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Welcome to K aruizawa I nternational F ellowship. Praise Music. Offertory prayer. Children's Church With Miss Jodi. Message Time With Craig Cox. It’s ALL about God. The Message. Was jesus the greatest missionary?. What a missionary is: Sent one f By His Father
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Welcome to Karuizawa International Fellowship
Offertory • prayer
Children's Church With Miss Jodi
Message Time With Craig Cox
It’s ALL about God The Message
Was jesus the greatest missionary? What a missionary is: • Sent one f By His Father • Cross cultural f From Heaven to Earth • Usually groundbreaker, originator f Started His Church • A defined ‘mission” f 33 ½ Years The Incarnate Christ
Our task • INCARNATE :Making Jesus Relevant • John 1:14a • "The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.“ • Galatians 2:20 • “…Christ lives IN me…”
What is our mission? Our mission is: For Japanese to see and experience the Incarnate Christ
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men. 5 The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. 11 He came to His own, and those who were His own did not receive Him. 12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. The Word Made Flesh 14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1
Our Approach – Dual Track Message • Same Message as Jesus Christ • What was Christ’s Message? • THE KINGDOM IS COME Method • Same Method as Jesus Christ
John 7:16 So Jesus answered them and said, "(A)My teaching is not Mine, but His who sent Me. Message of Jesus THE KINGDOM HAS COME. God came and dwelt among us (in Christ) and we beheld Him Our Message THE KINGDOM HAS COME Christ came and solved the sin problem that kept God our of Man and now we can have God in us. GOD HAS COME TO DWELL IN US
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13 “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men. 14 “You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven Matthew 5
33"No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead he puts it on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light. 34Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are good, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are bad, your body also is full of darkness. 35See to it, then, that the light within you is not darkness. Luke 11
Kingdom awareness awareness the we are instruments of war and defeat is not an option • Pay attention this week to the strategies of Satan. In your own life, in your families life, in society. Develop a “play book” of Satan’s strategies • Glory moments • The resources are all available to you • The battle has already been won Applications for today
There's a line that is drawn through the ages On that line stands an old rugged cross On that cross, a battle is raging To gain a man's soul or it's loss On one side, march the forces of evil All the demons, all the devils of hell On the other, the angels of glory And they meet on Golgotha's hill The earth shakes with the force of the conflict And the sun refuses to shine For there hangs God's son, in the balance And then through the darkness he cries
It is finished, the battle is over It is finished, there'll be no more war It is finished, the end of the conflict It is finished and Jesus is Lord
Yet in my heart, the battle was still raging Not all prisoners of war had come home These were battlefields of my own making I didn't know that the war had been won Oh, but then I heard the king of the ages Had fought all the battles for me And that victory was mine for the claiming And now praise his name, I am free