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January 24, 2010 - re:CREATE #4:

Set on Fire!

Core Ideas: Set on Fire-- Ephesians 5:17-21; 6:18-20; Acts 4:23-31; John 14-16; . Please notice the key songs listed below: all three can bevery important in our service this week, although I'm not sure we know the last one.

Brief overview of the last two weeks to get folks connected: The last two weeks, we have looked at releasing the Holy Spirit into our lives individually and as a church. Confessing Christ as Lord and being baptized opens the door for God to give us His Spirit. We can now ask God to send us the Holy Spirit to help us in times we need Him most. In addition, we can pray for the Holy Spirit to fill, empower, and comfort those we love -- this is something Paul did and showed us how to do. As we do this and focus on Jesus, we are going to be conformed to His character and compassion by the Holy Spirit.

  • Today, we want recognize that the Holy Spirit is in us to lead and guide us, comfort us, gift us, and empower us. We often underestimate the importance of these promises. Jesus stresses to His apostles, and through them He stresses them to us, that it is to our advantage that He goes back to the Father so that He can send the Spirit! To be honest, I'm not sure we believe Him. But when we see that each of these is important to us individually and as we live together in community and they are promised to us through the Holy Spirit, the Comforter and Counselor of God, then we have a better understanding why this is true! The Holy Spirit living in us does the following things for us:
    • Lead and Guide (conscience, conviction, providence, & direction)
    • Comfort and Encourage (strengthening and ministry to our Spirit)
    • Gifts us to Serve (gifts to be used in the Body of Christ)
    • Empower us to live (power to overcome sin, power to serve, power to speak with boldness)
  • But how do we partner with the Holy Spirit so that these things can happen?
    • Genuine Public & Private Worship in Song & Thanksgiving (Ephesians 5:17-19)
    • Daily Submission in Relationships (Ephesians 5:20; cf. Philippians 2:5-11)
    • Praying boldly in the Spirit (Ephesians 6:18-20; Romans 8:26-29; cf. Acts 4:23-31)
    • Commitment to be convicted through scripture (Ephesians 6:17; John 16:7-11; Hebrews 4:12-13; 1 Corinthians 2)

Time in the Word Focus:

  • The last three weeks, we were challenged to begin praying for the Holy Spirit to come into our lives personally (Luke 11:13) and to begin praying for others in our family, church family, and those we love for the Holy Spirit to be present and strengthen them with might. In addition, we want to focus our hearts and lives on Jesus -- to know Him better and be conformed to Him in our character and compassion knowing as we do this, the Spirit will be at work to make it so.
  • Today, we want to look at the promise of the Holy Spirit in us means to us, what it means to be Set on Fire! We also want to look at the ways we can partner with the Holy Spirit to do this work in our lives!

Key SoHills Emphasis:

We are building a strategy for bringing the vitality and power of the Holy Spirit back into our lives personally and individually.

    • We are going to emphasize the gift of the Holy Spirit that comes to us at baptism, knowing salvation is more than waiting for something to happen when we die, it is something we experience through the Holy Spirit when we come to Christ. (Acts 2:38-39; Titus 3:3-7)
    • The Luke 11:13 promise, that if we ask the Father for the Holy Spirit, He will give the Spirit to us
    • The Ephesians 3:14-21 prayer for our church, family, and each other expecting God to release His power in us!
    • The promise of 2 Corinthians 3:18 (and Galatians 5) is that as we focus on Jesus and seek to follow Him, the Holy Spirit conforms us to be like Him -- bringing His character qualities to maturity in us!
    • Worshipping in song and thanksgiving turns loose the power of the Holy Spirit to fill us! (Ephesians 5:17-29)
    • Submitting to others to honor Jesus as Lord turns loose the power of the Holy Spirit in us (Ephesians 2:20; Philippians 2:5-11)
    • Praying boldly in the Spirit turns loose the power of the Holy Spirit in our prayer life, both for us and for others (Ephesians 6:18-20; Jude 20-21; Romans 8:26-29)
    • Submitting ourselves to the Holy Spirit's work through the Scriptures (Ephesians 6:17; Hebrews 4:12-13; 2 Timothy 3:14-17; 1 Corinthians 2)

Key Passages:

To the experience of the Spirit's presence, we will focus this week on several key passages: 2 Corinthians 3:18; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Romans 8 & Galatians 5:22-27 along with 1 Corinthians 6:19-20.

Suggested Songs:

  • Revive Us Again (We Praise Thee O God)
  • Send Your Rain O Lord
  • Revive Us O Lord

Drama, Media, & Connecting Pieces:

  • Pre-video:
  • Video Piece: TBD
    • Direction
  • Scripture readings
    • John 16:1-15
  • Key focus of the Time in the Word
    • Key Ideas
      • Point

Daybreak Planning Team: Marilyn Trabold, Joy Moudy

Refresh Planning Team: Sam Souder

Sundown: From Max Lucado's Traveling Light

    1. Theme: The Prison of Want: The Burden of Discontent – Psalm 23:1
    2. Speaker: Danny Minton
    3. Worship Leader: Wade Huggins