Faith Mountain Ben Todd

Our fourth and final Sunday in the I ❤️ My Church series is less a Sunday message and more of a Faith Mountain family conversation. The discussion focuses on what God has planned for the future of HIS Church.

The Church is one body with many parts. OUR Church is one part of THE Church - the global body of Christ. OUR Church is made up of people who, if you've accepted Christ, are part of the body of Christ. The third sermon in this series focuses on OUR Church and it's purpose, and how it impacts our people and our community.

Our teaching passage today - 1 Peter 2:9-12 - calls us "a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession." We are who we are because of "whose" we are! In the 2nd sermon in 'I "Heart" My Church' we discover how to find our identity.

Bill Hybels once said, "the local church is the hope of the world". That's a pretty bold statement, almost arrogant. But it's only arrogant if it's not true. When we understand that THE Church is the only entity in the entire world getting the word our about the cure for death, seeing it as the hope of the world makes perfect sense.

Virtually everyone has said "I wish I had more time ..." to whatever: rest, read, spend time with family, etc. But the truth is that we all have time for what we choose to have time for. In our fourth and final sermon in our I Choose series, the subject is choosing what is important over what is urgent.

John 16:33 says, "In this world, you will have trouble." The reality is that we will all experience pain in our lives. Some of this pain is beyond our control. In our third week of the I Choose series, we look at the pain that we can avoid by applying discipline to our lives.