The Church’s approach to an intelligent carpenter is usually confined to exhorting him not to be drunk and disorderly in his leisure hours, and to come to church on Sundays. What the Church should be telling him is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables.

Church by all means, and decent forms of amusement, certainly – but what use is all that if in the very center of his life and occupation he is insulting God with bad carpentry? No crooked table legs or ill-fitting drawers ever, I dare swear, came out of the carpenter’s shop at Nazareth. Nor, if they did, could anyone believe that they were made by the same hand that made Heaven and earth. No piety in the worker will compensate for work that is not true to itself; for any work that is untrue to its own technique is a living lie.

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[The Church] has lost all sense of the fact that the living and eternal truth is expressed in work only so far as that work is true in itself, to itself, to the standards of its own technique. She has forgotten that the secular vocation is sacred. Forgotten that a building must be good architecture before it can be a good church; that a painting must be well painted before it can be a good sacred picture; that work must be good work before it can call itself God’s work.

–Dorothy Sayers

Matthew 22: “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” ³⁷And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. ³⁸This is the great and first commandment. ³⁹And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.“

and Matthew 28:
“All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

These words of Jesus drive us toward:
1.) Worship (Sunday mornings AND 24/7)
2.) Nurture (loving our neighbor in Christ Community: fellowship, learning, et al)
3.) Outreach (loving our neighbor beyond CCC: local & global; personal & corporate; word & deed)

ALSO: Do NOT forget to participate in the 10am hour.  Good stuff!

Ministry Vision 2011-2012| 10 am Sunday August 28

Please plan to attend two presentations. 

In the sanctuary
10:05-10:25 Nate Taylor, Youth Minister
10:30-10:50 Holli Best and Harmony Smith, Children’s Ministry Directors

 Adult classroom 1
10:05-10:25 Frank Matthews,  Community Groups
10:30-10:50  Melissa Mageroy and Lierra Longstreet, Crossroads

 Adult classroom 2
10:05-10:25  Rob Pendley, Larry Eubanks, Mark Sheplak, Men’s Ministry
10:30-10:50 Christina Fischer, Kathy French, Sharon Stankunas, Women’s Ministry

Shout out to Volta, who helped us by selling us coffee at cost.