“Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.”
Acts 2:46-47
CrossPoint Church is preparing to launch Sunday Celebration gatherings that will encourage people in their crosspoint to connect to Christ, cultivate relationships, and build transformational communities.
Sunday September 20, we will have a celebration service with a message from Arnie Ferguson lead pastor and Jason Raymond the ministries development coordinator on “Plastic Jesus”. They will not only speak about how Jesus may have become plastic in our lives, but will share about upcoming ministries and the opportunity to build community in small group at CrossPoint Church.
Cultivating Relationships is an important part of building a faith community and CrossPoint Church does not want to launch weekly celebration gatherings to soon. This Sunday CrossPoint will be launching the Acts 2:46-47 life groups and continue their monthly Celebration Gatherings at the Springwood 9 Theaters. Building community through cultivating relationships is a non- negotiable with Arnie and Lynda as they feel this is what the Lord has challenged them within their own personal lives.
Arnie & Lynda want to encourage everyone to come and celebrate a Jesus that is not plastic, but is real and life giving.
See you Sunday
CrossPoint's Launch
People Don’t Change, God Changes People
Nehemiah 4
Can you imagine as Nehemiah begins working on the walls, getting buy in from the Israelites, everyone working and then someone comes and begins to critique the work. Making a big deal and even threatening to stop the work and even hurt people in the process.
Things don’t change much after thousands of years. We still have those around that find great pleasure in trying to stop people from reaching their hopes and dreams. What a picture of strength from Nehemiah. This must have been a great encouragement to those working alongside of him. Moreover, he does not stop with just the prayer, he puts a strategy together to protect those who have partnered with him to rebuild the walls and continue the work of rebuilding the walls.
My prayer is the each of us encourages one another like Nehemiah as we all reach for the hopes and dreams God has placed in our hearts. Your Hope may be someone else’s Hope.
Bringing Hope Home
Nehemiah is a great journal to read through for anyone looking for encouragement as we build our families, businesses, planting churches, etc.
Nehemiah begins with hearing news from home that gives him great distress. So much so that he weeps, mourned, fasted and prayed. Neh. 1:4. I began to think about the impact of his actions. These actions brought the ultimate results that we see later as he gathers a team of people to rebuild the wall.
Though the miracle is the walls being rebuilt, it begins here with the response and where it is directed to. God, what an intimate moment we are able to see.
This was Nehemiah’s CrossPoint, his moment that compels him to step up and move from the king’s palace to a place of leadership in rebuilding not only the city walls, but the hope in the hearts of his people. May each of us find the strength as Nehemiah did move towards God, as He uses us to bring hope to the hearts of those who are on their spiritual journey.
