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Make Friends to Make DisciplesRICK WARREN
“Be friendly with everyone. Don’t be proud and feel that you are smarter than others. Make friends with ordinary people” (Romans 12:16 CEV)
Everybody’s looking for a true friend - not just acquaintances but people who are there with you when you need them most. God wants you to build true friendships with the people that are already in your life so that you
Church Members DatesThursday 9th June
Special Church Members Meeting Cuffley Campus @ 7.30pm
At this meeting the Leadership Team will recommend the appointment of an additional Pastor with a Focus on Youth & Community from the candidates who have visited us.
Sunday 25th September AGM after morning service @ Cuffley.
UPDATE ON RECRUITMENTBy 5th June many of you will had a chance to hear or meet our 3 shortlisted candidates. Please let the Leadership know if you have any feedback. As mentioned above, the matter will be progressed at our Special Members Meeting on Thursday 9th June.
Phillip on SattabticalEvery seven years pastors are given 3 months sabbatical leave. Phillip will be taking his during July & August and then in January.
can share the Gospel with them. God has put these people - your co-workers and classmates, neighbours and teammates - in your life specifically so you can share with them about the most important decision they will ever make. If you don’t tell them about what Christ has done for them, then who will?
The Bible says in Romans 12:16, “Be friendly with everyone. Don’t be proud and feel that you are smarter than others. Make friends with ordinary people” (CEV).
Christians tend to fall into one of two extremes: isolation or imitation. Some Christians say, “I don’t want to get polluted by the world. I’m just going to isolate myself. I’ll build a wall and my own little culture.”
Isolation doesn’t work! How are you going to build any friendships that way?
The other extreme is imitation, which says, “Let’s be just like the world. We’ll dress like the latest pop star. We’ll say whatever we want about other people. We’ll have whatever values and goals popular culture tells us we should have. We’ll be no different from the world.”
That’s not what God wants you to be, either. He doesn’t want you to give in to the lowest common denominators of society.
The answer is not isolation or imitation. It’s insulation and infiltration. The Bible says you’re to be salt and light in the world. You’re to penetrate the world with God’s
goodness.
When I go out to dinner and order sea bass, the first thing I have to do before I can eat it is put salt on it. That fish has lived its entire life in salt water, yet I have to put salt on it. What’s going on? That fish is insulated. If God can take a fish and keep it in salt water its entire life and not have the salt permeate the fish, then certainly God can take any believer, put us in the world, and keep us from being corrupted by the wrong values.
God wants you to be holy and secure in your faith. He also wants you to walk out your door into the world and get to know the people he’s placed in your life. As you build relationships with people around you and share Truth with them, you are to be in the world but not of the world.
“The Holy Spirit, God’s gift, does not want you to be afraid of people but to be wise and strong and to love them and enjoy being with them” (2 Timothy 1:7 TLB).
Talk It Over• Why is it sometimes easier to
isolate ourselves rather than get to know other people on a deeper level?
• What are some ways you have fallen into the trap of becoming an imitator of the world?
• If you were the only representation of Jesus Christ that someone had in his or her life, how would they perceive Christianity? How does that make you want to change?
Sunday Services - Junepotters bar campus
10.00 am (Coffee from 9.45 am)
Oakmere Community CentreFetherstone Close, Potters Bar, EN6 5NS
Note: Pre-service prayer meeting from 9.30 - 9.45 am.
cuffley campus
11.00 am (Coffee from 10.30 am)
King James Avenue, Cuffley, EN6 4LN
Note: Pre-service prayer meeting from 10.30 - 10.45 am.5th
Multigenerational Worship- Led by Roger Taylor.
12th
ACTS Life in the SPIRIT: 16. Power Evangelism (Acts 9:32-42) - John Hyde
19th
Communion & Shared Lunch - Led by Roger Taylor
26th
ACTS Life in the SPIRIT: 17. Facts of Life (Acts 10)
5th
MULTIPLY: 1. Be Disciples Make Disciples (Matthew 28:16-20)NOTE - 5.00pm EXTRA SERVICEwith a visiting preacher
12th
ACTS Life in the SPIRIT: 16. Power Evangelism (Acts 9:32-42) (Baptism)
19th
ENCOUNTER Service
26th
ACTS Life in the SPIRIT: 17. Facts of Life (Acts 10)
Life Church:• God Centred • Purpose Driven • People Empowering • Multi- campus
Our Current Sermon Series SUNDAY 5th JUNEExtra Worship Service5pm @ Cuffley Campuswith a visiting preacher
Note: This is a joint service for both of our campuses. Please make every effort to attend.
Life Group Study Material
After Jesus rose from the grave, He left His followers with a simple command: “Go into all the world and make disciples” (see Matthew 28:19). Most Christians today are not known for making disciples, preferring to sit back and enjoy “church” from a comfortable distance. This is not what God intends for His church Multiply is designed as a simple resource that you can use to begin making disciples.
Part I & II of the Multiply Material is available on the
church web site:www.lifechurch.uk.com
If you would like a printed version of this material, please let Phillip know.
This Life Group material fits in with the “ACTS: Life in the Spirit” Sermon Series currently running.
As you work through these six sessions there is one question that will bubble away in your small group study and discussion: “Jesus, how may we love our community in such a way that it shows what you are like?”
We start in Acts chapter 8:1, around seven years after Jesus uttered: Acts 1:8: “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
You may have been a Christian for many years and wondered how you may proactively share your faith with those around you, but have lacked the courage to speak of the good news of Jesus. If so, then you are in good company. After Jesus instructed His disciples to go, they stayed!
It was only when persecution of the Church started that the disciples in Jerusalem were scattered. Just as well really, otherwise the best news this world has ever been graced with would have remained a secret in a small city for a select few!
Session One: Can our community be loved? (Acts 8:1-8)
Session Two: Good news for each person (Acts 8:26-40)
Session Three: Having a Heart for our neighbourhood (Acts 9:10-19)
Session Four: What could God do in your community? (Acts 9:32-43)
Session Five: Doing a new thing! (Acts 10:19-30)
Session Six: What will you do to show others that they are known and loved? (Acts 11:19-30)
Note: This material can be downloaded at: www.lifechurch.uk.com. Printed copies are also available.
There is no space this month to include this section. It will return in our July/August edition. Let Phillip Coffin know if you would like to be included in the future.
Our Vision Statement:“To Grow through Living Out the Great Commandment and the Great Commission”
SPRING HARVEST 2017MINEHEAD WEEK 1 – 4-8 APRIL
A church holiday is being arranged for next year at Spring Harvest. If you are interested, please have a look on the Spring Harvest website for further information (http://www.springharvest.org). There are various different types of accommodation/self-catering and half-board options available so please have a look and decide what will work for your party. Booking forms are now available (on the welcome desk at Cuffley campus or please email [email protected] and I will send you the form). The deposit required will be £35 per adult and £20 per child (plus any insurance taken), with the balance being payable a minimum of 56 days before arrival. There is a £15 per person discount available for early booking. If you would like to be part of our group booking, please let Debbie Chisholm have your completed booking form and deposit cheque (made payable to “Life Church”) by Wednesday, 8 June, 2016.
New Venture!
Regular Events
Monday’s during term time1.30 til 3 pm - Church Sanctuary8 til 9.30 pm - Rainbow RoomContact: Audrey Croll
Mother & Toddler GroupTuesdays (Term Time)1 - 2.45 pm @ Cuffley Campus£2 per familyContact: Sandy Harvey
Tuesday 7.00 pm - Ark RoomThursday 9.30 am - Ark RoomContact: Amanda Beeton (Tuesday) & Isabelle Clark (Thursday)
Thursday 2nd June1.00 - 2.15 pm (Rainbow Room)
BREADBible Readings Explained And Discussed
Singingfor Fun
HOLIDAY CLUBGoffs Oak Methodist Holiday Club
Ages 5-11 August 15 - 19
Please could you collect any Persil liquid clothes washing measuring cups for us as a craft at the holiday club and give them to Gill Chuchla.Thank you.
PricelessBringing life andhope to trafficked girls
Featuring Jessica Gunjal.This is an opportunity to hear first hand about how girls are finding hope in the midst of one of the largest Red Light Areas in the world.
Life Church (Cuffley Campus)Wednesday 15th June @ 7.45pmNote: This is a joint campus event, simi-lar in nature to a previous one we ran about Northern Nigeria.
Special Events
Ladies DaySaturday 2nd July
A sign up sheet is available in lobby.
More details to follow.
Annual Men Only BBQ Saturday 2nd July
17.00 - 21.00pm
33 St Vincents Way, Potters Bar
See William Wong for more details.
Wednesday @ 8.15 pm (Rainbow Room)If you would like to receive personal prayer then please come along and speak to us, you will be welcome.Contact Fran Warboys
Coffee Morning
Fridays (Term Time)10.00 am - 12 noon Cuffley CampusContact: Audrey Croll
For youth at secondary school.Friday 8 - 9.30 pm @ Life Church, CuffleyTerm Time OnlyContact: Helen Houghton
PUB LUNCHFriday 17th June12.30 pm @The WheelwrightsJust turn up. We’d love to see you!Contact: Audrey Croll or Pat Roser.
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Goffs Lane, Goffs OakEN7 5EP
POTTERS BAR Prayer MeetingEvery Wednesday
9 - 10 pm(After the Bible Study)
Various venues: See William & Betty Wong for more details.
Wednesday 15th JuneFor more details please contact Audrey Croll
26th June - 7-8pm@ Cuffley Campus
Contact: Paul Harvey
FriendsWalks GROUP
Blaze 4:16 & Potters Bar FoodbankEvery Saturday12noon - 2pm
Wayside Jubilee CentreWayside, Potters Bar EN6 5NESee Esther Tam for more details.
Life Church Web Site:www.lifechurch.uk.com
Life ChurchKing James Avenue, Cuffley, EN6 4LN01707 [email protected]
Phillip Coffin01707 875106 [email protected]
Gavin Chisholm 01992 448131 [email protected]
Mary Gregory 01707 873859 [email protected]
John Hyde 01707 888017 [email protected]
William Wong01707 658612 [email protected]
Diane Gilbert01707 895101 [email protected]
Derek Gregory01707 873859 [email protected]
Julia Ellis-Hall01707 894646 [email protected]
Helen Houghton (Children’s Worker) 01992 538040 [email protected]
Carol Coffin (Potters Bar Campus) 01707 875106 [email protected]
Paul Harvey (Part Time Pastor & Worship Team Leader)07976 633998 [email protected]
Jenny Campbell07720 838805 [email protected]
Alison Hockney???? ???? [email protected]
Esther Tam 01992 622100 [email protected]
Fran Worboys07930 542188 [email protected]
Gavin & Debbie Chisholm 01992 448131 [email protected]
Esther Tam 01992 622100 [email protected]
Kathy Hillier 01707 653646 [email protected]
Church Office
Minister
Elders
Deacons
Youth & Children
Worship Team (Cuffley)
Worship (Potters Bar)
Prayer Ministry Team
Encounter (Cuffley)
Food Bank & Blaze 4:16
Contacts
