 Is it not to share your food with the hungry
and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—
when you see the naked, to clothe them,
and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
8 Then your light will break forth like the dawn,
and your healing will quickly appear;
then your righteousness will go before you,
and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.
9 Then you will call, and the Lord will answer;
you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.
“If you do away with the yoke of oppression,
with the pointing finger and malicious talk,
10 and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry
and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,
then your light will rise in the darkness,
and your night will become like the noonday.
11 The Lord will guide you always;
he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land
and will strengthen your frame.
You will be like a well-watered garden,
like a spring whose waters never fail.
12 Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins
and will raise up the age-old foundations;
you will be called Repairer of Broken Walls,
Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.
13 “If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath
and from doing as you please on my holy day,
if you call the Sabbath a delight
and the Lord’s holy day honorable,
and if you honor it by not going your own way
and not doing as you please or speaking idle words,
14 then you will find your joy in the Lord,
and I will cause you to ride in triumph on the heights of the land
and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob.”
For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
Isaiah 58:
Pray.
In prayer our pastoral team were led to this series in a beautiful way.
We are experiencing something special at KUMC and we were trying to find the pulse.
Where God led us was to this series.
We found that in the seasons where we were aligned, as a staff, as a church, with God were the healthiest seasons.
Right?
Particularly we found that when worship, discipleship, and mission are aligned at our church then things are healthy.
This series will look at these aspects of our church but to also importantly look at how they should not be separated from each other.
Today I though I would begin with a state of the union so to speak:
Worship:
We have seen steady growth in worship attendance across the campus for years now.
Our average now is over 1200 people per sunday across Sanctuary, Vine, Loft, Refugio.
The addition of Ryan and Matt Robinson, the director of all things traditional worship has been such a blessing.
It took time to hire those two guys and it was because God was pressing us to make the right hire.
Let me talk about Vine worship in specific:
from 50 to 400 a week. 1 service to 2
Over 50 volunteers involved in the weekly service
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