Everyone has a next step to take:

• GATHER with the family
• Get in a GROUP
• Grow your FAITH

Learning happens when experience changes what you know, how you think, or how you act—and that change sticks.

INFORMATION WITHOUT ACTION IS NOT EDUCATION James 1:21-25 NLT

WHEN CHURCH ENTERTAINS US, THE GOSPEL IS POWERLESS Ezekiel 33:30-31 NLT

“I have read through the Bible and found many errors, all of which were in me.” - UNKNOWN

TRUE CHRISTIANITY MEANS WE ACT & SOUND LIKE JESUS James 1:26-27, 3:6-9 NLT

Everyone has a next step to take: Get in a Group

COMMUNITY IS FOUND IN A CROWD. RELATIONSHIP IS BUILT IN A GROUP. Luke 6:12-17 NLT

TIME IS THE CURRENCY OF RELATIONSHIP. Acts 2:42-37 NLT

LOVE FOR GOD & EACH OTHER BINDS US TOGETHER. Colossians 3:12-15 NLT

CONNECTION IS NOT COMMUNITY. Genesis 2:18 NLT

COMMUNITY IS IN OUR DNA. Genesis 1:1-2, 26-27; Matthew 26:38 NLT

“Communities are constituted by physical proximity, shared concerns, real consequences, and common responsibilities.”-Sherry Turkle, Social Scientist

Your shadow is the accumulation of untamed emotions, less-than-pure motives and thoughts that, while largely unconscious, strongly influence and shape your behaviors. It is the damaged but mostly hidden version of who you are. -Peter Scazzaro, Emotionally Healthy Leader

COMMUNITY MEETS OUR DEEPEST NEED FOR BELONGING.

YOU ARE DESIGNED TO THRIVE IN COMMUNITY.

NEXT STEP: GATHER WITH THE FAMILY.

Why are we here?

The church exists to help CHRISTIANS become more like Jesus. Ephesians 4:11-16

How can I be MORE like Jesus?John 8:5-8 NLT

The Parable Explained:

• Seed: God’s Word (the Gospel)
• Footpath: message hidden by the enemy
• Rocks: faith without roots that withers
• Thorns: concern for riches & pleasures
• Fertile Soil: honest or good people who make room for the message to grow

The Gospel is ineffective when the enemy hides God’s plan from our hearts, when we fail to root ourselves in Godliness, or when we allow the pursuit of worldly pleasure and riches to overtake our desire for the things of God.

Noursih the seed that God planted in your HEART.

WHY DOES GOD’S GLORY MATTER? John 1:10-14 NLT

GOD’S GLORY FALLS WHERE HIS PRESENCE DWELLS. Exodus 40:34-35, 2 Chronicles 7:1-3, NLT

LET THE SPIRIT OF GOD HAVE HIS WAY IN YOUR LIFE. Romans 8:11-14, Colossians 3:16 NLT

God sent his love to illuminate a dark world. Isaiah 9:1-2, John 1:1-5 NLT

Christmas offers God’s light for your life. John 8:12-19 NLT

Godliness prepares us to WEATHER whatever may come. Genesis 3:6-7, Psalm 1:1-3,

The CROSS was the very first Christmas Tree. Deuteronomy 21:22-23, Galatians 3:13-14 NLT

The Christmas tree is a PROMISE of eternal life Genesis 3:22-23, Revelation 22:1-5 NLT

Scriptures: Genesis 1:3, 6-7, 9, 14-15, 20, 24, 26, 28-31 Deuteronomy 8:14-19, Hebrews 13:14-16 NLT

God displayed his GENEROSITY as the very first giver of gifts.

Gifts were meant to be EXCHANGED between us and God.

God’s gifts remind us to live other-WORLDLY.