If you enjoyed the clip of Robby Dawkins at our Sunday service this morning, here is the whole thing:
You can also see Robby on YouTube doing at Vineyard Conferance called Cultivation Generation
We would love to hear your feedback in comments below (but don’t forget to register first)
ENJOY!
Week Beginning 23rd January 2012
So this Sunday we talked a little about transformation of our communities, starting with us simply taking Jesus seriously, when he commanded us to love God and love our neighbour – we then took that a little further and begin to think what would that look like if we intentionally set out to love our ‘actual’ neighbours?
In your small groups this week think about how you, your family and small group can take steps to love your ‘actual’ neighbours.
And don’t forget to to join in and sign up at www.artofneighboring.com and lets see a movement of people who love their ‘actual’ neighbours emerge in Northampton.
Week Beginning 9th January 2012
Sunday 8th January we began a new series looking at the Vision & Values of our church. We begun by thinking about our Identity and our relationship to the wider Vineyard family.
Here are some questions and activities for your small group this week:
1. What do you love about being part of the Vineyard family?
2. How do you live out a lifestyle of Worship & Compassion?
(as a family, individual or small group)
3. What metaphor best describes your relationship to the church right now and why?
(Hospital, Home, School or Army)
4. Pray for each person in the group
The Sunday serving rota can now be downloaded here as a PDF file.
As you will know we operate a 4 team system, so Team 1 serves Week 1 of the month (and so on and so forth). If you cannot serve on a particular week, please arrange to swap with someone else on another team and if possible let the Sunday Manager know. Thanks.
Download Here (any problems let us know)
Jay Pathak speaks at The Cause to Live For conference 2011, Friday evening. Session 1 of 3
#1 – The Vision Is Not Clear - If people don’t know where a church is supposed to be going…then it will attempt to go everywhere and eventually wind up nowhere. (Interesting experiment–ask people this coming Sunday at your church, “What is our vision” and see if people give you the same answers or different ones.
#2 – The Focus Is On Trying To Please Everyone – There is NO church on the planet that will make everyone happy every single week…and…according to the Scriptures that isn’t really supposed to be our obsession. Too many times we become so concerned with offending people that we actually offend Jesus.
#3 – Passionless Leadership – When a leader does what he/she does for a paycheck and not because its their passion…it’s over. I’ve said at this site before…I want difference makers not paycheck takers. AND…also…it is hard to be passionate about a place when a persons average stay at a church is two years or less.
#4 – Manufacturing Energy – If a program is dead in a church…then it needs a funeral and the people need to move on. Investing time, energy and money into something that is dead will not revive it. Celebrate the fact that “that” program had its day…and then move on. AND…quit trying to fire people up over events that you would not attend if you were not on staff.
#5 – Lack of Prayer – Many times we work so hard putting our ideas together than we actually think there is no need for the supernatural power of God to be involved. Prayer should not be the good luck charm that we stick at the beginning or the end of what we do…but rather it should be our constant desperation to see God do the undeniable among us. Intense desperation often brings undeniable revelation!
#6 – Unwillingness To Take Risks – When our focus becomes to play it safe rather than to do whatever it takes to reach people far from God…it’s over. NOWHERE in the Scriptures did God ever ask anyone to do anything that didn’t involved an “oh crap” moment. We’ve GOT to be willing to embrace the uncertain if we want to see the unbelievable.
#7 – Disobedience To The Scriptures – Matthew 28:18-20, Mark 16:15, Luke 24:48, John 20:21, Acts 1:8, II Corinthians 5:16-21, Luke 19:10…I could go on and on…but we MUST understand that Jesus didn’t come to earth, live here for 33 years years, give HIS life for us and then return back to heaven to intercede for us so that we could get in really little circles and talk about ourselves and condemn those who are not as good as us. We are called to REACH PEOPLE FOR GOD–PERIOD!
#8 – Selfish Attitudes – Matthew 20:28 says it all…and if we are going to be more like Jesus we’ve GOT to serve others rather than expecting the church to be our servant all of the time. When a person (or group of people) refuse to embrace that a call to follow Jesus is a call to serve…then we’ve lost sight of who He is and eventually we will make being a Christian all about Jesus following/serving us rather than us taking up our cross and following Him!
What do you think?
YES – IT IS THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN! WE ARE RUNNING THE ‘CHRISTMAS IN A BOX’ CAMPAIGN AGAIN. THE FESTIVE SEASON CAN BE A REALLY DIFFICULT TIME FOR SOME PEOPLE, BOTH FINANCIALLY AND EMOTIONALLY. WE WANT TO STAND IN THE GAP, GIVING THOSE IN NEED SOME OF THE ESSENTIALS TO CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS – PROVIDING EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR CHRISTMAS…IN A BOX!
You can help by buying items for a whole box, for one or a family of four – we have a suggested list of items for a box. Or we have a suggested list of items we can put in the box – buy one or two of these, donate them and we will put together a box for you.
The shopping list has some ideas of what to include in a box. Please remember all items need to non perishable and in date until Christmas 2011
Download the Christmas in a Box Shopping List
Welcome to MYCV.com, the idea behind this site is to create a space for member of the church to interact and share resources.
Each week we will be posting small group discussion questions based on the previous Sunday’s talk, for each of our small groups to use if they want. We also have a links up there on the top right, to the Podcast, Sunday Rotas and the main Central Vineyard website.
So please register, post comments and help each other make MYCV.com a valuable resources for years to come.