CORE

SPECIAL THANKS!

Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate another blessed year with us.  Special thanks to the Social Team leaders and all volunteers in helping to make this event a success.

We had a great time with fun games, flag football, volleyball, softball, egg toss, water balloon toss, horse shoes, prizes, good food music, and fellowship.

We look forward to another year of growth and fellowship.  Thanks again.

PURE -  EYES, PASSION & HEART

DATE:      March 18th 2009

TIME:      7:30 pm

PLACE:    V3 Auditorium

RECAP:  In our last session, we delved a little deeper into the subject of the difference between love and lust. We discussed the signs of true love and went over other  real life scenarios. The  issue of Christians dating non-Christians under the guise the “missionary dating” was also covered as well as the reasons Christians give for dating non-Christians. In addition, we discovered what these reasons truly reveal about the heart.

Lastly, we were asked to answer the following questions:

What fuels your passion in life?

What can sabotage your “PURE” passion?

What we place into our hearts, fuels our passion which creates vision. Purity is placing God’s word inside our hearts, so that our heart beat becomes like His. His passion becomes our passion, His vision becomes our vision.

Come out and join us this week as we continue our discussion of Purity. You don’t want to miss this series!

COURAGE TO FAIL

“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous.” –Joshua 1:9

RECAP:    In this session, we  continued our series discussing the Courage to Fail.  We  had some fun by playing  a game called The Challenge in which each table was given a riddle that we had to figure out within 60 seconds.  If we figured out the riddle, we moved on to the next bonus question. However, if our answer was wrong we had to pick a  humorous consequence from a hat  for our whole table to perform, which was fun to see.

We discovered that some of the lessons we learn can only be gained through failure.  We were asked how do we respond to challenges when there is a strong possibility of failure. Do we  just for it and if we fail try again or do we miss an opportunity because of the fear of failure?

It takes courage to fail and we have to redefine how we view failure at times. There is a saying that the difference between greatness and mediocrisy is often how an individual views a mistake.  Thomas Edison said that many of life’s true failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.  ‘

THREE THINGS WE MUST RESIST:

1. The Courage to get started.
2. The Fear of failure.
3. The Consequences of failure.

Tell yourself , ” I failed at  doing something but I am not a failure.”  There’s a big difference. 

Do you believe God is ever behind our failures? If so, how and why?