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We are so glad you are here today! We invite you to sit back, relax and enjoy the service. We want to make your visit to LIFEPOINTE Church very special – and here’s how:

You can trust your children (from birth – grade 6) to our AngelPointe and KidzPointe teams. AngelPointe provides quality, loving care for your little ones from nursery to preschool. An atmosphere of fun and belonging has been created in our KidzPointe classes to make your child feel welcome. Any of our greeters can direct you to the children’s area. If you decide to keep your infant or young child with you during the service, please note that the restrooms are outside the back door of the auditorium on the left.

Please use the WELCOME card to request any further information about our church or to communicate with us. You can drop it in the offering basket at the end of the service. Please have confidence that no one will drop by your home or call you without being asked.

Take advantage of the message notes on the back page of this program. You can use these outline notes to follow along with today’s message.

NEED HELP? HAVE QUESTIONS? LET US KNOW

All of us at LifePointe are here to help you in any way we can. If you need anything or if we can answer your questions, please let us know. Our friendly staff of volunteers stand ready to help you and your family. LifePointe volunteers are available throughout the campus. You can use your LifePointe “WELCOME” card (inside this program) to request help or information about specific ministries and programs offered at LifePointe.

VOLUNTEERS STILL NEEDED IN ANGELPOINTE

August 19, 2012

Awesome Is The Lord Most High

Audience

Open The Eyes Of My Heart Audience

Majesty

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All My Fountains Audience

Message Pastor Chuck Bernal

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God With Us

Reprise Awesome Is The Lord Most High

NEXT SUNDAY – OUR “MESSY” SERIES CONTINUES

Join us next weekend as Pastor Chuck concludes his message series titled, “MESSY”. This series is all about cleaning up some of the

misconceptions and erroneous ideas we have about God, faith and life. Don’t miss Part 5 of this series titled, “A MESSY VIEW OF MONEY”. Please be here and bring a friend!

REACHING OUR COMMUNITY FOR CHRIST

A FASHION STATEMENT - LIFEPOINTE T SHIRTS

Now is the time to get your very own LifePointe T-shirt. It’s a great way to promote our church in a fun and fasionable way. The cost is only $15.00 per shirt - so you can get them for the entire family. You can pay in cash or make a check payable to LifePointe Church. TODAY YOU CAN BUY 2 FOR $25!!

JOIN THE KIDZPOINTE TEAM

The best hour of your kid’s week! That’s how we describe the KidzPointe experience. Each week KidzPointe – our ministry for children in grades 1-6, meets during the 10:30am service and offers Bible-based lessons that are interactive, exciting and

downright fun! The truths of the Bible are taught in a way that kids will remember and apply to their lives throughout the week. Lessons are reinforced creatively through awesome music and worship, drama, crafts, video and dynamic teaching. Because KidzPointe is growing, we are asking for volunteers to step up and serve on a ROTATIONAL BASIS as registration hosts, helpers and teachers. If you are interested in getting more information, please write KIDZPOINTEE on your Welcome Card.

JON WEST’S ORDINATION – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2ND

A MESSY VIEW

OF CHURCH

A messy view of church ____________________________________________ it

instead of ___________________________________ it

Husbands, go all out in your love for your wives, exactly as Christ did for the church—a love marked by giving, not getting. Christ's love makes the church whole. His words evoke her beauty. Everything he does and says is designed to bring the best out of her, dressing her in dazzling white silk, radiant with holiness. (Ephesians 5:25-27 – Msg)

Let us help each other to love others and to do good. Let us not stay away from church meetings. Some people are doing this all the time. (Hebrews 10:24-25 – NLV)

I have come with one purpose to capture for myself a bride By my life she is lovely, by my death she's justified

There is none that can replace her though there are many who will try And though some may be her bridesmaids they can never be my bride

'Cause I haven't come for only you but for my people to pursue You cannot care for me with no regard for her,

if you love me you will love the church (Derek Webb) A messy view of church focuses on “__________________________________”

instead of “__________________________________”

Your body has many parts — but no matter how many parts you can name, you're still one body. It's exactly the same with Christ. By means of his one Spirit, we all said good-bye to our partial and piecemeal lives . . . I want you to think how all this makes you more significant, not less. A body isn't just a single part blown up into something huge. It's all the different - but-similar parts arranged and functioning together . . . The way God designed our bodies is a model for understanding our lives together as a church: every part dependent on every other part . . . If one part hurts, every other part is involved in the hurt, and in the healing. If one part flourishes, every other part enters into the exuberance. You are Christ's body—that's who you are! You must never forget this. Only as you accept your part of that body does your "part" mean anything.

(1 Corinthians 12:12, 14, 25-27 – Msg)

Our bodies have many parts, but these parts don’t all do the same thing. In the same way, even though we are many individuals, Christ makes us one body and individuals who are connected to each other. (Romans 12:4-5 – GWT)

Every church has a choice to be one of two things. You can choose to be a bag of marbles, single units that don’t affect each other except in collision. Or you can choose to be a bag of grapes. The juices begin to mingle, and there is no way to extricate yourselves if you tried. Each is part of all - part of the fragrance - part of the 'stuff'. The early Christians didn’t bounce around like loose marbles, ricocheting in all directions. Picture them as a cluster of ripe grapes, squeezed together by problems, pressures and persecution – bleeding and mingling into one another. (Ann Ortland) A messy view of church settles for _____________________________________

instead of _____________________________________

Two people are better than one, because they get more done by working together. If one falls down, the other can help him up. But it is bad for the person who is alone and falls, because no one is there to help. If two lie down together, they will be warm, but a person alone will not be warm. An enemy might defeat one person, but two people together can defend themselves; a rope that is woven of three strings is hard to break. (Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 – NCV)

The neighborhood bar is possibly the best counterfeit there is to the fellowship Christ wants to give the church. It’s an imitation dispensing liquor instead of grace, escape rather then reality, but it is a permissive, accepting, and inclusive place. It is unshockable, it is democratic. You can tell people your secrets and they usually don’t tell others or even want to. The bar flourishes not because most people are alcoholics, but because God has put into the human heart the desire to know and be known, to love and be loved and so many seek that counterfeit at the price of a few beers. With all my heart I believe that Christ wants His church to be a fellowship where people can come in and say, I’m sunk, I’m beat, I’ve had it.

(Chuck Swindoll)

A messy view of church focuses on being a “____________________________”

instead of being a “_______________________________”

Each of you has been blessed with one of God’s many wonderful gifts to be used in the service of others. So use your gift well. (1 Peter 4:10 – CEV)

In all the work you are doing, work the best you can. Work as if you were doing it for the Lord, not for people . . . You are serving the Lord Christ. (Colossians 3:23-24 – NCV)

There is nothing like the local church when it's working right. Its beauty is indescribable. Its power is breathtaking. Its potential is unlimited. It comforts the grieving and heals the broken in the context of community. It builds bridges to seekers and offers truth to the confused. It provides resources for those in need and opens its arms to the forgotten, the downtrodden, the disillusioned. It breaks the chains of addictions, frees the oppressed, and offers belonging to the marginalized of this world. Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness. Still to this day, the potential of the local church is almost more than I can grasp. No other organization on earth is like the church. Nothing even comes close. (Bill Hybels)

120 S. Crowley Road, Crowley, TX 76036

Voice: 817-886-8486 - Fax: 817-350-4344

Email: office@lifepointechurchfw.com

Chuck Bernal, Lead Pastor

Melora Cranford, KidzPointe - Mike Cranford, LifeGroups

Jon DeGuzman, Worship - Virginia Werlwas, Administration

Debbie West, AngelPointe - Jon West, Students

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