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After our service today, we’ll have our annual business meeting and discuss the in’s and out’s of our church’s operations, our budget and plans for the next year.
We hope that all of you would stay and participate in the conversation whether you are a member or not.
These four words: Worship, Serve, Grow, Tell summarize what we believe are the central things that a church should be about and should be doing.
This list is not a list for our leadership team, it is a list for all of us, as we’ll see this morning, God’s Word is full of references to these 4 activities.
We are pausing this week from a series of messages about awakening and revival.
We’ll pick that message series up in two weeks.
My prayer, the prayer of our elder board and hopefully the collective prayer of this church is that both would happen.
First revival in our personal lives and our churches and then awakening in the culture.
Just so we don’t lose sight of the 5 signs of true God centered revival, here is the list:
When esteem for the true Jesus is raised
When Satan’s kingdom is attacked (sin and worldly lusts)
When people come to love Scripture more
When men are led away from falsehood to truth (sound doctrine)
When there is an increase of love to God and man
As we look at our four pillar areas of our church’s vision, you’ll see some parallels:
Worship God and Jesus - #1
Serve Those in Need - #5
Grow in Faith Together - #2, 3, 4
Tell others about Jesus - #4
Worship God and Jesus
In the old testament, there are 2 Hebrew words that are translated into our word worship:
bd (O-vad (50 of 172) - 285 total in OT
to work or cultivate
serve/work for a master as a slave
do service, perform rites for
More than worship, this word is translated to serve as in
The other word most often translates worship in the OT is
hwh (head-va-feh) (70 of 172) - 170 total in OT
bow down deeply
pay homage, worship, adore, revere, honor, submission, respect
More than half of the root meaning of worship in the old testament is summed up in these 2 Hebrew words that mean to serve and to bow down.
In the New Testament, the Greek word most translated into worship is the word proskyneo.
The literal meaning of this word is to bow down.
It is a term that describes a physical posture or position.
Jesus even makes a distinction about worship when he speaks with the woman at the well.
She bring up worship and here is what He teaches:
vs 21 - bowing down won’t happen on a mountain nor in Jerusalem
vs 22 - Samaritans bow down to what they do not know, but Jews worship and bow to the one true God, but there is a transition coming…a new teaching from Jesus about worship...
vs 23 - From the time of Jesus and ongoing, worship will happen in Spirit and truth because...
vs 24 - God is spirit - the bowing down happens within our spirit and it happens in truth.
The world worships worldly things and “bows” down to them with their time and effort.
A priority is placed on those things as that is what is perceived to have value.
The things the world worships is things that can be seen.
Even the Jews worshipped what they could see…the temple, the ark of the covenant, but Jesus says that worship will happen in spirit.
Spirit cannot be seen and Jesus is talking about a time that true worshippers would worship that which they cannot see.
The world worships lots of things they cannot see…comfort, power, significance and so on, but those things are not truth.
Only Jesus is the truth that the Father sent to us.
In John 14:6 He says
As worshippers in Spirit and in truth, we worship that which we cannot see, but that which is the Truth.
So how do we worship like this?
First let me remind us of the root meaning of the words translated worship in the Bible:
Serve, work, revere, bow down
And Jesus tells us to do these things in Spirit and in Truth.
So anytime we serve, we work, we revere or spiritually bow we are worshipping.
This is happening right now as we set aside time to work through his word to us.
Worship happens when we stand and bow within our spirit and sing of his goodness, when we sing that there’s nothing better than Him.
Worship happens when we serve one another and the world around us.
That brings us to the second thing that we do as Crossroads Christian Church.
First we
Worship God and Jesus
Serve Those In Need
Jesus spoke of the importance of this in Matthew 25.
Turn there with me if you have your Bibles.
He separates out those who did this from those who did not.
When we have a faith in Jesus, we can’t help but to serve those with a need.
Let’s read starting in verse 35:
So many times Jesus went out of his way to help those he saw in need.
We don’t have to look far to see where people are in need.
Here are just a few I jotted down:
Food
shelter
Provisions for work/school
help with taxes and paperwork
physical help around the house
help with relationships
At Crossroads we want to be a church that sees a need and does something about it.
We can’t always meet every need, but we want to serve where we can as often as possible.
At Crossroads, We -
Worship God and Jesus
Serve Those In Need
and
Grow in Faith Together
Hebrews 11:1 defines faith as:
If we are growing in our Faith together, we are growing in our confidence of what we hope for - Jesus.
How do we grow in our faith together?
I have 2 main ways in which our faith is challenged and as a result will grow:
Prayer - This is the exercise of our faith.
We cannot see God, yet we talk to him because we have assurance that He is there.
Jesus told us to ask in His name and believe.
Prayer is the exercise that will grow our faith
Study God’s Word - God’s Word tells us His promises for us.
How can we know those promises unless we read them?
By reading God’s Word together, those who are strong in faith can mentor and walk who are not into a deeper understanding and level of faith.
As one teaches, he grows, as one is taught, he grows.
These can certainly be done on our own and they should, but this should also be done together.
Both prayer and study when done with others are ways in which we grow in our faith together.
Worship God and Jesus
Serve Those In Need
Grow in Faith Together
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