Good News!
Isaiah 35

We have developed gospels of sin management.
- Dallas Willard

You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life. John 5:39-40

Good News!
Psalm 16:11
Psalm 42:1-2
Psalm 63:1
I Samuel 13:14
I John 5:12

Christianity: the pursuit of life!
The way it was meant to be!

Our Ministry - To be about the Father's Business

• To God - as His priests
• • Ministry to the Lord = Worship
• To His saints - as His servants
• • Ministry to the Church = Service
• To His world - as His prophets
• • Ministry to the World = Reconciliation

Ephesians 4
Ephesians 4:1-3 ~ Therefore, act accordingly!
~ Walk in a manner worthy of your calling!
~ Be diligent (work hard) at preserving the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace
Ephesians 4:4-11 ~ Paul clarifies the doctrine from which we derive our calling
Ephesians 4:11-16 ~ Purpose

Not by wrestling, but by clinging, shall we be most blessed. Wrestling only brings us sorrow; clinging brings us rest. When we stay our feeble efforts and from struggling cease, unconditional surrender brings us God's own peace. - Oswald Chambers

Fresh Fire - New Beginning

Special Guest Tommy Tenney helps Cornerstone Community Church celebrate our 8th Anniversary.

Vision

History

Tooled Up
Equipped For Ministry
Ephesians 3 ~ 4

Mystery ~ Ephesians 3:8-10

• Defined:
• • Something that is not fully understood or that baffles or eludes the understanding; an enigma.
  • A religious truth that is incomprehensible to the reason and knowable only through divine revelation.

Throughout our lives we are either growing closer to God or further from Him. - C.S. Lewis

• The Answering Theology
• • The world asks - theology answers!
  • Forcing the concern for "relevance" (felt needs)
  • BUT - The world doesn't know the right questions!!!
• The unfathomable riches of Christ
• Bringing the mystery to light
• • I Corinthians 4:1 "Stewards of the mysteries"
  • God's manifold wisdom revealed "access"
  • Avenue of the "church" to all authorities
• God's eternal purpose carried out in Christ.

Mystery ~ Enlightened eyes - Life

• Psalm 89:15 "Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound! They walk, O LORD, in the light of Your countenance."
• Psalm 36:9 "For with You is the fountain of life; In Your light we see light."
• I John 1:5-7 "This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin."
• Luke 11:34-36 "The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore, when your eye is good, your whole body also is full of light. But when your eye is bad, your body also is full of darkness. Therefore take heed that the light which is in you is not darkness. If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, the whole body will be full of light, as when the bright shining of a lamp gives you light."
• II Corinthians 3:18 "But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord."

Apostolic Prayer ~ Ephesians 3:14-21

• That you be strengthened through the power of His Spirit in your spirit.
• That Christ might dwell in your hearts through faith.
• That you be rooted and grounded in love.
• That you know the love of Christ - with the saints - breadth, length, height, depth
• That you be filled up with the fullness of God.

Our Ministry - The Father's Business

• To God - as His priests
• • Ministry to the Lord = Worship
• To His saints - as His servants
• • Ministry to the Church = Service
• To His world - as His prophets
• • Ministry to the World = Reconciliation

Spiritual Service of Worship

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. - Romans 12:1-2