Worship Fully!

Series: Advent 2020

Worship Fully!

December 06, 2020 | Paul Duppenthaler
Luke 2:8-20

The shepherds on that first Christmas certainly did, but our hearts aren't always as warm as we'd like them to be.  The problem is we can't easily control our hearts. The Bible does give us good instruction however about what we can do that will no doubt rekindle the fire many of us had when we first believed in Christ.  Join us for worship as we explore how to do this.

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Luke 2:8-20 

The Problem: Our love has .

Revelation 2:2–4 I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked people, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not and have found them false. You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name and have not grown weary. Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first.

The Prescription:  ,, AND .

Rev 2:5 Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. 

CULTIVATE YOUR FIRST LOVE

  1. DIAL UP YOUR .
    James 1:17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. 
  1. PREACH  TO YOURSELF DAILY.

2 Peter 1:3–4 His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. 

  1. LEAVE THE ORPHANAGE: .

Romans 8:15 NLT So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him, “Abba, Father.” 

  1. RETURN TO THE ORPHANAGE: .

Acts 20:35 In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ 

  1. PARTICIPATE IN THE .

Facilitate 100 local families finding homes:    -Family Promise

Help 60 local kids celebrate Christmas:    -Angel Tree

Send 7 kids in Banbasa India to finish high school:   -GSAM

Series Information

A while back, a small group of pastors began to dream of a different kind of tomorrow. They dreamed of a different approach to the Christmas season for their churches and communities. As a result, a radically different approach to Christmas was born. As it is described on their website, “Advent Conspiracy is a global movement of people and churches resisting the cultural Christmas narrative of consumption by choosing a revolutionary Christmas through Worshipping Fully, Spending Less, Giving More, and Loving All.”

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