Yesterday was another awesome day at New Horizon. It seems like every weekend God just continues to do things to rock our world. Life change is happening every week! Here's an example: one of our staff members came to my office after the services were over and said, "Just wanted to tell you about a guy I met today. He got saved today and then he joined a serving team and a Community Group!" ALL IN ONE DAY! NOW THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!
Other than that, here are some highlights from yesterday...
• We wrapped up the Religiously Transmitted Diseases series with a focus on some erroneous beliefs about sin:
1) I'm really not that bad - Are you kidding me? We're all bad! We're sinners! And until we realize how bad our sin is (it required the death of God's only son!) we won't realize how badly we need a savior.
2) All sin is the same - Not exactly. It is in the sense that it all separates us from God, but other than that the Bible clearly indicates that different sins lead to different outcomes and different levels of consequence, both in this life and in the life to come.
3. I've already done the deal, so I might as well keep doing it - Only if you want to cause yourself more trouble. The end result of sin is always the same - we end up tangled up, overcome and miserable.
So what do we do? Take our sin seriously and repent...turn in the opposite direction.
• God has really used this series. Lots of responses during the prayer times and lots of people getting saved.
• We announced our new series that begins next week, God Is Great, God Is Good. We're going to rock the book of Habakkuk for 3 weeks. Habakkuk??? Yeah, it's in that section of your Bible where the pages are still stuck together, but it's an incredibly relevant story to our lives today. We've all had times in our lives when we wondered if God was really as good and great as we've been told. In this series we're going to learn to have faith during those very times when we question God's goodness and greatness. Looking forward to digging into this one!
• Handed out invite cards for the new series and we gave everyone a handful of cards. Let me encourage you to USE THEM ALL!!! I have a gut feeling that God really wants to use this series in a big way to draw people to himself. So, do whatever it takes to get your friends here this Sunday!
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