Finding Your Purpose And Passion

Petra Church

Finding Your Purpose And Passion

Part 1

September 24, 2017 • Lester Zimmerman

As Pastors, we have been looking forward to this ALL IN Series. It’s going to be both challenging and fun. This is a great follow up to the Acts 29 series where we looked at the lives of the believers in the early church and how they lived their lives with this sense of total abandonment to God.
We believe by the end of this series, as we go ALL IN in a fresh new way, we will be transformed one again – from glory to glory he is changing us to be more like Jesus.
• As we together, explore what a fully surrendered life looks like I believe we will experience God’s pleasure on our lives in a new way.
• In this series, the purposes of God will become more clear and active in your life.
• You will become bolder and more daring in pursuing God’s call on your life.
• You will find your life increasingly centering more around Jesus then yourself.
• We will discover what some people call radical is really normal New Testament Christianity.
• You will become more extravagant like your Heavenly Father.
• And - You will find the Christian life is anything but boring when you are ALL IN with God.

Lifestyle Christianity

October 29, 2017 • Lester Zimmerman

Today is the last part of our ALL IN series. We have been exploring what it means to go all in with God. What it means to be fully surrendered to Him. The sad reality is that it is possible for us to go to church every week and never go ALL IN with Jesus. That’s called religion and there is no life or power in it. The Christian life is meant to be so much more than that. God wants us to live by faith - not fear, play offense - not defense, use all we got, holding nothing back, being surrendered fully to his purpose in our lives. We don’t just add Jesus to our lives like another friend on Facebook. Jesus calls his followers to abandon all to him, go all-in, give it all up. You see, Christianity is more of a way of life then a belief system. We are called “followers of Jesus” which means we follow his example, his teachings, his moral code, his daily direction in our lives. We are to make our faith our lifestyle not just a Sunday morning experience! We are - Empowered by God for daily encounters. Following Jesus is not easy, but it is fulfilling with eternal rewards. Going ALL IN means different things to different people. In this series we tried not to create a rigid definition of what it means to go ALL IN. Instead we asked a key question each week to challenge our hearts. Today’s question is: Is my devotion to God consistent and enduring?

Generous Living

October 22, 2017 • Brian Flewelling

This is week five of our All-IN Teaching Series. The gospel of Jesus is a radical re-alteration of our lifestyles. If you start following Jesus you quickly realize “I can’t go on with life as usual.” To help you evaluate your own life and commitment to Jesus we wanted to give you a set of questions. The questions we asked so far have been: ➢ Week 1: Am I living to please God, or myself? (Heart Attitudes) ➢ Week 2: Have I given all to God, or am I holding something back? (Practical) ➢ Week 3: Am I living by faith in what God can do, or in fear of what I might lose? (Intensity & audacity of faith) ➢ Week 4: Am I using what I have to glorify God? (Practicality & Devotion) ➢ Week 5: Am I generous in life, or reluctant in giving? (Generosity & joy of faith) The shape of the gospel is the shape of generosity. If you want to know what generosity looks like look at Jesus. He had mad talent. But he chose to give himself constantly to the needs and the development of the people around him. “This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us.” 1 John 3:16. If we’re becoming like God then we’re becoming generous people like Jesus.

Use What You Have

October 15, 2017 • Patrick Thuo

Pastor Patrick Thuo, leader of the Hopewell Network in Kenya, brings us Part 4 of our All In Series with the message entitled "Use What You Have".