One More Thing

Hi Five Oakers, The weekend’s coming and there are a few things I don’t want you to miss:

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The Weekend

Donald Miller, one of my favorite authors, kicked up a bit of a blog storm by saying he doesn't attend church services much anymore. He explains that he's not an audible learner and he doesn't connect with God through singing, so why go. I may or may not talk about this in my sermon this weekend, but I will speak to the idea that gathering for worship with a local expression of the body of Christ (his bride) is a low priority for followers of Christ.

Links You Might Like

// Here's the post by Donald Miller (who, incidentally, I will still love to read): "I Don’t Worship God by Singing. I Connect With Him Elsewhere." And here's a response to the comments on his blog: "Why I Don’t Go to Church Very Often, a Follow Up Blog."

// "5 Ways People Pleasing Can Undercut Your Parenting"

One More Thing

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We have two more weeks in the Worship series. Next week is about worship and our spiritual formation. The last week of the series will explore the four movements of our worship service and how they reflect important elements of worship.

What's next? A four-week series on Elijah and then a 13-week series on Galatians. What's exciting is that our Group Life team has been writing all the studies ahead of time and we will publish the Group Life Galatians' study as a book.

10 Tweets

Here’s my sermon from last weekend in 10 tweets: “My God, My God, Why?” (Hebrews 2:11-12; Psalm 22) cloudbuster_nine_cloudbuster_5_23_43_p3

1// "Is the snack going to be different this week in church?"

2// Jesus is a fellow worshiper (he shows us the way)

3// Worship is "intimacy with the Infinite." Father, Son and Holy Spirit experienced it for eternity past.

4// When Jesus worshiped in the synagogue and temple, he wasn't faking it.

5// Dads and moms, what do your kids learn about worship when they watch you worship?

6// Jesus is our worship leader (he leads the way) - represents God to us and our praises to God (Heb 2:11-12)

7// Jesus is a worshiper who gets it right (he clears the way for us) - we got in because our friends did it right...

8// "We won the armed forces championship with me at second base." As an afterthought: "Ted Williams played center field."

9// Globo: "When God hears our singing, he hears the voice of his Son mingled with ours."

10// Psalm 22..."My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"..."I will declare your name...and sing..." Matt 26..."they sang a hymn and went out"