In Preparation

Eternal Church!
I am excited to take our first step together this Sunday as we grow in Christ through the Word of God being sung, prayed, read, and preached. This week we’ll begin by taking the next four weeks to remember why we exist. We’ll look at how the coordinates of Truth, Worship, Community, and Witness are meant to reorient and remind us of the purpose that’s been breathed into each of us by the God of Creation.

As we begin, I’d love to pass along some helpful ways to prepare for our time together.
Dr. Gunner Gundersen wrote a brief booklet entitled: How Do I Get the Most from My Pastor’s Sermons? In it, he discusses seven tips for hearing well:

1. Read the passage beforehand
2. Pray for your pastor
3. Remember who’s speaking
4. Furrow the field (till the soil)
5. Arrive early
6. Soak in the experience
7. Trust and obey

You can read a brief explanation of each of these things here:
7 Tips for Getting More out of Sunday Sermons 

With that, you can begin to prepare your heart for our time together by reading Genesis 1:1 and asking yourself, do I believe that in the beginning God created all things?
And if so, what are the implications for my life today?

I am wonderfully excited to jump into the Word this Sunday with each of you. My hope and prayer is that each of us arrives early with eager expectation for the Word of God to accomplish its purposes in our hearts and hands.

See you then!
Steve

12 Weeks of Remembering
March/April - Resurrection (4 weeks) - The resurrection of Christ
August - Reorientation (4 Weeks) - Our calling, purpose, mission, posture…
December - Advent (4 Weeks) - The arrival of Christ

40 Weeks of Verse by Verse Teaching through a text

We Are Eternal - The Four Coordinates (4 weeks)
Why We Exist will be the overarching question that we flesh out over the month of August.
Psalms (2 weeks)
James (11 weeks)
Advent (4 weeks)