NEW SERIES!!!

Yo whatsup JR High! This is Doug here ( I am the guy in the flannel trying to protect Jay) to remind you guys that starting this Sunday February 21, 2010 we will be starting our new series ALL-IN! I’m so incredibly excited to see what God is going to do in all of our hearts through this series and I want to give you a little preview of what we will be talking about!

Throughout the series, we are going to be going through the Gospel of Mark. This Gospel is unique, because it focuses mainly on what Jesus did rather then what he said. It was written to a group of Christians who lived in Rome and were being persecuted for their faith in Jesus. Rome was similar to our culture today in America, because it was the most powerful and prominent place in the world. Christianity was seen as a threat to change the way things are and since the Romans were afraid of that they tried to persecute the Christians and eliminate the Church.

Like the people who originally received this Gospel, we are often persecuted for our faith, and we are constantly bombarded with the idea that people should live to please themselves as much as they possibly can and everything should always be about ME! Which is very contradictory to what the Bible says! So for the next few months we will be talking about going ALL-IN for Christ, and looking at how we as Christians should be giving every part of our lives to God so that way he can use them to bless other people!

Mark 8:34-35 “If anyone would come after me(Jesus), he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it.”