January 22, 2011
Meeting at Rogers Malco Town Cinema at 10:00 a.m.
We’re so glad you’ve chosen to visit with us today at Grace Hills. We’re a brand new church, just getting started, and our greatest desire is to see lives changed and people added to our growing family so that we can make a difference in northwest Arkansas and beyond.
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Membership Matters
TODAY from 3:00 – 5:00 p.m., Pastor Brandon will teach Membership Matters, our introduction to Grace Hills. Hear the story, the vision, and the values of our church as well as what it means to be a member. RSVP via the communication card.
Grace Groups
We are launching small groups, called Grace Groups, in February. If you’re committed to Christ and to membership at Grace Hills, you can host one! Groups are sermon-based and video-driven. For more information, check out the Grace Groups page.
Men – Let’s Have Coffee
Every Tuesday morning at 6:30 a.m. starting this week, Pastor Brandon will host a men’s group discussion at Panera Bread in Bentonville. Let’s have coffee.
Message Notes
I Need People HERE to Help Me Get THERE
Series: Masterpiece, Part 2
Date: Sunday, January 22, 2011
Key Bible Passages: Ephesians 2 and Ephesians 4
God didn’t create us to live in a bubble or be lone rangers. He designed us to live in community with other people. So now you Gentiles are no longer strangers and foreigners. You are citizens along with all of God’s holy people. You are members of God’s family. Together, we are his house, built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets. And the cornerstone is Christ Jesus himself. We are carefully joined together in him, becoming a holy temple for the Lord. Through him you Gentiles are also being made part of this dwelling where God lives by his Spirit. ~ Ephesians 2:19-22
God is building this crazy thing called the church.
It’s a divine creation.
“… upon this rock I will build my church, and all the powers of hell will not conquer it.” ~ Matthew 16:18 NLT
It’s a human institution.
“I like your Christ, I just don’t always like your Christians.” ~ Gandhi
“There is nothing like the local church when its working right. Its beauty is indescribable. Its power is breathtaking. It’s potential is unlimited. It comforts the grieving and heals the broken… It builds bridges to seekers and offers truth to the confused. It provides resources for those in need and opens its arms to the forgotten, the downtrodden, and the disillusioned… Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness… the radical message of transforming love has been given to the church.” ~ Bill Hybels, Courageous Leadership
God formed YOU for His family.
I need a place to BELIEVE with others.
Therefore, I, a prisoner for serving the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of your calling, for you have been called by God. Always be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other’s faults because of your love. Make every effort to keep yourselves united in the Spirit, binding yourselves together with peace. For there is one body and one Spirit, just as you have been called to one glorious hope for the future. There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and one God the Father, who is over all and in all and living through all. ~ Ephesians 4:1-6 NLT
I need a place to SERVE with others.
However, he has given each one of us a special gift through the generosity of Christ…Now these are the gifts Christ gave to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers. Their responsibility is to equip God’s people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ. ~ Ephesians 4:7, 11-12
I need a place to GROW with others.
This will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God’s Son that we will be mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard of Christ. Then we will no longer be immature like children. We won’t be tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching. We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth. Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church. He makes the whole body fit together perfectly. As each part does its own special work, it helps the other parts grow, so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love. ~ Ephesians 4:13-16 NLT
