announcements 02.06.13

Hello everyone! Here are some reminders this week:

Question of the week:
1.  Would you rather always lose or never play? Why?
2.  What has God been doing in your life?

Recap on Sunday's message:

Worship: Centered on Jesus

True Worship

-magnifies God to His rightful greatness, regardless of our circumstances
-centers on Jesus and His completed work on the cross

Center of Worship for Jews: tabernacle/temple

-gloriously and extravagantly built in 957BC, took 7 years to construct
-destroyed in 586 BC by the Babylonians to punish Israel's idolatry

Center of Worship for Christians: Jesus Christ and the Cross

-Jesus calls Himself God's temple-Jesus relocates worship from the Temple to people (Jesus)

Why is Jesus and the Cross central to worshiping God?

1. Jesus' work on the cross makes our worship acceptable

-On our own, our worship can never be acceptable to God because it is tainted with sin
-However, if we have union and faith in Christ, our sacrifices are acceptable to God

2. Jesus gives us free and confident access

-Prior to Jesus, access to God was costly and unsure
-When Jesus died on the cross, the veil to the Holy of Holies was torn
-Without Jesus' death and resurrection, no amount of our effort gives us access to God

3. Jesus reveals the Father's glory

-God reveals Himself through Jesus' face

4.  Worship in heaven focuses on Christ and the Cross

-No one is worthy to open the scroll, except the Lamb who was slain
-Jesus is worthy and worshiped solely because of His work on the cross

Here are the announcements for this week:

• FNF: We will be continuing on our new study on "Serving Others in Love" Part 2 (Mark 10:42-45)
• Sunday CE: Come out for our continual study in the book of James (James 2:14-20)
• EFC EV Blogspot!: Explore our blogspot account!!  Check out our HS Logo and vote on colors for our HS shirts/jackets.  And feel free to share any prayers or reflections on this past year, winter retreat or anything else that has impacted your spiritual life in any way (: http://efcevhs.blogspot.com/

Mark your calendars and save the date:

• February 25 - Outreach/Activity Night

Notes:

• HS group: Our new high school name will be LOL4 (Lots of Lord, Love, Laughter, Life).  Our HS Logo is done!  Help us finalize the color of our shirts/zip-up sweaters!!  Your input is very much welcome and appreciated (:
• Home Visitations: Ask your parents about home visitations and let us know if you are interested and when would be a good time.

Grace;

HS CORE & Chris

"Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!" (Psalm 150:6)