Sermon Tone Analysis

Labor Day 2016 River Church Began

We began in a Borrowed Building

Within Two Weeks We Were Offered a Building of Our Own

Fall Festival:

We gave away hundreds of snowballs, kids books and information about Jesus and our church

Work Day On New Building

Joy Fellowship -

Christmas Potluck

Christmas Candy to Inmates

Christmas Presents to Children of Inmates

Children Singing for Christmas

Family Festival - April 15

Easter Service -

Work Day Inside the Church -

Youth Group began at the first of the Summer -

VBS - July 19-22

Book Bags Full of Supplies to 40 Students at St Ville

180 Book Bags to Inmates Children

Back to School Sunday

That’s an awesome year, especially a first year.

Why Does River Church Exist?

Out of these two passages, come 5 reasons why River Church Exists.

1. River Church Exists to Worship.

You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind

Worship is adoration, love, reverence, respect, devotion...

River Church Exists to Worship the Lord

One of the Functions of the Holy Spirit is assist us in worship, in prayer, and intercession.

He also convicts us of sin and empowers us to overcome temptations.

One way the Sprit helps us to worship is with a prayer language.

How do We Love the Lord with All of Our Hearts?

By Worshipping Him.

When we express our love for the Lord, we are worshipping Him.

We should not hold anything back when worshipping the Lord because He did not hold anything back from us.

We are also to love him with our soul and mind.

Our Soul contains our will and with our will we decide to worship the Lord even when we may not feel like it.

We make decisions… we decide to forgive when we really want to take revenge.

We love the Lord with our mind as well.

We don’t check our brains at the door to worship the Lord.

Logically, Christianity makes way more sense than anything else.

We need to engage our mind in developing our core beliefs and why we believe that way.

Notice, Worship comes before Service.

Worshipping the Lord is the first reason our church exists and it’s why we each exist as well.

How Do We Worship the Lord?

Do we have to be here in church?

No.

We worship him in a variety of ways… Love and devotion, worship services, acts of kindness… anything done in His name.

It can be loud or not loud...

River Church Exists to Minister to Others.

Ministry is demonstrating God’s love to others by meeting their needs and healing their hurts in the name of Jesus.

Every time we touch other people with the Love of Jesus, we are ministering.

We want to impact Every area of people’s lives: Physical, Mental, Social and Spiritual

When you offer to pray for someone… give a kind word, even give someone water in the name of Jesus, it’s ministry.

We are to love other people...

Dr. Rene Spitz of New York compared two sets of infants in two institutions.

In one institution called “Nursery,” the mothers took care of their own infants.

In the second called “Foundling home,” one overworked nurse took care of 12 infants.

The test results: “Nursery” babies began with an IQ of 101.5.

This rose in one year to 105.

“Foundling” babies started with IQ 124, but declined to 45 within two years.

Moreover, in two years, 37% of “Foundling” children died; but in five years, “Nursery” did not lose a child

“Love not Rules makes the difference in People’s Lives”

River Church’s job is to Prepare You for Ministry

We want to plug you into a ministry.

Benevolence Ministry / Celebrate Recovery / Jail Ministry @ Rivarde / Youth / Children / Women’s Ministry / Men’s Ministry / Outreach Ministry / Connect Group Ministry

River Church Exists to Effectively Communicate The Gospel.

We exist to communicate Jesus’ story.

We are his ambassadors.

God has given us the responsibility to tell others what he has done and is doing in our lives and church.

The proper reading of go and make disciples is … As You go… As you go into the Grocery Store, Make disciples… As you pick your kids up from school, make disciples… as you go to work, make disciples… We are to tell the world about jesus love for them.

Did you know that Jesus ave 5 great Commissions?

Each Gospel and the book of Acts.

(Matt 28:19-20; Mark 16:15-18; Luke 24:47-49; John 20:21; Acts 1:8)

Everyone of these tells us to go and tell the world.

Question - If you had the cure for cancer, would you tell anyone?

Of course.

We have something better.

We haver the secret of living forever.

As long as there is anyone who doesn’t know Jesus, we have a mandate to tell them about Jesus.

Jerusalem - Our immediate area

1.

Take a co-worker out for coffee;

2. Take cookies to work;

3. Offer to baby sit for a neighbor;

4. Take some one to a sports events;

5. Invite them to church; “Come and See…

6. Go to lunch and leave a really big tip and invite them to church; (John Wyres)

7. Help with hospital visits;

8. Help with counseling; financial, etc

9. Invite them to an Alpha Group

10.Participate in FTM – July 4th

11.Get trained and host a small group.

12. Help with VBS, Youth, Children, or Prison

Judea - Our Surrounding Area

1 Learn How to Host a Connect Group

2. Host or lead a Connect Group

3. Participate in Church Wide Events

4. Support Missions and outreaches: Disaster Relief, Prison Ministry,

Samaria - People who are Different than You are

1 Homeless Ministry

2. Prison Ministry

3. ESL