Important Truth: Worship has the power to determine your destiny. “Worship the Lord your God and...

Important Truth:Worship has the power to

determine your destiny.

A Church that Exalts Christ

“Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.” (Luke 4:8, NIV)

A Church that Exalts ChristMission Statement:

Leading people to a growing relationship with Christ.

A Church that Exalts Christ“Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your

bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God–this is your

spiritual act of worship.” (Romans 12:1, NIV)

A Church that Exalts Christ“He (Abraham) said to his servants,

‘Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship

and then we will come back to you.’” (Genesis 22:5, NIV)

A Church that Exalts Christ

2 Lifestyle Traits:1. Pitching Tents

“The LORD had said to Abram, ‘Leave your country, your people and your

father's household and go to the land I will show you.”

(Genesis 12:1 NIV)

A Church that Exalts Christ

2 Lifestyle Traits:1. Pitching Tents

“…‘Your fathers, including Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor, dwelt on the other side of the River in old times;

and they served other gods.” (Joshua 24:2, NKJV)

A Church that Exalts Christ

2 Lifestyle Traits:1. Pitching Tents

“By faith he (Abraham) made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a

foreign country; he lived in tents…” (Hebrews 11:9, NIV)

A Church that Exalts Christ

2 Lifestyle Traits:2. Building Altars

“For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you

to God. He was put to death in the body but made

alive by the Spirit,” (1 Peter 3:18, NIV)

A Church that Exalts Christ

2 Lifestyle Traits:2. Building Altars

“Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living

sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God–this is your spiritual

act of worship.” (Romans 12:1, NIV)

“Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he

who sins sexually sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have

received from God? You are not your own;you were bought at a price. Therefore

honor God with your body.” (1 Cor. 6:18-20 NIV)

A Church that Exalts Christ

“…true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of

worshipers the Father seeks.” (John 4:23, NIV)

A Church that Exalts Christ

2 Action Steps: 1. Worship Everyday 2. Focus on God

“For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ

and him crucified.”(1 Cor. 2:2, NIV)

“But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers,

disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-

control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather

than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power.

And from such people turn away! (2 Tim. 3:1-5, NKJV)

A Church that Exalts Christ“…I am not ashamed of the gospel of

Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes…”

(Romans 1:16, NKJV)

A Church that Exalts Christ“…I am the way and the truth and the life.

No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6, NIV)