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Mt. PleasantUnited Methodist Church

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Religion feels like this…

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Faith like this….

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Welcome to

Mt. Pleasant

United Methodist Church

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I am a

Child of God

I know it. I live it. I love it!

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As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen.

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“Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.” At once they left their nets and followed him.

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Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John. They were in a boat with their father Zebedee, preparing their nets.

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Jesus called them, and immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him.

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I believe Faith is UNAVOIDABLE

“When we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.”

G. K. Chesterton

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Four idols of this age…POWER

I need to know I am in safePRIVILEGE

I need to know I have valuePOPULARITY

I need to know I matterPOSSESSIONS

I need to achieve

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FAITH is HARDER than we like!

If you find God with ease, perhaps it is not God you have found. – T. Merton

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FAITH is CAUGHT more than TAUGHT

If we live with integrity, nothing else matters.

If we don’t live with integrity, nothing else matters.

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"There is only one way to bring up a child in the way he should go and that is to travel that way yourself."

— Abraham Lincoln

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Church is not just a place we go, it’s who you become.

Faith is…

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I share it!