Great Day at Faith

We had a great day today at Faith. No announcements, no wasted time it was great. The Praise Team did a fantastic job, at 10:45 they started right in to worship, I hope to be able to put a sample on the web soon! Then we worship through Word, we have started seeing the whole service as worship(worship through music, through Word, through prayer, commitment and worship through giving) with no order of service. It is very liberating to consider everything we do worship. That way it allows us to do away with somethings that just don't matter. Our text was Ezra 9:1-5 and 10:1-3. The theme was being a true God-follower. In Ezra the Hebrews had been led back home, were unified in purpose, and had the foundations of God's Word given to them. Now when it had come to light that they had disobeyed God by intermarrying (its not a color thing its a belief thing) what would they do? I see the Church itself in this state, what will we do? The Hebrews gave up their wives and children to be obedient to God? So we asked ourselves today is God worth our obedience? Will we give up those things that keep us from being obedient.? Many times no we rely on the compassion and love of God to cover our disobedience. The reason? We have made Jesus a slot machine instead of King. If we recognize Jesus as King we will obey Him with reverence and awe and love, not for what He can get us. After the service we ate and then sang. A great day at Faith!