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What Is Worship?
What is worship?Sometimes to know what something is, it helps to know what it isn't. This is a video that we showed this past Sunday at Celebration to show what worship isn't...Celebration Service
This past Sunday we had our third Celebration Service.Outpouring Church from Oswego came and supplied the music, sound, set up and other help. We thank them a ton for helping us!Everything goes very smooth. Our team works to make it happen. Conversations are great. We continue to have people who don't go to church join us (4 over the course of three months).Continue to pray for increased interest and involvement. God is at work!We have moved from 3 to 8 people on our team. They came together last night and had a great meeting for a community event at the end of July. It was exciting to see everything come together and the excitement on their faces. Pray this event will impact people! More to come on it in the days ahead.Dominican Republic Items
This Sunday we are collecting items to go towards people in the Dominican Republic who live off of dollars per day.What will we collect?The items will travel to the Dominican Republic with a mission team from our parent church, Lamson Road Community Church, and will be hand delivered.Get involved in sharing your resources through giving!ShaneWhat Is Worship?
This week marks The Bridge Church's third monthly Celebration Service.
4 PM, Sunday @ The Red Mill Inn, Baldwinsville, NY.A woman walks into a man's house who thinks she is a disgrace to society to worship a man in an extravagant, costly and appropriate way. How does this apply to you?Come find out on Sunday.ShanePainting the Bridge
Save the date of June 26!
One of the visions that we have is to save our community a lot of money in man power through local community service projects. Our local pedestrian walkway is covered with graffiti and we are going to paint it.This is a chance to get out and create an immediate positive change on the community.The location is seen below in Google Maps Street View. More details will come soon.May 16 Celebration Service
Due to technical difficulties...well, actually user error...my user error, the May 16 Celebration just now got online. Thanks Mark!When Jesus called Matthew to follow, Matthew then threw a sinners party so that his friends could encounter Jesus. The Bridge Church's Celebration Services are designed to be the same thing...sinners parties. One sinner inviting another sinner to meet Jesus, their Savior from sin.<div style="font-size: 11px;padding-top:10px;text-align:center;width:560px">Watch live streaming video from <a href="http://www.livestream.com/bridgebville?utm_source=lsplayer&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=footerlinks" title="Watch bridgebville at livestream.com">bridgebville</a> at livestream.com</div>The next Celebration Service is June 13.ShaneWhy Gifts?
Why do we have spiritual gifts or that one thing that we can do that produces fruit?
A few thoughts:1 Peter 4:10-11Based on the gift they have received, everyone should use it to serve others, as good managers of the varied grace of God. If anyone speaks, his speech should be like the oracles of God; if anyone serves, his service should be from the strength God provides, so that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong the glory and the power forever and ever.- Our gifts are for other people. If we use them for ourself, then we are misusing them.
- Our gifts are to be supernatural. Each gift has a different supernatural outcome, but each gift is seen in a way that is above and beyond what any human can do. Peter gives two examples in speaking and serving.
- Our gifts are for God's glory. Because they are supernatural, there is only one explanation, "God did it." Because they are for others, we get to tell other people, "God did it."
Watching other people serve in their gifts is a blast. You get the see a person be amazed by what God can do through them. This is why we have gifts AND use them.ShaneFilming Friday @ 4 PM
We are trying to gather a cast to shoot a video about what worship isn't. It will be featured in our June 13 Celebration Service about faith, value and worship.
You want to be a part? Friday @ The Red Mill Inn @ 4 PM.What If?
"Would you like this same thing for your life?
This is a question we are taught to use when presenting the Gospel. There is nothing wrong with this question. I need to do a much better job incorporating it.I am reading through Acts with a couple of guys. One thing that sticks out is that when the Gospel is presented in Acts, it is the listener, not the presenter that asks the question.The classic is in Acts 2 when Peter is asked, "What must we do to be saved?" What is God moves in such a way that we aren't the one asking the question, but they are? What if we wait until they seek more?There is a tension here. We must act in urgency (as if the first apostles didn't have urgency about them). But in Acts, God moved in such a way that this question was unnecessary.This is a "what if?" post. I have more questions than answers. But what if the ground work was done so well, that people begged to know God?ShaneIdentity
Have you ever noticed that a child that has their parent's identity is confident?
One day I walked through a parking lot and a little child was holding their parent's hand. The child confidently said, "Hi!"Sure, some probably had to do with temperament, but I think a lot had to do with the child walking hand-in-hand with their parent.God, as Father, wants us to walk hand-in-hand with him. He wants us to have his identity. He wants us to live confidently in him. He wants us to imitate him. He wants his fingerprint all over us.This is what life is all about. -
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