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*YOU!
Your Story of Growth!* * A real life example: Epaphras*
*Thanks to everyone who helped with the Bish Bash.*
School begins this week for most students.
Do I hear groans & cheers?
*This means… Friday fare also begins.*
WCC fills bags to give to children so they and their families can eat on the weekends.
We potentially will go from 39 bags to 52! If you can help, see me after worship.
*School starting also means the summer has flown by!* I'm curious.
/Did you rest?
Did you go on vacation?
Did you grow?/
All are good, but growth is what I had in mind.
I was praying for a summer growth spurt in your life and mine.
*NOT flood pants**J*, but that we all would grow in the areas of forgiveness, grace and maturity!
Joseph was our example of forgiveness.
*Jean *Valjean, Ruth and Jonah were Mark Stier's examples of grace.*
And now we come to maturity!
Maturity seems to be a bit elusive.
Logically one would conclude that the older a person gets the more mature they become!
But maturity doesn’t always work that way!
*I don't want to miss an opportunity today.
Is today your birthday?*
I have a birthday cupcake sitting right here for you.
*Obviously I pray there are not more than six of you**J!*
If today is your birthday you are in good company.
*Here are a few more August 10th birthdays.*
/The 31st President of the United States – Herbert Hoover, Antonio Banderas turned 52.
Recognize the name Suzanne Collins?
She is best known for writing the young adult novel trilogy The Hunger Games.
She turned 50 by the way.
Other birthdays include the late Jack Haley who played the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz, Rocky Colavito and popular sports announcer Gus Johnson./
*Here are a few more August 11th birthdays.
*/Chris Hemsworth turns 29 today.
He plays the fictional character Thor.
Hulk Hogan turns 59 today.
Pablo Sandavol plays Third base for the San Francisco Giants.
He turns 26 today.
I’m sure you remember the late Steve Jobs!
Well, Steve Wozniak, the inventor of the Apple II computer turns 62 today.
Joe Rogan, a stand-up comedian and host of Fear Factor turns 45.*[i]* Here’s ONE More, but His birthday was yesterday.
/*That loveable beagle named Snoopy!*
Snoopy's birthday is August 10, 1968.
Snoopy was the brain child of the late Charles Schultz.
“He was Charlie Brown's pet dog.
Snoopy was greatly patterned after Spike, one of Schultz's childhood dogs.”
One moment Snoopy did not exist.
Another moment he did.
With the stroke of a pen Snoopy has become one of the world’s most “recognizable comic characters.”[ii]
At one time we too did not exist and neither did this world or this universe.
*But God came up with a grand idea*.
I will not only make little planets like Mercury, Venus and the planet Earth.
I'll make HUGE planets like Jupiter and Saturn.
I will not only make the Sun.
I'll make bigger stars like Arcturus and Antares.
*But God didn't stop there*.
From the mind of God he created mankind.
We didn't exist to "Adam meet Eve.
Eve meet Adam!"
But they sinned and we have too.
*Thank heavens God didn't stop there*.
He came up with salvation.
The ark first and then the cross.
He came up with his only son dying for sins he did not commit.
God came up with His spirit beating inside our hearts.
God came up with the church.
The actual body of Christ.
God said I'll equip and empower my church, my children with spiritual gifts and with these gifts they'll serve me and mature in their faith.
*Allow me to provide an example.*
*Turn in your Bibles to Paul’s letter to the Colossians!
Do you need a Bible?* *Once you get your Bible I also need you to locate your handout.*
I would appreciate you filling out and tearing off the Connect Card.
Growth does not happen in isolation.
We need to connect with one another.
Drop this off in the baskets as you leave.
*Look at this cartoon!*
*THE STORY! **CHILCOTE OPEN HOUSE~/RECEPTION *
The NT starts with* three sets of four!* MMLJ – AR1&2C – GEPC! Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians and Philemon make up Paul’s four prison letters.[iii]
From prison Paul writes to three churches and to one friend.
Paul sits in a Roman prison because of his conviction that Jesus came back from the dead.
*Are you going to spend money for a tombstone**J?*
These people did.
Check out this Motorcycle, Fishing, Golfing, Light Bulb & Living room.
This guy (BP) wanted to convey a message.
/“I told you I was sick!”/
What has me “all in” with Christ Jesus is that you will never find his bones buried in some tomb somewhere.
Paul was so convinced of that he went to prison.
*May I ask you?* Has your faith in Christ Jesus cost you anything lately?
Here’s the primary reason why Paul writes Colossians.
*/“/**/Jesus Christ is supreme – over everyone and everything.”*[iv]*
/*/ /People taught then and people teach now that Jesus is less than supreme, of no priority.
Let’s see what Paul thinks.
*Go to Colossians 1:15.
(Read 15-19; 2:9!)* *Fullness!*
What does that mean?
For Jesus it means /“Jesus is every bit God.”*[v]*/
For us it means.
/“Salvation is every bit Jesus!” /*The word fullness here is this word PLEROMA pronounced play-ro-mah!*[vi]**
Let me give you one word association.
What do you think of when you hear Cleveland – LOSER.
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