WHERE FUNCTION AND MISSION MEET- DON’T WAIT FOR FUNCTION TO DO MISSION We are dysfunctional- DYS-SATISFIED DYS-STRESSED DYS-APPOINTED DYS-COURAGED Don’t confuse simple with easy. ALL FUNCTION STARTS WITH THE TRUTH. 1.THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD. “You shall have no other gods before Me. EX. 20:3 PHILOSOPHER PETER KREEFT-The opposite of theism(belief in God) is not atheism, it is idolatry. “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me,The fountain of living waters, To hew for themselves cisterns,Broken cisterns that can hold no water. Jeremiah 2:13 Bible (NASB) 2.THE TRUTH ABOUT YOU “ Do not be shaped by this world; instead be changed within by a new way of thinking. Then you will be able to decide what God wants for you; you will know what is good and pleasing to him and what is perfect.” Romans 12: 2 [NCV] 3.THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIBLE So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind…EPHESIANS 4:17 Your word is a doorway that lets in light,and it helps gullible people understand. Psalm 119:130(GW) 4.THE TRUTH ABOUT HARD TIMES He comes alongside us when we go through hard times, and before you know it, he brings us alongside someone else who is going through hard times so that we can be there for that person just as God was there for us.2 CORINTHIANS 1:4 5.THE TRUTH ABOUT THE CHURCH Make this your common practice: Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you can live together whole and healed. The prayer of a person living right with God is something powerful to be reckoned with. JAMES 5:16-18 SIN CERA- LATIN-without wax.

So let’s do it—full of belief, confident that we’re presentable inside and out. Let’s keep a firm grip on the promises that keep us going. He always keeps his word. Let’s see how inventive we can be in encouraging love and helping out, not avoiding worshiping together as some do but spurring each other on, especially as we see the big Day approaching. Hebrews 10:22- (MSG)