Summer Worship Series

As we approach the summer and a new worship schedule, I also want to take the time to share with you what we focus on in worship over the next three months.

We will be using a series titled “Behave as if you Believe…”.  This series was developed by the folks at Prince of Peace in Burnsville, MN, as a way to empower folks like you to live the life that we read about and profess about in our worship.  Using 2 Corinthians and Ephesians, we will focus our worship on those things that mark us as disciples.  Here’s what their introduction says:

“For many decades the assumption within our churches was simple: if we can change the way people think, they will change how they act. The past twenty years or more psychologists have discovered this to be faulty thinking. We behave our way into new thinking, not the other way around. In the Bible God spends more time on changing the behaviors of people than on their attitudes. We do not want to overstate this, but it is true. This series will begin with the our new understanding of human behavior and thinking. These questions form the basis for our worship: What would your life look like to others and feel like to you if you lived as if what you believed really were true?  This is our goal: empowering people in the Holy Spirit to develop a real faith for real life.”

I am excited to begin this series.  I also know that living and behaving as if we believe the Good News is really hard to do by one’s self.  Yet together, we are able to affirm and encourage and empower one another.

This fall, I hope to also begin a Discipleship Academy, which will look more intentionally at the seven ways disciples live.  Stay tuned for that announcement as well.This week, we will start with “walk by faith and not by sight”.  Please join us for worship – June 14-21 at 8 & 10:15 AM and beginning June 28 – 9 AM on Sundays and July 1 – 7:30 PM on Wednesdays.  Our Summer schedule will continue until August 30/Sept 2.

Blessings and peace,

Pastor Tina