GREENE STREET LETTERS: Living Sacrifices Worship Conference This Weekend/ Friday and Saturday

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Living Sacrifices Worship Conference This Weekend/ Friday and Saturday

This week end Gadsden Vineyard Church, supported by Vineyard ReCovery, will be the sight for the LIVING SACRIFICES WORSHIP CONFERENCE. I know..I know...it sounds like a huge event, with tons of people and lots of activity. Well, it's not, it's something more. IT's a kind of family reunion with brothers and sisters you didn't know you had. lot's of food...a chance to meet new faces and swap stories about the goodness of God. The bottom line is, it is an opportunity to worship. To talk about worship, and then worship. To discuss what worship means to each of us..and then worship. As the scripture states so eloquently..."We bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord".

There is a cost of $30.00 per person if you want to attend the entire conference which begins Friday evening. Saturday night, you can come and be a part for free. Crispin Schroeder, along with Bobby McDonald, will be our guest teachers and worship leaders. What you will experience and be a part of is a unique style of worship that is definitely regional in its sound.
I'll put it like this...
If the music doesn't stir your spirit....
and you don't find yourself tappin' that toe...
then we better take your pulse, you just might be dead.

The one thing that I love about this particular worship event is an opportunity to spend time with the ones leading it. The small discussion groups where they lay out their view (supported by Scripture) on what worship means to them. The need to move worship from the stage into the room. Worship is not a spectator event...it's isn't a performance...it is a gathering of God's people who want to pour out their hearts and love to a God who is greater than we could ever hope or imagine Him to be.

Psalm 95:1-3

Oh come, let us sing to the Lord.
Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation.
Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving.
let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms.
For the Lord is the great God,

And the the great King above all gods.

So if you're free this weekend....
C'mon out and join us...

God on you...
mb

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Looking At The World Through Cracked Lens

As ol' Paul wrote in his Corinthian letters.."We see in part and we know in part." Now what piece of this bit of wisdom do we not get? I wish to not run around acting and trying to be some sort of Biblical G00-Ru (I meant to spell it wrong). Or a sage of sages.

I simply want to be able to communicate some of what God has given to me. Why? Do I think what I get is better than what you may have received from Him? Nope. But I do think encouragement comes when we share our daily story of struggle and victory in an effort to encourage each other.

Thanks for letting me share.

Time to soldier on..

mbb

Our Statement of Faith

We believe that God is the eternal king. He is an infinite, unchangeable Spirit, perfect in holiness, wisdom, goodness, justice, power and love. From all eternity He exists as the One Living and True God in three persons of one substance, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit equal in power and glory. we believe that God created mankind in His image, male and female, for relationship with Himself and to govern the earth. Under the temptation of Satan, our original parents fell from grace, bringing sin, sickness and God's judgment of death to the earth. Through the fall, Satan and his demonic hosts gained access to God's good creation. Creation now experiences the consequences and effects of Adam's original sin. Human beings are born into sin, subject to God's judgment of death and captive to Satan's kingdom of darkness. We believe that Jesus, God's Son, was sent to this world, conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin, Mary, fully God and fully man in one person. He is humanity as God intended us to be. Jesus was anointed as God's Messiah and empowered by the Holy Spirit, ushering in God's kingdom reign on earth, overpowering the reign of Satan by resisting temptation, preaching the good news of salvation, healing the sick, casting out demons and raising the dead. Jesus' atoning death on the cross took God's judgment for sin which we deserved as law-breakers. Jesus' resurrection and ascent back to heaven opened the door for those who received salvation to begin a relationship with God.

Little Nets Into Deep Waters

Fishing nets were designed for one purpose only. To catch fish. Nets are no good if they stay on the boat. Nets serve no purpose if they are never used. I think maybe God sees us this way. We are all created for a purpose (by the way, the creator gets to define what our purpose is). Any other use besides the one we were created for does us no good. But when the creator places His hands upon us, casting us out into those scary, dark places with deep waters, it is then we can see the reality of our purpose. He knew there would be a catch waiting for us. I think I will be the net God has called me to be.

The Twelve Steps

As a community of people in recovery, we affirm that our higher power is Jesus Christ. He did for us what we could not do for ourselves. Just as God told the children of Israel He was going to give them a promised land, He has revealed to us that He desires to give us a "Promised Life." When Israel got to the promised land, God instructed them to go and in a possess it, fight for it and claim it. In recovery, the 12 Steps are the directions given to us on how to fight, possess and claim this promised life.

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Living Sacrifices Worship Conference This Weekend/ Friday and Saturday

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THE REALITY OF THE NAME OF GOD