18 Nov At the Movies 2018 | Week 4 “Who Are the Incredibles?”
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Ornaments will be ready to purchase between Thanksgiving and Christmas in the amount of $50 and $100 to sponsor a guest for Night to Shine. Look for the white Christmas tree in the lobby next weekend!
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Key Verse: Matthew 5:3-16
The ‘Incredibles’ were Super Hero’s that saved people. However, society did not want to be saved and therefore turned against the Incredibles. It is the same frustration in our world where Christians are told to ‘go away’. The world tells us it does not want or need us, but just as we find out (in the movie), it does. God did not save us to sit silently and wait to die so we can go to heaven. The church is the change agent for the culture in which it resides. Here, at Waters we partner missions programs in other parts of the world like India, El-Salvador, Guatemala, and Haiti. We are part of a global missions movement to see the Kingdom of God come and the will of God be done here on earth as it is in heaven. Jesus did not ask us to pray ‘Get us out of here.’ We are the people God has chosen to do something special in this community and in the region of New England.
Q. What was your experience with Christians before you came to have a personal relationship with Christ? Did you like being around them or did you want them to go away and why?
When you have realized your need for God, and hunger for righteousness, then you are salt and light.
Being Salt and Light Means:
1. I HAVE DIVINE USEFULNESS.
We are called to be salt and light. As Christians, we have potential. Salt is enormously useful and available. It is in every household from the poor to the rich. Jesus wants us everywhere. In those days, salt was known to have four uses: flavor food, preserve meat, traction and purification.
Today, there are 14000 scientifically document uses for salt.
Without salt we die. Jesus knew we would find out about all these uses for salt. In Christ, we are useful.
Each of us has a gift and we do not need to have the same gift as someone else. It has many applications because it is so useful, we don’t have to have the same application as the person next to us.
We are the Incredibles. Some of us are strong leaders like Mr. Incredible, some are flexible like Elastagirl, some are small but quick like Dash, protective like Vi and others have many gifts like Jack-Jack.
Q. Which Incredible character do you relate to and why do you think God has given you these gifts? Are you using the gift(s) to their fullest potential?
Being Salt and Light Means:
2. I WILL BE USED IN CHALLENGING CONDITIONS.
The salt in the shaker isn’t doing anything for anybody. It needs to be shaken up.
Q. What challenges have you faced have shaken you out of the shaker? In other words, what has God allowed in your life so that your salt did not lose its flavor?
SALT must be used in the decay.
It must be used in the decay of the world to preserve it.
LIGHT must be used in the dark.
Light must be used in the dark places of the world to illuminate it.
We need to shine in dark places. A flashlight has no benefit in a lighted room. God has some of us in dark places so we can shine our light. He puts us in the dark, where we are most useful.
Q. What ‘dark places’ has God put you in where you can shine your light and how are you shining your light in that dark place?
Being Salt and Light Means:
3. I MAY NOT BE APPRECIATED AT THE TIME OF MY USE.
Just as the prophets Jeremiah and Isaiah were not liked until the people came to repentance, we will not be appreciated at times. Salt hurts when rubbed on a womb but it heals. Light hurts our eyes when we initially come out of the dark.
Q. What experiences have you had where you were not appreciated by others that you were only trying to help in relation to God’s word?
Being Salt and Light Means:
4. I AM NOT MEANT TO HIDE.
God has put us here in the church, work and family not to hide but to shine.
Q. Are you hiding and why? Are you serving and if not why?
15 for 15 is completed. There will be a documentary on December 15 regarding all of the wishes. Some include: washer and dryer for a grandmother with a special needs granddaughter, two cars and a van given away, three vacations to those with cancer, two paid mortgages, bills paid, fence repaired and brand new tires. This is the church being the Church. Church happens because people are Salt.
PRAY FOR EACH OTHER, THE LOST, WOONSOCKET AS WE COME CLOSE TO SIGNING ON A LEASE TO A PERMANENT LOCATION AND OTHER UPCOMING CAMPUSES THE ROOF AS IT HAS SEVERAL LEAKS AND WILL COST MUCH $$ TO REPLACE , THE CHURCH, THE NATION AND LEADERS AND 15 WISHES AND GUATEMALA MISSION. ALSO PRAY FOR NIGHT TO SHINE, AND THOSE IN THE COMMUNITY THAT COME TO TRUNK OR TREAT .
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