TODAY:TODAY:

Ministry Leaders Meeting

After Service – Room 1 Membership Class Tonight

6pm – 207 Radcliff Drive

Ultimate Frisbee – June 9

Mosley Field at Nyack College

9:00pm

Jr/Sr HighYouth

Prayer Walk – June 10

Next Sunday Right After The Service

Next Sunday Right After The Service

June 10 7 - 8:30pm

Evening ServiceHearing the Voice of the Father:

Discernment in Community

All-Church PicnicJune 2412:15 pm

WHEN THE SPIRIT EMPOWERS

JOHN 14

Dr. Martin SandersLiving Christ Church

June 2012

Resources Beyond Your Own Em-POWER-ment

•Strength

•Courage

•Hope

•Power

One Minute Manager

Empowerment takes

more than a minute!

Greater things you will do than I have done…

Because I go to the Father.

John 14:12

John 14

•V.1-2 Trust in God – also in Me

•V.3 Preparing a “Mansion” for You

•V.6 “I am the Way…”

•V.12 You will do greater things…

•V.15-31 The Promise of the Holy Spirit

Jesus’ Discipleship Model,

Spirit’s Resourcing of your Life,

Father’s Gift to You,

EMPOWERMENT

Empowered By The Spirit

•Strength, Hope, Courage, Power, ________

•Gifts & Fruitfulness

•Freshness & Anointing

•Love, Joy, Peace, and More

Dream / Think Big

•Self-Imposed Limitations

•More than Human Motivation

•John 14

•Belief – Active – Trust – Destiny – EMPOWERMENT

Incorporating

•Belief / Trust & ACTION

•Confidence / Courage & RISK

•RISK & Trust Him!

Greater Things

•Personal – not exclusively personal

•Corporate Sense – “Together we can see the breadth of the Jesus Effect. Collectively it becomes our culture.”

•Because I go to the Father.

Challenge one another to love and good deeds.

Greater Things“Taking it to the Streets”

• The Jesus Model: Relationships, Discipleship, Empowerment, Kingdom

• Inside and Beyond the Walls of the Church

• Holy Spirit

• Corporate Discernment

• “The Color Orange”

• Street Address – “Thomas”

Empowerment Prayer Model•What do you want Jesus to do for you?

•Listen

•What do you need to leave behind?

•What do you want the Father to give you?

What the Spirit wants to do IN YOU…

What the Spirit wants to do THROUGH YOU…

DREAM…